Connections - Spring 2014

Connections Ro l a n d Pa r k C o u n t ry S c h o o l

Spring 2014

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Explore Who You Are at RPCS

by Bracken Woolley, 2014

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Fabulous at 50 – 50th Anniversary of Cum Laude

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abulous at 50 – Celebrating 50 Years of F Admission for Qualified Students

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#Bring Back Our Girls - Commentary

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by Jean Waller Brune and Dr. Kelly V. Phelan, 1998

8 Ashlee in Action

by Kim Daly

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10 Alumnae Association Awards Prestigious

McCauley Bowl to Laurie McCulloch Fisher, 1963

by Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993, Alumnae Association President

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Why I Give

by Sally Foley, 1956

14 Remembering Dr. Rhoda M. Dorsey, HA 9

15 Remembering Sidney Silber

Connections is published annually for the Roland Park Country School community.

Head of School: Jean Waller Brune Editor/Assistant Head of School for External Relations: Nancy Mugele Director of Integrated Media Strategies: Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998 Assistant Director of Communication: Sarah Cody Communication Associate: Kim Daly Proofreaders: Missie Dix Mack, Director of Alumnae Relations, Katy Spencer, 1994 Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations Designer: Paul Miller, Freefall Design

Departments 2 Headlines 18

Alumnae Class Notes

114 New Babies in the RPCS Family 116 Memorials

Printing: Diversified Printing

Front Cover: The Class of 2014 at the Opening Convocation

At Roland Park Country School, An Education Above is personified by an extraordinary group of women – our students and our alumnae. Each is committed to a lifelong journey of excellence, purpose and service first nurtured and cultivated in the classrooms and laboratories, on the fields and courts, and in the studios and on the stage of RPCS through all these years.

To be successful in today’s challenging and changing world, students must be equipped with skills in solution finding (not just problem solving) and deep inquiry. Their future, in any field, depends on the ability to build bridges among diverse groups, work as a team and think creatively.

In the STEM Institute this spring, juniors Meredith Kuser and Grace Laria were selected to present their research paper at the 24th Annual Maryland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. Influences on Nitrate Leaching in the Soils of an Eastern Deciduous Forest: A Case Study examined a possible cause for the steadily declining nitrate levels found in one of the Environmental Science Summer Research Experience for Young Women’s microclimate research sites. In addition, two ninth graders were selected to attend a poster session presenting their research from fall semester. Sally Askew and Lexi Orlinsky authored The Effects of White Noise on Short Term Memory which explored how white noise can positively or negatively impact one’s ability to recall a sequence of colors. Hailey Morris and Marianna Salvatori authored Cell Phone Notification Impact on Short Term Memory which explored how iPhone ringtone and vibrational notification signals can positively or negatively impact one’s ability to recall a sequence of letters.

RPCS alumnae across the country and the globe make us so very proud of the teaching and learning that we offer here. This January, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright returned to her alma mater to meet with 40 promising Wellesley College students selected as this year’s Albright Fellows. Alexandra Day, 2011, a junior at Wellesley and one of the participants, said: As a Physics major with a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary interests, I hope that the Albright Institute will allow me to explore the intersection between global affairs and science. I am confident that it will inspire me to become a

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more engaged scientist, citizen and leader, both within my community and the world at large.”

Dr. Kelly Virginia Phelan, 1998 is a Fulbright Scholar and professor of tourism at the University of Botswana.

While she resides in Africa, she still keeps a close eye on RPCS. She read my Commentary in The Sun in early May about the Bring Back Our Girls campaign and wrote to me. “Your article actually inspired me to write a piece for The Sun. It discussed Bring Back Our Girls, and shared my experiences in Africa and the fact that the gender gap is so extreme here. I think the students would find the narrative eye-opening and a sign to appreciate the nation and time in which they have been raised.”

Each of these amazing Roland Parkers, past and present, share an enduring bond: a lifelong quest for knowledge, a gift of personal inquisitiveness, resilience and tenacity, and global consciousness, all fostered at RPCS where students learn how to think, not what to think. And here, they also form connections to each other that last a lifetime. It is deeply heartwarming and affirming that RPCS women lead successful lives, and even more importantly, lives of significance.

I am pleased to share the annual edition of the Alumnae magazine Connections. The feature articles and the Alumnae Class Notes in this issue demonstrate how An Education Above at RPCS fuels the incredible women we are so fortunate to call our Alumnae. Their triumphs speak for themselves.

Jean Waller Brune Head of School

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very year RPCS holds an All-School Walk where students get paired with girls from different grades.

This year I was paired with a Kindergartener named Rosie. She grabbed my hand tightly and started chattering away about her siblings, favorite classes, and love of dance.

Coming up to the barrel of apples at the end, she chose the juiciest one and immediately chomped into it, only to get the sticker in the process.

been the paths for everyone, but each of these steps became key building blocks in my identity. Those little nudges from my mentors, along with encouragement from my peers, has led to the senior that stands in front of you today.

So, when you walk away from this Open House, of course remember the red and white pride, the amazing tour from your Red Key Tour Guide, and the delicious food at the reception, but also remember that RPCS truly

Explore Who You Are at RPCS

by Bracken Woolley, 2014

Giggling, she took the sticker out of her mouth and skipped ahead of me, calling back “Let’s go!”

Little did she know, but five year old Rosie was already exhibiting the traits of a true Roland Parker.

RPCS attracts and fosters open, compassionate people like Rosie and sets them on their path for life, giving them the confidence to succeed in whatever they choose.

At RPCS, there are no “types.”

The tennis star engineer, the artistic mathematician, and the Arabic loving rower all sit around the same Dining Hall table during lunch. Of course, these amazing young women didn’t enter RPCS with their futures already planned out. Rather, it was RPCS that led them down their different paths with the sheer amount of opportunity and guidance that exists here.

Personally, I have grown into a quiet leader throughout my time at

RPCS, a walking juxtaposition that in Lower School I would have never thought possible for myself, a girl who actually owned a bookmark that said “I’d rather be reading.”

However, this unofficial title exists pretty widely at RPCS. To be a leader here, you don’t have to be the most outspoken student. Of course, there are plenty of positions for girls who fit that mold and they are key players in our community, but lucky for me, my Roland Park peers also have a deep respect for us quieter folk.

This is because here we are encouraged to explore who we are in our own way. It was my 5th Grade teacher who told me to give Chinese a try, my middle school counselor who gave me the confidence to run for student government in 8th Grade, and my sophomore advisor who gave me the courage to take both AP History and AP English. These wouldn’t have

helps every type of seed bloom into its own beautiful rose.

Editor’s Note: Bracken was set to deliver these remarks at the Admissions Open House in the fall of 2013 but was unable to attend due to illness. She wrote this while she was en route to the hospital with a high fever and sent it to Jean Brune to read in her absence. Bracken finally had an opportunity to deliver this in May at the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association. Bracken is a member of the Cum Laude Society at RPCS, was the Vice President of the Senior Class and served on the Honor Board for three years in Upper School including one as the Vice President.

Bracken will attend the University of Richmond as a Presidential Scholar in the fall.

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Fabulous at 50 RPCS Cum Laude Society Chapter Celebrates 50 Years The 2013-2014 academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Cum Laude Society chapter at Roland Park Country School. Founded in 1963, RPCS became the first girls’ school in Maryland to establish such a chapter.

The School has elected 467 students into Cum Laude over the past five decades.

Dr. Abram W. Harris, Director of the Tome School in Port Deposit, Maryland, founded the Cum Laude Society in 1906 to encourage and recognize true scholarship in secondary schools, as Phi Beta Kappa does at the collegiate level. It was originally founded as Alpha Delta Tau: Alpha representing Arete/ Excellence; Delta representing Dike/ Justice and Tau representing Time/ Honor. In 1916, the name was changed to Cum Laude (with honor/

praise) and incorporated under the laws of the state of Maryland. Since Dr. Harris and his associates believed that chapters should be established only in schools of superior academic quality, the group moved very cautiously in granting new chapters.

The Motto of the Cum Laude Society stresses excellence, justice and honor in the broadest sense and students who are elected have demonstrated good character, honor and integrity in all aspects of their school life. In addition to students’ academic achievement other factors for membership include: rigorous academic progress, intellectual curiosity, love of learning and the desire to seek academic challenge.

Annually, the Head of School awards membership to a small percentage of juniors and seniors.

At the time of their induction, these

50 Years of Cum Laude Honorees Class of 1964 Grace Armstrong Ann Cooper Martha Fulford Josette Kiefer Brooke Mangels Class of 1965 Natalie Dixon Eileen Flanigan Mary Ellen Hayward Gale Lyon Elizabeth McCleary Virginia Morton Elizabeth Pfeffer Helen Tayloe Class of 1966 Lucy Cobb Jean Conley Katherine Cross Dale Gable Lisa Huber Anne Mountcastle Anne Nelson Class of 1967 Pam Baldwin Barbara Bang Mindy Camp

Elizabeth Downes Carol Gebelein Frances Naylor Suzanne Ross

Nancy Strahan Emily Taliaferro Mary Thomsen Robin Ward

Class of 1968 Randy Abramson Katherine Cobb Sarah Heldrich Ann Hodges Sarah Morton Romeyn Porter Barbara Winter

Class of 1971 Carol Fitzpatrick Gail Hauss Julie Henderson Katharine Johnston Carolyn Porter Cynthia Stautberg Stephanie Stone Marya Zeigler

Class of 1969 Kathleen Conklin Pamela Miller Christine Pierpont Ellen Reichenbach Elizabeth Sands Katherine Singley Susan Waxter Class of 1970 Nancy Beury Eleanor Deland Pamela Kellogg Rebecca Kornblatt Louise Meledin Phyllis Orrick

Class of 1972 Alice Brock Kristen Drechsler Sonia Ehrlich Juliet Kostritsky Linda Morton Lynette Phillips Lisa Reichenbach Susan Tippett Class of 1973 Lesley Baier Deborah Black Robin Chandlee Hendrieka Fitzpatrick

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Hilary Kessel Mary Dolan Miller Beth Parker Susan Riefner Emily Schwarz Fredrica van Berkum Class of 1974 Cynthia Ackrill Catherine Counselman Majorie Gonzales Leah Simpson Cristiana Villa Santa Class of 1975 Penelope Budacz Cynthia Green Ann McCullough Anne Orrick Fay Simpson Sally Strahan Alice Thomsen Anna Tippett Class of 1976 Daral Donkervoet Margaret Macfarlane Laura Van Buskirk

Class of 1977 Mira Davidovski Brooke McDonald Ellen Meyer Cary Quarngesser Elizabeth Simpson Margaret Yarlott Amanda Young Class of 1978 Birgit Baldwin Julie Blum Martha Fitzpatrick Elizabeth Gavis Jane Greenberg Amanda Hopkins Kristin Ranum Class of 1979 Laurie Alkire Jane Bennett Minni Bhagavan Elaine Howard Katherine Levy Shelia Maith Amy Schlott Class of 1980 Sarah Adams Frances Bennett Kathryn Connor Martha Leslie Jennifer Nutt

Helen Otto Susan Phinney Sally Young Class of 1981 Suzanne Michels Majorie Rice Ann Schlott Elizabeth Sunderland Lydia Wills Class of 1982 Kathleen Brooks Wendy Brown Karen Hsieh Jane Lee Diane Leslie Yvette Morris Erin Murphy Susan Whiting Class of 1983 Lawrie Balfour Julia Buchanan Elizabeth Fritz Sally Rice Siobhan Sharkey Class of 1984 Susan Anderson Raquel Dureza Heidi Hooker Kris Kwiterovich

academically talented students are charged with the following: The distinguished record you have made at RPCS has won for you membership in the Cum Laude Society. This Society is a fellowship of scholars whose purpose is to recognize excellence in academic work. As you pursue your education, it is our hope that you will accept the honor of membership in this Society as a responsibility to make some contribution to the ongoing search for greater understanding of humans and society.

With deep appreciation for their significant contributions to Roland Park Country School, all of the talented women who are members of the RPCS Chapter of the Cum Laude Society are listed below.

Courtenay Rianhard Anne Robinson Amanda Schlott Nicola Smart Katherine Whitaker Class of 1985 Susan Quarngesser Elizabeth Armstrong Suzanne Black Anne Callard Susan Cho Sonya Kazazian Anne Reynolds Diane Sieber Kimberly Taylor Ann Zeitung Class of 1986 Dorothy Alevizatos Lea Craig Laura Graham Kimberly Theis Mary Wolfe Class of 1987 Elisabeth Dahl Rowena Dureza Jennifer Fisher Min Hwa Kim Michelle McMacken Easter Smart Mariana Szklo Jennifer White

Class of 1988 Sonia Chung Marilin Colon Terri Doud Kelly Linaweaver Monica Jones Catherine Lewis Jennifer Mohr Uyen Thai Thanh Nguyen Cynthia Perkin Catherine Sharkey Melissa Theis Class of 1989 Nayla Afeiche Marjorie Dickman Lydia Kang Sohaye Lee Apple Musikabhumma Michelle Sotos Beth Winkelstein Class of 1990 Katherine Behrens Maureen Beyer Mirande Bissell Hope Bodie Jennifer Bogue Jennifer Bristow Marion Helfrich Michelle Parker Margaret Swingle

Class of 1991 Shaileen Beyer Ellen Chang Sarah Mumford Mary Rice Melissa Stark Cara Suter Class of 1992 Kimberley Bogue Alice Chung Rose Davidson Amanda Rothwell Alexandra Saral Ann Torres Amy Winkelstein Class of 1993 Brady Beale Elizabeth Fishman Melissa Ladenson Colleen McCormick Margery Menton Paula Pinell-Salles Katherine Saral Anne Zink

Fabulous at 50 Celebrating 50 Years of Admission for all Qualified Students Another Golden milestone this academic year is the Schools’ acceptance and admission of qualified students without discrimination.

Fifty years ago, with Headmistress Anne Healy’s full support the RPCS Board of Trustees declared, “For the Academic Year 1963-64 and thereafter the Roland Park Country School will consider without discrimination application for admissions by all qualified applicants.” What led to this momentous decision was a courageous letter written by Anne Healy: “Would a refusal to consider a Negro applicant be consonant with our educational philosophy? To us it seems that it would not: we cannot really nurture spiritual growth or make each student aware of her responsibilities in group living in a school where boundaries are set to

Class of 1994 Kori Bell Peggy Boutilier Melissa Cully Lisa DiLonardo Meghan Donnelly Shanita Leake Brent McCallister Catherine Passano Class of 1995 Yeo Jin Chun Buffy Fogler Grace Kim Nora Malaisrie Ginnie Plitt Megan Smith Class of 1996 Amy Barbour Elizabeth Born Amy Brazil Melanie Donnelly Mariam Ghani Ellen Ginsberg Laura Grosshans Heather Lazusky Sripriya Natarajan Kimberley Skelton

Class of 1997 Allison Harper Heather Hartig Jade Khouri Jennifer Lears

Jessica Norwitz Nina Strohminger Lisa Trader Elise Warfield Erica Wilmoth

Class of 1998 Grace Applefeld Yvonne Crispino Veronica Griffith Elizabeth Serotte Olivia Weisser

Class of 2001 Tala Al-Talib Elizabeth Bell Treasa Beyer Elisabeth Dietrich Blair Hagan Michelle Hessey Kerri Huebner Carly Kahoe Christina Kaminski Sarah McCord Elena Olivi Kelsey Twist

Class of 1999 Juennifer Abras Emily DeVries Sara Levine Susan Mabrouk Rebecca Mackowiak Tania Markowski Victoria Pass Christina Smith Vinita Takiar Stasia Thomas Ashley Zink Class of 2000 Lacey Baradel Erin Bums Jenny Culbertson Laura Durkay Vivian Fenstermaker Jill Landefeld

Class of 2002 Aparna Balakrishnan Kate Brockmeyer Ashley Dent Sarah DuBois Meredith Elkins Meghan Ferguson Casey Harwood Lisa Kebejian Allison Krutul Christine Mathias Alice McIntyre Meredith Shull

human beings. In an age when man is setting his seal upon the universe, we should at least admit all of humanity into our educational orbit.”

It also took great courage for Sharon Joyner, 1969 and Cheryl Russell, 1969 and their families to enter RPCS in the 1963-1964 academic year in the III Main (7th Grade). Debbie Williams, 1968 who was the first African-American to graduate from RPCS, entered two years later. Diane Hutchins, 1972 enrolled at RPCS in 1966. Sadly both Cheryl and Debbie are deceased.

Sharon Joyner lives in California and has visited RPCS several times throughout the years. Diane Hutchins is a current member of the Board of Trustees and was previously a Trustee from 1990-1996.

Today, 50 years later, RPCS continues to affirm a diverse,

Margot Strohminger Helen Lee Williams Mu Yang Class of 2003 Joanna Breslow Molly Frew Cassie Harvey Charlotte Hindsley Jessica Kaplan Sydnie Mosley Amanda Ortel Jordan Plumhoff Anne Troup Jennifer Tuttle Christine Werthman Class of 2004 Caroline Boeke Ellen Cameron Catherine Crowder Sarah Devine Katherine Duncan Elizabeth Duke Parilee Edison Katharine Fox Lacey Haciski Rebecca Josowitz Susan Lee Rebecca Polon Tatiana Sverjensky Lauryn Veverka

Class of 2005 Stacy Cooper Jocelyn Durkay Emily Gates Posie Harwood Katherine Long Ahsha Merson Caley O’Neil Lawrie Peck Elisa Prosperetti Krista Romita Brigitt Roveti Molly Ryan Alisha Williams Sarah Zimmerman Class of 2006 Brooke Christofferson Jane Dewire Peale Iglehart Catherine Guarnieri Kathryn Hampton Chelsea Kirk Eunice Lee Kwon Justine Li Joan Mathias Abigail Mitchell Megan Murphy Barbara Seaman Anne Seibert Julie Taylor Joanna Taylor Rima Zeitouneh

Class of 2007 Emily Adams Courtney Amelung Hollis Dvorkin Elizabeth Hagan Elizabeth Harwood Sunaina Khandelwal Caroline Martinet Rachel Meyer Maggie Nyce Allegra Romita Kalyani Ravi Amy Ryan Class of 2008 Annette Fleishman Christine Gummerson Elise Gonzales MariaLisa Itzoe Darya Iventivcheva Katharine Reilly Caroline Riina Lucy Scholz Lauren Sless Anna Statkiewicz Class of 2009 Claire Downs Morgan Dvorkin Melissa Goldman Miriam Goldstein Anelia Harnsberger Kendall Likes

inclusive learning community of students, families and employees.

And, in turn, we thank these women who bravely paved the way for future generations of students.

Frances Loucks Kelly Martinet Julia Osterman Leah Osterman Angeline Paik Julianne Payne Sarah Saxon Sophia Skupien Emily Sunderland Class of 2010 Mahuhu Attenoukon Blair Davis Catherine Doughterty Jennifer Fowler Ann Friddell Kathryn Gansler Katherine Geraghty Ellen Kauffman Caterina Marzella Carroll Neale Kallan Parchman Erin Trenery Margaret VanDeusen Kelsey Witherspoon Helen Yearly Class of 2011 Alexandra Day Daniela Eppler Anne Gaines Megan Herwig Zoe Jack

Tracy Kaczorowski Ann Kaufman Unjin Kim Angela Leasca Grace Lee Claire Lidston Nadine Mirza Kelly Smulovitz Lindsay Wong Hannah Zimmerman

Maria Folgueras Katharine Finney Courtney Grebow Martha Isaacs Hera Koliatsos Lushna Mehra Lyndsey Miller Hooper Neale Rachel Orlinsky Christine Vaile

Class of 2012 Meredith Birely Molly Cantrell Megan Davis Kelsey Dwyer Meghan Fawett Hannah Foster Alexandra Frankel Maya Hairston Devon Hitt Madeline Kaufman Dylan Otterbein Jo Eun Song Audrey Todd

Class of 2014 Megan Beto Ella Frankel Rebecca Jun Abbey Muhly Erin Penn Kristin Polk Catherine RomadkaFahl Isabella Thomas Natalie Thomas Ava Todd Anne Riley Erin Weinstock Bracken Woolley Sherry Xu

Class of 2013 Taylor Brooks Anne Cobb Briana Cohen Catherine Crozier Gabriella del Hierro Elisabeth Fassas

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#BringBackOurGirls The Commentaries presented here were both published in The Baltimore Sun in May. Jean Brune’s piece resonated with many as Americans were just learning about the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls two weeks after the incident had occurred. Jean’s piece led to two radio interviews. Jean was interviewed by Mary Beth Marsden on WBAL in Baltimore and also internationally by the BBC on Radio 4. And, our alumna Dr. Kelly V. Phelan, 1998 wrote a commentary in response to Jean.

The kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls has reminded the Western world that some must still fight for an education

By Jean Waller Brune

“I speak not for myself but for those without voice, those who have fought for their rights, their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, and their right to be educated.”

— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai captured our hearts and minds this past year as she fought for her life after being shot in the face by the Taliban for standing up to promote the education of girls. Hers is a very powerful story of the struggle tied to girls’ education around the world, and her remarkable appearance at the United Nations on her 16th birthday made her an ambassador and role model for girls everywhere and their right to education. The world needs more people like Malala, brave enough to stand up and speak out.

Sadly, we have yet another example of the critical state of girls’ education globally. On the night of April 14, 276 girls were kidnapped at gunpoint from the dormitory of Chibok Government Secondary School, a boarding school for girls in rural Nigeria, by Boko Haram terrorists, who believe Westernstyle education is a sin. All 276 are still missing. As reported by the New York Times, “These girls, ages 15 to 18, Christians and Muslims alike, knew the risks of seeking an education.” Another dozen courageous Nigerian schoolgirls

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were taken this week. All are facing an uncertain future and the possibility that they will be sold to militants as “wives” for $12 apiece.

On Tuesday, the U.S. offered to provide a team of experts to assist in the girls’ recovery, and all 20 female U.S. senators, led by Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling for tougher international sanctions against Boko Haram.

As a lifelong educator and, for the past 22 years, the head of Roland Park Country School (RPCS) — a college preparatory school for girls in Kindergarten through grade 12, with a preschool for girls and boys — this tragedy and all it represents deeply troubles me. These girls, like our girls, have their own aspirations, and they also represent the hopes and dreams of their parents. They were expected to have careers as teachers or doctors. Their lives matter as much as the lives of the girls at RPCS. We need to recognize that girls anywhere on this planet matter.

With over 66 million girls growing up without an education, and studies showing that educating girls improves the quality of life for families and can break cycles of poverty, the world must respond loudly. According to Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, “Educated girls stand up for their rights, marry and have children later [not in their early teenage years], educate their

own children and thus their families, and communities thrive.”

Many times in our lives we feel frustrated because we think our voices are not heard. Today we must give voice to these young women who have been silenced by the ignorance and hatred of cowards who may fear the life-altering changes that educating girls will allow.

As I often talk to our students about self-advocacy, I am now compelled to encourage collective advocacy. As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” RPCS will use its social media platforms to continue to promote the Bring Back Our Girls message, and we will join with the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools to take action.

I strongly urge all of our political and religious world leaders to use their influence to demand that these girls be found and returned safely to their families and their schools. As their Nigerian mothers march in the capital Abuja wearing red, all of the Reds at RPCS will join in solidarity. Red is our school color, and to us it represents spirit, power, compassion and love. We will hold a Wear Red Day on Friday to share our strength. Our students will be advocates for their Nigerian sisters. Also, on our Fisher Field, 276 students in the Middle and Upper Schools will be photographed as they are encircled by the remaining students who will link arms in the Reds Circle of Love.

Our thoughts continue to be with the girls and their families at this unimaginable time. And we pray for their safe return. #bringbackourgirls Jean Waller Brune is head of the Roland Park Country School.

276 RPCS Middle and Upper School students surrounded by the Reds Circle of Love

Girls are second-class citizens in too many parts of Africa, and that must change

By Kelly Virginia Phelan

In light of the recent kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls and the worldwide call to #BringBackOurGirls, it is important to note that the difficulties facing young females in Sub-Saharan Africa extend far beyond this tragedy.

Last week Jean Waller Brune, the Head of Roland Park Country School, wrote a moving piece about the challenges of girls’ education around the globe (“Bring back our girls,” May 8). I am a proud alumna of RPCS and remember Mrs. Brune fondly. Her words affected me profoundly, now more than ever, as I am a resident of Africa and witness these types of atrocities daily.

While the job that brought me to Africa (I’m a Fulbright Scholar and professor of tourism at the University of Botswana) involves tertiary education, my extracurricular experiences have given me insight into the disadvantages associated with being female on this continent. I am also reminded on a daily basis of the significant appreciation I have for having been born and raised in the United States.

Prior to the April 14th kidnapping, the students from Chibok Government Girls Secondary School would have been considered the lucky ones. To attend an all-girls school is an opportunity few have

here, but it makes a world of difference for one reason: toilets. Due to the lack of toilet facilities in many schools, once female students begin to menstruate, their attendance is interrupted each month, causing them to fall behind or cease attending lessons altogether due to the related social stigma.

While latrines could be easily provided with a few donations from a charity organization, marriage is a more permanent obstacle. In some areas of Africa, female education is terminated so that daughters can be married off early.

Many families force marriages on their young daughters in order to obtain a higher bride-price, which is viewed as a possible means of elevating the family out of poverty. Unfortunately, female genital mutilation (FGM) is often associated with this practice. Though I have never witnessed this custom myself, I have heard the screams, which are made all the more harrowing by the fact the community is well aware of the pain being inflicted, yet is celebrating with the same enthusiasm we demonstrate when someone graduates from college in the U.S. One of the motivations behind FGM is the belief that it makes women less promiscuous. But chances are high a girl’s innocence will be taken long before

she has the opportunity to realize her own impulses. In Botswana nearly 20 percent of females say their first sexual experience was rape. In South Africa, more than 40 percent of women will experience rape during their lifetime. This means the average woman is more likely to be raped than to complete high school.

Unfortunately, the long-term consequences of sexual assault in this part of the world extend far beyond the psychological.

Nearly half of all teenage girls in the region become pregnant and even more terrifying is the likelihood of HIV/AIDs infection. I live in the country with the second highest HIV/AIDS rate worldwide, which makes the prospect of rape a possible death sentence for the victim.

I was recently at an event where a government minister discussed the detrimental effect of brain drain. He highlighted the importance of Batswana men remaining in country to contribute to forwarding the national priorities.

Loosely quoted, he went so far as to say, “take our women [abroad], but men, you must remain here.”

I was born long after women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement, and I am forever thankful for that. As someone who has never had to experience those injustices, it is heartbreaking to bear witness to similar circumstances in my adopted home. I implore everyone reading this to stand behind the #BringBackOurGirls movement. But I would also remind you these 276 girls are not the only ones who need our attention.

Dr. Kelly Virginia Phelan, 1998 is an alumna of the Roland Park Country School, a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor of tourism at the University of Botswana. She maintains a blog (drphelanipresume.blogspot.com) about her life and experiences in Africa.

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Ashlee in

By Kim Daly, Communication Associate

Action Ashlee Tuck, 2002, is putting her passions to work as a contract specialist for the Federal Government, helping to award contracts that benefit people around the globe, and sharing her adventures through her travel blog, Will Drink for Travel.

Since 2011, Ashlee has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC. She negotiates and awards contracts on the Government’s behalf, typically to non-profits, NGOs, and other companies that work with USAID to implement development programs around the world.

“Education and gender equality are top priorities of USAID,” Ashlee

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Ashlee and her co-workers volunteered at the Tanzanian Baobab Home, a school and home for about 20 kids with HIV or AIDS.

says. “There is work being done around the world to achieve gender

equality and female empowerment, close gender gaps, reduce genderbased violence, and increase the capabilities and self-determination of women and girls. It’s really quite inspiring.”

Most recently, Ashlee was at the USAID mission in Tanzania for two months, helping to award contracts and agreements such as malaria prevention and education improvement, which would benefit the people of Tanzania. Although Ashlee cannot share specific details of the work done in Tanzania because it is proprietary information, she can say that information was being gathered about what percentage of children in Tanzania can read, write, and do arithmetic.

“I love the agency mission of USAID. There are so many people around the world who can benefit from various programs that USAID

helps to implement,” Ashlee says. “I also enjoy working with people from around the world. I’ve added several countries to my ‘must-go-to’ list over the years!”

Ashlee started her blog Will Drink for Travel in January 2014.

She wanted a way to update her family and friends during her trip to Tanzania. Since she always loved travel, she figured what better way to share than to start a travel blog. In the “Ashlee in Action” section, visitors to her blog can read about her stories and adventures in Tanzania, such as teaching children to ride bikes, touring homes made of cowhide and straw and held together with cow dung, and picking out kitenge fabric for a dress so she could attend a local wedding.

In addition to recording her adventures, Ashlee writes feature articles on beverages and places of the world on her blog. “It’s my

In the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Ashlee danced with the women of the Maasai tribe, bought their custom-made jewelry, and toured their homes made of cowhide and straw.

view into the wine, beer, and spirits I’ve encountered in my travels,” she says on her blog site. “I’ll do my best to explore the land, people, customs, traditions, food, and stories connected with the featured alcoholic beverage.”

Ashlee graduated from The George Washington University in 2006 with a major in Finance and minor in Criminal Justice and then worked for T. Rowe Price for three years before starting a career with the Federal Government. While at T. Rowe Price, she returned to school and earned a Master in Business Administration with a concentration in Management from Loyola University Maryland in 2010.

Ashlee credits the teachers at RPCS for motivating her to “be my best in some way.” She remembers that in Seventh Grade, Maria Hampton pushed her to excel in math.

“She was so hard on me because she knew I could do better. At the end of my Seventh Grade year, not only

Ashlee, who brought no fancy clothing to Tanzania, bought kitenge (a thick fabric common in this region) for a dress to wear to a local wedding.

had I improved, but I was promoted to Advanced Math where I remained for the rest of my time at RPCS. It’s probably why I enjoy math, numbers, and money today.”

Ashlee’s passion for her work and travels is manifest in full color in the photos and words of her blog. She hopes one day soon to be involved in making decisions for the agency itself at a higher level, possibly as the Mission Director at one of the agency missions overseas. All the while, Ashlee will also keep traveling, growing her blog’s readership, and sharing her stories with anyone who will listen!

Editor’s Note: At RPCS, Ashlee was Associate Editor of the Quid Nunc, sang in the Moore United Voices Gospel Choir, was Co-President of Black Awareness Club, and was a member of the Red Key Club whose role is to serve as ambassadors in the School, especially in Admissions. Ashlee served as her 10th Reunion Planning Co-Chair in 2012. She is currently a member of the Alumnae Board and was an Ambassador for the Alumnae RedRaiser in March.

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McCauley Bowl Awarded to Laurie McCulloch Fisher, 1963 With excerpts from remarks by Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993, President, Alumnae Association at the Reunion Weekend Champagne Reception

I would like to welcome you all back to Roland Park Country School.

First, I want to thank the Semiquavers for a wonderful performance, as usual. I say “as usual” because I was President of the Semis almost twenty years ago, and I know how hard they work to represent the School.

One of the highlights of the Champagne Reception is to honor an alumna with the Alumnae Association’s most prestigious award: the McCauley Bowl. The McCauley Bowl is awarded periodically to an alumna or other member of the school

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community who has distinguished herself through long service to the school and its graduates. This award is made in memory of and in gratitude for the life of Bell Lazenby McCauley, 1931. Mrs. McCauley’s life of service defines the standards and values, which are used by the Board of the Alumnae Association in selecting recipients of this honor.

Our recipient this year is Laurie McCulloch Fisher, 1963, voted most energetic in her Quid Nunc. In her years at RPCS, Laurie was very active in athletics. She played Field

Laurie McCulloch Fisher 1963 Quid Nunc

facing page: Laurie with her sister Hope McCulloch Carroll, 1956 and Hope’s husband Bill.

McCauley Bowl Past Recipients 1990: Eleanor Graham, 1916 1991: Helen Metcalfe Duncan, 1921 and Elizabeth Protzman Webb, 1921 1992: Judy Waters, 1950 1993: Marguerite Kelley - Honorary Alumna 1994: Kay Hamilton Cavanaugh, 1937 1995: Anne Healy - Honorary Alumna and former Headmistress (1950 - 1975) 1997: Peggy Webb Patterson, 1947 Laurie and her classmates at the Alumnae Champagne Reception

Hockey, Basketball, and Lacrosse, and was captain of all three her senior year as well as captain of the Elves. Laurie earned a White Blazer Award and was the sports editor of her yearbook. For her dedication to athletics and her strong School spirit, Laurie was inducted into the RPCS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.

Since her graduation from RPCS, Laurie has been a wonderful alumna and Trustee. She was her 50th Reunion planning chair. She has hosted reunions for her class as well as regional reunions in Annapolis.

Laurie has co-chaired the Golf Classic for three years. She is a charter member of the Cherry Tree Council and also serves on the Development Committee of the current Board of Trustees. If you look out at the beautiful RPCS Athletic Complex

and our synthetic turf fields, you’ll notice that Fisher Field is where our scholar athletes compete. This field is Laurie’s and her late husband Dave’s legacy to her years leading athletic teams to victory at RPCS. It was Dave’s wish to honor Laurie with the field dedication. She was quoted in last year’s illuminations as saying, “That was my space and I was happiest there. Surrounded by friends cheering us on, we could really feel the RPCS spirit.”

Laurie, we are so grateful for your dedication to Roland Park Country School and your ongoing spirit. We thank you so much for all of your time and support, and we know you are definitely an exceptionally worthy recipient. Congratulations!

2000: Agness Fulton Bond, 1941 2002: Betty Ann Schmick Howard, 1957 2003: Celeste Woodward Applefeld, 1964 2006: Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964 and Janie Susemihl Griffin, 1974 2007: Jane Desvarreux January Daniels, 1982 2008: Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958 and Pam Miller Loya, 1969 2009: Lil Wise, 1950 2010: Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948 2011: Jane Wilhelm Daniels, 1946 2012: Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982

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Helen Maud Foley, known to us fondly as Sally, entered RPCS in the First Grade. She had a welldeserved reputation for being mischievous, but as noted in the 1956 Quid Nunc, “Don’t let that twinkle fool you. It’s merely the delightful façade of wit which fronts a most intelligent, sympathetic and often serious nature.” Sally was voted Most Witty, Moodiest and Most Uninhibited in her Class poll where it was also declared Sally had the Best Legs! She played Varsity hockey, basketball and was captain of the Varsity lacrosse team. Sally was a member of the Athletic Association and served as the Sports Editor of the Quid Nunc. v Sally was her Class Representative for many years and was the Co-Chair of her 50th Reunion. Since returning to Baltimore in 2004, she has served on the RPCS Alumnae Board and was her Reunion Giving Chair in 2006.

In Sally’s own words, she recently

described why she decided to become a member of the Red & White Legacy:

My Legacy I have wonderful memories of my 12 years at RPCS – lifelong friendships formed, the exuberance of sports played, and lessons learned from many excellent teachers, but I also felt a formality existed between the students and faculty making relationships with teachers sometimes challenging. My deep appreciation of the School’s emphasis on values and high standards caused me to contribute regularly to the Annual Giving Campaign. However, I decided to join the Red & White Legacy after becoming reacquainted with the School in the past decade. During this time I observed impressive camaraderie between students and faculty.

I was reintroduced to the School at the 2004 Traditional Upper

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School Christmas Program. What a joy to experience the traditions from my era, now enhanced by students playing their own instruments, and singing songs from other cultures.

The most delightful of all was seeing the Employee Singers who joined the students on stage for several pieces.

I was so pleased to see students and RPCS employees sharing the joy of music.

As I looked around that afternoon, I was struck by the general atmosphere of relaxed congeniality amongst the entire RPCS community.

Subsequent visits to the campus confirmed my first impression: Roland Park Country School is a happy place to be. Positive and purposeful energy permeates the

campus both inside and out. The common areas are busy and full of intergenerational bantering, laughter and conversation.

Although my decision to join the Red & White Legacy was based primarily upon my belief that the student and faculty relationship had improved, I was also influenced by numerous other areas of School life.

I observed that the non-teaching staff plays a huge role in making the campus a happy place. These members of the RPCS family who work behind the scenes convey pride, pleasure and proficiency in their work - whether greeting visitors, handling the telephone system, making the library a welcoming destination, working with alumnae, coaching

sports, counseling students, serving tasty nutritious meals, or keeping the campus looking great.

I deeply admire the School’s

commitment to the arts. Plays and musicals regularly showcase talented students, musicians, actors and dancers. Everyone is encouraged to express her inner creativity, and the hallways routinely serve as exhibition space for excellent student creations.

It is great that this highly academic School continues to value the importance of sports and fitness.

So much can be learned from team play, and fitness is essential. The stateof-the-art “green” RPCS Athletic Complex and the modernized playing fields invite participation, as does the Dwyer Fitness Center and the indoor track.

large offering of language instruction (Arabic, for one). And there continues to be emphasis on writing.

Finally, I am in awe of how the School has been a leader in handling rapid technological advances. While meeting the challenge of the positive aspects of change, RPCS has never lost sight of the guiding principles for its community members of honesty, integrity, kindness, honor and respect for others. These values and standards are interwoven throughout every aspect of the life of the School.

to RPCS While meeting the challenge of the positive aspects of change, RPCS has never lost sight of the guiding principles for its community members of honesty, integrity, kindness, honor and respect for others.

I am impressed by the School’s commitment to local and global issues. In addition to providing opportunities to travel abroad, the School is in its second year of enrolling students from China. These young women have become full participants in School activities. This offers a wonderful opportunity for RPCS students to become intimately acquainted with another culture and it is exciting to think of these students returning to China after being taught at RPCS. Of course, one cannot help but admire the School’s phenomenal academic curriculum. It is quite astonishing to see such vast and varied course offerings. There are 24 Advanced Placement courses, and a

Sally Foley, 1956 Roland Park Country School has a solid foundation of academic excellence and ethical principles.

The School is poised to handle future societal and academic challenges and will continue to graduate well educated women who will become good global citizens. And so I leave my legacy, an undesignated bequest in honor of my parents Helen and Roland Foley, who loved the School.

RPCS is honored that Sally is a member of the Red & White Legacy and is deeply grateful for her heartfelt gift.

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Remembering Dr. Rhoda M. Dorsey, HA The RPCS community was saddened by the loss of Dr. Rhoda M. Dorsey, HA this spring. Dr. Dorsey was the first female President of Goucher College and she served in that role for 21 years. Dr. Dorsey served on the RPCS Board of Trustee from 1995-2004. Upon her retirement in 2004, “after nine consecutive years of service including two as Board President from 2002-2004, Rhoda was named an Honorary Alumna,

“Rhoda was an outstanding educator, a wonderful mentor to me, and a great friend of Roland Park Country School who wholeheartedly believed in and supported the schools’ mission.”

(HA) of the School.” She was also an Honorary Trustee. Head of School Jean Brune remarked, “Rhoda was an outstanding educator, a wonderful mentor to me, and a great friend of Roland Park Country School who wholeheartedly believed in and supported the schools’ mission.

Her advice and counsel in the years following our Centennial were invaluable to me and I will truly miss her thoughtful presence.”

Born in Dorchester, Mass., Dr. Dorsey graduated magna cum laude

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from Smith College in 1949 and earned a second bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University.

She completed her doctorate at the University of Minnesota in 1956.

Dr. Dorsey joined the Goucher faculty as an assistant professor of history in 1954 and became academic dean in 1968. In her obituary in the Baltimore Sun, Sanford J. Ungar, Goucher College President said,

“She was a teacher who stood for academic rigor above all. She had very high standards, and believed in the kind of broad liberal arts training that we’ve given students throughout Goucher’s history.”

After her retirement in 1994, Rhoda remained a regular presence on the Goucher campus as she was on the RPCS campus. She will be missed.

Remembering Sidney Silber

(l. - r.) Sidney Silber, Herbert Witz, Gordon Lenci

The Roland Park Country School community was saddened by the loss of former Trustee and Treasurer, Sidney Silber who died in July 2013.

Sidney served on the RPCS Board of Trustees from July, 1972 to June, 1981; he served as Treasurer of the Board from 1977 to 1981.

Working closely with Board President Herbert E. Witz and Headmaster Gordon K. Lenci, Mr. Silber was instrumental during and after the devastating fire in 1976 that

“RPCS is deeply grateful for Sidney Silber’s visionary leadership at a critical time in our history.”

destroyed a significant part of the RPCS University Parkway campus.

“He was a giant in our time of crisis,” said Lenci (Headmaster, 1975-1983), “and helped save the school by moving it to Chestnutwood.”

Jean Waller Brune, Head of School, stated, “RPCS is deeply grateful for Sidney Silber’s visionary leadership at a critical time in our history. That our original academic building (1980) bears his name is testimony to the impact he had on our School during his tenure on the Board of Trustees. Without his work, our students today would not be able to experience An Education Above.”

Sidney Silber’s legacy at RPCS continues into perpetuity. In addition to the building, an academic award, also in his name, is presented annually on Class Day to a senior who, through her love of learning, intellectual curiosity and achievement, has

responded to challenges in the fields of mathematics and science.

RPCS extends its sympathies to his family and friends.

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Alumnae Class Notes

We Are

Legacy Relations photo of the Seniors, Class of 2014 Front row, l. to r.

Ava Julio, 2014

Tessa Julio, 2011, sister Victoria Campitelli, 2011, cousin

Kelly O’Hern, 2014

Katie O’Hern, 2012, sister Debra Donovan Smith, 1975, aunt Christine Donovan, 1976, aunt Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994, aunt

Kristy Weidner, 2014 Caroline Weidner, 2009, sister

Rebecca Jun, 2014

Ellie Gaines, 2014

Betsy Gaines, 1999, cousin Emily Gaines, 2006, cousin

Daniella Faust, 2006, sister

Ella Frankel, 2014

Courtney Levitt, 2014

Amy Davidov Sibel, 1986, mother

Cheyenne Pajardo, 2014

Molly Callis, 2014

Susie Chung, 1985, mother Alice Chung Cootauco, 1992, aunt

Sasha Frankel, 2012, sister

Chelsea Pajardo, 2010, sister

Catherine Romadka-Fahl, 2014 Rene’ Kaminski, 2009, cousin

Kara Powell, 2014

Michelle Powell Alexander, 1992, aunt

Natalie Faust, 2014

Sophie Sibel, 2014

Carli Levitt, 2012, sister

Meredith Callis, 2010, sister Carley Callis, 2011, sister Margie Fink Gunn, 1993, cousin Callie Helms, 2002, cousin Cori Helms, 2009, cousin

Second row, far right, l. to r.

Katie deMuth, 2014

Susan Taseff deMuth, 1978, aunt Ellie deMuth, 2010, cousin

Connelly Kline, 2014 Madeline Kline, 2011, sister

A Family Ava Todd, 2014

Audrey Todd, 2012, sister

Marguerite Adams, 2014 Sarah Adams, 2012, sister Back row, l. to r.

Rachel Poverman, 2014 Nancy Livingston, 1952, cousin

Toby Dubin, 2014

Molly Dubin, 2013, sister Kathryn Glick, 2014, cousin

Kathryn Glick, 2014 Molly Dubin, 2013, cousin Toby Dubin, 2014, cousin

Amity Jackson, 2014

Annlee Jones-Boutwell, 1981, mother Kelsey Jackson, 2010, sister M.C. Jones Johnson, 1972, aunt

Anne Bailey, 2014

Katherine Bailey, 2011, sister

CeCe Finney, 2014

Rebecca Finney, 2013, cousin

Katherine Harrison, 2014

Elizabeth Harrison Lamb, 1986, aunt

Molly Duke, 2014

Elizabeth Duke, 2004, sister Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973, aunt Barrett Neale Scott, 2006, cousin Carroll Neale, 2010, cousin Hooper Neale, 2013, cousin

Ellie Macfarlane, 2014

Ida Kemp Cockey Passano, 1921, great grandmother Susie Passano Macfarlane, 1950, grandmother Margie Macfarlane Long, 1976, aunt Catherine Passano McDonnell, 1994, cousin Tammy Passano Wiggs, 1997, cousin Sarah Passano Meech, 2001, cousin Kate Long, 2005, cousin

Ann Bradley Lewis, 2014

Kay Hunner Lewis, 1951, grandmother Tara Lewis, 2005, cousin

Kristin Polk, 2014

Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982, mother Natalie Polk, 2012, sister Diane Hamilton Boynton, 1952, great aunt Allison Boynton Bateman, 1988, aunt Not pictured:

Ashlinn Bunisky, 2014

Anne Perry Suter, 1992, mother Cara Suter-Tesdall, 1991, aunt

Alumnae Class Notes Class of 1945 Sunny Klein Lee beach2212@verizon.net I hope that you safely passed through the winter months and are now enjoying the warm weather and sunshine. Marion Marshall Hooper (Dicky) and her husband, Laurie, have to be pleased to have enjoyed the much more pleasant winter months in Florida than we endured here in the northeast. Fortunately for me, Agnes Klein Lee (Sunny), I spent the winter recovering from spinal surgery and did not have to deal with the elements. Mary Ellen Dandy Marmaduke (Melon) was very kind in supporting my interest in identifying the right surgeon and right place to have my surgery. My heartfelt thanks to her for her many kindnesses. For many years, Mary Ellen has been in contact with neurosurgeons around the U.S., introducing them to her late Dad, Dr. Walter E. Dandy, as a doctor and skillful neurosurgeon. Last fall she gave a presentation at Oregon Health and Science University and in March in Phoenix. She has made many significant connections, many of which have developed into rewarding friendships. Her newest presentations will focus on her Dad as a father to four children.

When writing a book about her Dad, she engaged her sisters and brother, and is now joined by her daughters and other family members as she continues to help others know and appreciate her father. Margaret Fox Rawls (Mardy) sent a delightfully pleasing account of her grandson’s upcoming wedding in Central Park on Valentine’s Day. It was held in the Ladies’ Pavilion, a large gazebo like structure open on all sides, but with a roof (That day in New York City turned out to be one of the coldest and snowiest.) As a witness and along with the other wedding guests, Mardy was expecting to wear a heavy coat, boots, gloves and a hat over wedding attire. Somehow that brought to mind a Norman Rockwell scene.

Mardy is enjoying two great grands and is expecting two more in July. Congratulations!

She added that she would like them all to go to RPCS. Ursula Stewart Koerber (Urs) is at Blakehurst, along with Patricia Waters Barrett (Pat). They have dinners together, and are able to spend time enjoying movies and Blakehurst activities and events. Our deepest sympathy goes to Urs on the recent loss of her sister,

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Delphine Stewart Barroll-Kelly, 1943. It has come to my attention that Elizabeth Ruth Cleaver (Beetle) has moved from her apartment, and we send good wishes to her in her new living arrangement. I have been in contact with Catharine Foster Black (Kitty).

She is involved in activities at William Hill Manor, and checks on Walt daily, as he has moved to another facility on campus for more supportive care. We did not hear from Martha Lewis Kingsford (Lewie), Elizabeth Corddry (Betty) or Mary Frech Lamborg (Freckles). We do hope that they are well, and will get in touch. This past January, we lost another of our classmates, Jean Eisenbrandt Sener (Dolly), who had been very active in Chestertown, MD, most particularly in the Church Hill Theater. Her sons, Mark and Newman Johnston, hosted a gathering in remembrance of her at her lovely home on the Chester River, followed the next day by a service at the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore. Bill and I were able to attend both.

Mary Wilhelm Barton (Jinx), and her sister, Jane Wilhelm Daniels, 1946 were present, as well as Judy Baldwin Waxter’s son, Peter. Once again, we send our deepest sympathy to Mark and his wife, April, and Newman and his wife, Beth, as well as the entire Sener family.

The Anderson family is growing in leaps and bounds: 14 grandchildren, and now nine great grands, which we truly adore. (Fortunately,

Bill’s family is not growing as fast.). Next year will be the year to celebrate our 70th Reunion.

Hopefully, a few of us, out of 12, will be able to get together for a lunch. My best wishes to each and every one.

Class of 1947 Priscilla Long Beirne Surprise! The Class of 1947 has gotten its notes together. Jane Thomas Acton is still in Gladwyne, PA. She and David are planning to sell their house this spring and move to a retirement community. At this point they can’t decide on an apartment or a villa. When I talked to Jane she was coping with eight inches of snow. Jane has six grandchildren.

This summer Jane and David hosted fourteen children and grandchildren in Ocean City, NJ. Florence Maher Cromwell and Irdie have lived in Santa Fe for many years. Florence remains an active volunteer in the local hospice. She now concentrates on vigils. Formerly she worked with neglected and abused children.

She has a daughter who lives in Albuquerque and four grandchildren. I had a long chat with Penny Hughes Doolittle. She and Dick live in an old house in Bethesda. She admitted that

In Memory of Jane Obrecht Emich, 1937

by Jean Waller Brune, 1960 Jane Obrecht Emich, 1937 embodied the essence of a true Roland Parker. She was a dedicated supporter of the School’s mission and believed wholeheartedly that an excellent education included athletics, health and wellness in addition to a strong, rigorous curriculum.

The White Blazer, the School’s highest athletic accolade was created by her and her twin sister. The qualities required for a White Blazer recipient include spirit, cooperation, good sportsmanship and leadership – all traits that Jane herself embodied. Our Athletic Hall of Fame is named in her honor. Jane is part of a multigenerational family whose connections to RPCS have been integral to the fabric of our School “through all these years,” as our School song states. I will miss Jane’s friendship, Jane Obrecht Emich, 1937 at Class Day in tenacity and strength as well as her deep 2011 with the White Blazer recipients commitment to this School she loved.

she and Dick have slowed down a bit, but she is painting and taking adult education classes.

Her art work in different mediums is on display in a local gallery. She and Dick spend long summers in Blue Hill, ME, where Penny keeps busy with Cynthia and Patsy’s children and grandchildren. She remembers having her hair cut short by Emily Tompkins Taliaferro.

Does anyone remember that episode? Joyce Kellam Dougherty and her husband have lived in Lacy, WA, close to her daughter for five years. Her two sons live in Florida. Joyce remembers her two years at RPCS fondly, recalling a very friendly atmosphere. It was an easy walk from her home on Wickford Road to RPCS. Dottie Klinefelter Earll and Homer are well ensconced at Ginger Cove. Dottie is legally blind, but she has knitted over 500 lap robes for wheelchair patients, uses books on tape and listens to quiz shows for fun and to keep her brain ticking. She attended the recent RPCS alumnae gathering in Annapolis. This summer she is looking forward to two family weddings, one of a granddaughter, the other of a grandson. Dottie was in Virginia visiting her daughter when I tried to reach her. Alice Nelson Furlaud lives in Truro, MA. When I talked to her she was battling snow and caring for her new cat. She stopped doing set pieces for MPR several years ago when she reported as an April Fool’s joke that a stylish boutique in Paris was giving away free clothes, which caused a small riot! She’s now working on a memoir of her life with her late husband Max about their years in Paris, where she saw a lot of Sue Wagner, 1945. I talk to Peggy Webb Patterson almost weekly. She is confined at home, but Sterling and her son Richie try to keep her out of trouble. We often talk about events since Kindergarten where we met and are surprised at what different memories we have of the same events. Her years as Director of the Evening School and Kaleidoscope make her a great source of RPCS history and personalities. Mary O’Rourk-McKenzie continues in her beautiful house in Baldwin.

Her daughters are with her and her son John is close by, so she’s well looked after. She’s a wise

Watercolor by Cynthia Troxell Dunoyer, 1948 from her book, Forty Years of Watercolors

reporter on the local scene with an unfailing sense of wry humor. She has stayed active in alumnae affairs working with her daughter Mary Stuart McKenzie, 1978. The Class extends its sympathy to Lou Dukes Pine. Her son, Jonathan died in November. His death is a great loss as he was active in the community and leaves his wife and two children. Lou had decided last summer to close The Elmhurst Nursery School this May after running it for more than 50 years. She is looking forward to this retirement and has plenty of projects to keep her busy. I was finally able to reach Ann Howell Veghte in Florida where she spends the winter. She is fine, walks two miles every morning which she has done for twenty years, and she plays lots of bridge including duplicate. She will return to Shannondell, near Valley Forge, at the end of April. Her daughter Shelley lives ten minutes away. Her son Jamie is now head of a large reinsurance company in Westport, CT. Ann will spend several weeks this summer with her children and grandchildren in Stone Harbor, NJ. I have had many bittersweet moments compiling these notes. This past year Agnes Newton Hollerith, Patricia Goldsborough and Cassie Miles Baxter all passed away. I am sure our classmates will be saddened by this news. I also have had no luck contacting our other class members on the list. Diana Brown Franceschi and Gig Roberts Shear. Where are you? Since Roly my cat disappeared last April, I live alone on Meadowood Road. I’ve had recent surgery on my eye, but I can still read. Soon I hope to get back to an exercise class. I enjoy Miss Healy’s First Monday Book Club at St. David’s Church. If anyone would care to join us just give me a call.

Class of 1948 65th Reunion Ann Wittich Warfield annwarfield@gmail.com It is with great sadness that I begin our class notes with the announcement of the deaths of three of our classmates. Kitty Lewis, Beverly Evans Lyons and Barbara Hoffhines Yellott all died during this year. Fond memories of them all fill our minds and hearts. May they rest in peace and have light perpetually shine upon them. Another great loss was Charlie Demere, Margaret Crawford Demere’s husband after a long illness. Margaret is making a new life in a retirement home in Huntsville, AL near her daughter, Jodie. On a more cheerful note, Nancy Curtis Blaine is looking forward to

Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948 and her husband Trev and Cynthia Troxell Dunoyer, 1948 and her husband Philippe

her grandson, James, getting married in June in Annapolis - a first for the family. Nancy keeps busy with exercise classes and volunteer work with Loaves and Fishes in Charlotte where she is fortunate to have all her children living nearby. I caught up with Mary Sturgis Wolfe during one of our major snow storms this winter. She was happily sitting by her pool enjoying the Florida sunshine! A surprise package came for me this fall. It was a book of Cynthia Troxell Dunoyer’s paintings that she had exhibited in a gallery in Paris, and then again in a gallery in Denver last fall, so lovely. Do you remember the individual drawings of each of us that Cynny did for Quid Nunc? Dot Obrecht Johnson lives at Mercy Villa, a retirement home, near Hunt Valley with her husband Roger. She says she thinks her traveling days are over but she very much enjoyed her granddaughter’s wedding in September. I caught Molly Allen while she was temporarily snowbound in New York. She was very upbeat and busy as ever with many young friends and very grateful for the life she has had and is continuing to have. I was so sorry to be unable to reach Mari Herman and hear about that famous cat of hers, but her answering service was so filled it wouldn’t take any more messages! I am grateful for all the recent snow days that have allowed me to catch up with everyone. The only news from our family is that we have a great-grandson - the first - which does indeed add a new dimension to your life. I came across this poem

by Longfellow recently that seems appropriate

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to us all: For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, Though in another dress; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.

Class of 1949

Class of 1950

Betsy Wilkins McMaster mousamryc@verizon.net As we enjoy what I think is our fourth blizzard of the winter, I fear my notes may be a little out of date when you read them in late spring, but here goes: Since I no longer have family members in Baltimore, I seldom have a reason to visit, but work with a long term colleague of my father on a book about my father gave me an excuse to visit in March 2013. Shirley Wingo Hooper invited me for lunch at her lovely house in Ruxton. She invited Carolyn Smith to join us and we had a delightful mini-reunion of onethird of our surviving classmates! Carolyn is an avid photographer and sent us excellent pictures of ourselves later. She is immersed in studies of Baltimore history and enjoys leading tours of visitors to Homewood. Cordie Lee Moody Wilkinson (Trip) is lucky to have her son and daughter living nearby in the Rehoboth area where she has lived for many years. Her family had a house there where I visited as a child and I think she has always had a home there.

She is very active as a volunteer in many local organizations. Trip and Pam Sylvester O’Dowd ran into each other at an RPCS regional gathering on the Eastern Shore last year. A good photograph of them together appeared in last year’s Connections. They overlapped for such a short time in Eighth Main that this was their first chance to get to know each other! I have had several phone conversations with Karen Howard Hamer who has been living for a long time with Bob in a retirement community near Carlisle, PA. The snow made her long for crosscountry skiing, which she did for many years there and in their Vermont days. They still exercise their brains with regular bridge games, as does Pam. The Hamers’ younger daughter, Robbie, has moved from Springfield, MA, to Lebanon, PA, about an hour from them. As their older daughter, Anne, lives in Prince George’s County, MD, it is much easier to have family get-togethers as they did last Christmas. I was distressed recently upon calling Mary Blair Briscoe Shaw’s long term home in Potomac, MD, to learn that she had died in April, 2012.

Her husband, Brit, (Wilmer Brinton Shaw) was one of our rare RPCS “small boys.” Are there any others still extant? I don’t know how much longer the school enrolled boys after our class

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(There were four boys and twelve girls in our Fourth Grade class and I think we made their lives miserable.). Brit still lives in Potomac, their son lives in Maryland and their daughter lives in California. As a classmate and neighbor, I remember fondly Mary Blair, her lovely, gentle nature and artistic ability.

Polly Powell Gregory pollygregory2@gmail.com I thought that at our stage in life it might be fun to remember some of the things that went on when we were at RPCS. A few memories came in from classmates. Those first four years at RPCS were the years of blue uniforms, bloomers and the playground. Susie Passano Macfarlane and I were in those classes. As were a few “small boys.” I think that we were the only ones to go through all 13 classes. A photograph of our Kindergarten Christmas pageant. Susie: St. Mary and I as an angel.

Ah, the swings and the sandboxes, etc are well remembered. We then progressed on to the Lower Main and through the years added classmates and lost a few. I remember Miss Ingle and her sister who was nicknamed “Miss Single” as she taught music and led us in singing. I think that stayed with us the next years with Glee Club. There was Mrs. Maevers who played piano for all activities. The Upper Main and preparations for college and our lives to be. The fire and the amazing work done during that summer. The first sight for my family was a look out the window and flames in sight. We called the telephone operator to ask what was on fire. (Yes, that was the thing to do back then!) Our summer and School were changed immediately. Many pitched in as best we could, trying to dry out books and support one another, Miss Castle and the faculty. That was June. School opened on time in the fall! Judith Brigstocke Hundertmark reminds us that the annual Holiday Fair was started by her mother. As I remember, those activities were good fun. Jean Wright Wareheim reminds us of summer get-togethers at Carol Lynch Perry’s parents’ farm on the Magothy, an activity that was to go on for many years after School, later at Jean’s home around a wonderful pool in Roland Park. We were a small class (Depression babies) but we have mostly kept up and enjoyed each other through the years. From Susie: One of my favorite memories was marching into the Amanda Lee Norris big Gym for an important assembly with with Mrs. Maevers thumping

Jeane Horst Gore, 1953 and Parker Trostell Gundry, 1953 at the 55th Reunion Luncheon

away on the piano. Just as you would get to the gym door, Lola, our beloved maintenance worker, would hand you two white paper towels and two paper clips so that you could wrap your wrists with the towels and appear to have white cuffs. The heartwarming story many years later is Lola’s granddaughter graduated from RPCS not too many years ago!

As to the present: We do report on successful children and grandchildren. RPCS taught us to think well and it looks as though we have passed on the wisdom. Judith also send in news of her family: Andy’s Alexis graduated from University of Maryland at College Park last spring. She initially didn’t want to go to college until working retail for a year or so made her realize she needs a degree. She then worked while going to college. She is now 28 and is with a Head Start program. Andy’s boys are AJ, who will be senior at Gilman next fall, and Martin, who will be freshman at St. Paul’s.

Andy and Carol are both working hard.

Class of 1953 60th Reunion Lucy Fallon Otto jrotto2@gmail.com

Do you remember “the old roll call?” Selina Baker Martin lives in Tenants Harbor, ME. Stuart Bodine Moore lives in Amelia Island, FL. Ellen Brown Walls lives in Hartly, DE. Beverly Busick Pearson lives in Sonoma, CA. Jean Edgar Goldsmith lives in Ellicott City, MD. Ellen Evans is sadly deceased.

Excie Everett Taylor lives at Keswick. Parker Gundry Trostel visited her in the fall and showed her pictures of our student days, which she loved. Lucy Fallon Otto and Rollin are well, busy at church and the beach in the summer.

We enjoyed the wonderful reunion, which Jeanie Horst Gore so beautifully arranged last fall. It does not seem possible that sixty years

Members of the Class of 1954 Anne Clark Bass, Welby Hamilton Loane and Peggy Sutton Taylor in Key West

have gone by. Parker, Dottie Hayden Gilman, Carol Jones Carlson, Betty Sand Gault, Diana Russell Deacon, Jeanie Horst Gore and their husbands and friends were there for a delicious dinner. Whitney Foley Fuller lives in Falls Church, VA. Janyce Fuhrman Smith lives in Florence, SC. She is very busy singing with a choral group, Masterworks, church work, water aerobics and tai chi. Janyce has sixteen grandchildren married or in college or graduate school – a busy lady! Last year, she shared a trip with her granddaughter to the Holy Land, a very special event. Rosemary Gatch Donnell now lives in Arizona, which they love. She and Hal play duplicate bridge and read a lot. She traded in the Corvette, which she won, for a Prius that she loves. She enjoyed watching the Traditional Upper School Christmas Program and “felt very nostalgic.” Parker Gundry Trostel lives in Minneapolis, MN. She and Al were here for our reunion. They are both incredibly involved. Al is with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, plays tennis and skis. Parker volunteers with hospice and teaches a wisdom journey course, “From Ageing to Sageing,” for the seventh year. They travel and bike with their seven grandchildren. The first to be married was Molly, their son Rick’s daughter, and the wedding was on Mt. Hood. Their big travel this year was to France with grandson Tucker. Paula Hassencamp Lynch is busy as business manager of Worcester Preparatory School, which she and Franklin started in Berlin, MD. They recently moved to a smaller house across from the school campus so Paula says she can “roll her wheelchair” across the street when she needs one. She also is busy with the Berlin city council. Dottie Hayden Gilman lives in Queenstown, MD. She and her husband came to the reunion. Dottie has low vision, which she handles with much cheerfulness, ease and grace. She and her three sisters all have macular degeneration and are in studies at Johns Hopkins. Jeanie Horst Gore arranged the wonderful reunion at l’Hirondelle Club with red and white balloons and flowers and

a delicious dinner. She still rides and competes still. She and Ken are still in their lovely home with their dogs. They have two grandsons, one in college and one who has graduated. Carol Jones Carlson came to the reunion. We were glad to see her after so many years. She has just moved back to Howard County from Easton, MD after the death of her husband. Jean Lenox West lives in Delray Beach, FL. Juliet LeSeur is deceased. Betsey Martien is also deceased. Ann Painter lives in Willow Street, PA. Lynn Riefle lives in Havre de Grace, MD. Fran Robbins, where are you? Louisa Rowell Stark lives in Phoenix, AZ. Diana Russell Deacon and Jack have just moved to a retirement community in Newtown, PA. It was great to see them at the reunion. They are just getting settled in Pennswood. Shortly after they moved they went on a wonderful week in Saltzburg, for concerts which were stellar. Now they look forward to lots of activities at Pennswood. Betty Sand Gault and a friend came from Harrisburg to the reunion. She looked wonderful and is possibly our first great grandmother. Page Shutt Tomlinson lost her husband, Art, and her younger sister, Ann, this past year. We send her our deepest sympathy. Ann Stone Athy lives in Pittsford, NY. Kitty Vandenburg Cubbison lives in Wilmington, DE. Next year I hope to hear from more of the Class of 1953. Peace and blessings to all, Lucy.

Class of 1954 Margo McElvain McClellan margomcclellan1@gmail.com As we welcome in a New Year we realize that in 2014 we are celebrating our 60th Reunion at RPCS! Can this be possible? We Baltimoreans are hoping that a good number of our pals will be “home” to celebrate with us! I hate to begin our Class Notes on such a very sad note ....our hearts go out to Sue Whitely Payne who has lost a precious grandson! Calvin, almost 16, a great skier and outdoorsman died in January 2014. This is a tragedy no one can comprehend, and we send our love and sympathy to Mary Sue and Jim, and their entire family. Recently, Sue Whiteley Payne writes: Nice things are still happening in Calvin’s honor in Vermont. There were two candlelight vigils and now Okemo Mountain is having a “Friends of Calvin Payne” day where his friends can ski for half price! And I just heard that James’ closest friend (a Philadelphia lawyer) has fallen in love with a woman who works with our daughterin-law and is spending a lot of time with Heather and James. On a happier note, she

Margo McElvain McClellan, 1954 with her husband and grandchildren in Martha’s Vineyard

shared, the Road Scholar trip that I took to London and Paris in May with my three children could not have been better. We had a glorious time in both cities and it was a real treat for me to have them all to myself for ten days. There were many highlights, but one of the best was hearing a talk by Ken Wharfe, Diana’s bodyguard, about his days with the young princess. Jim and I are doing okay now - it still seems unbelievable that Calvin is gone.

I want to thank all of you who sent such kind notes. It helped so much. Anne Clark Bass reports: Lynn Brewington Havard left this morning after a fun week here in Key West. We had lunch with Peggy Sutton Taylor and the week before, Peggy and I walked down to the dock to meet Welby Hamilton Loane and Puttie Loane at their ship. So, the ole gals are keeping in touch. I had a lovely visit from Isabel Thomson Meisler during Memorial Day weekend when I briefly saw Mary Donna Maher Anand at Blakehurst visiting her sister.

She shared that her three daughters are well, and she cherishes the weekends throughout the year spent at their homes attending grands’ sporting events. Mary Donna is looking forward to our Reunion and says, “Love to all.” A note from Carolyn Powell Lalley says: Dick and I continue to be happy and busy in Charlottesville, VA. I will finish my two years as President of the Residents Association for our community in June. It has been almost a full-time job, but I have enjoyed it. Dick continues to help residents with computer problems, which is also a full-time occupation.

We took a river trip in Russia last summer and saw our ten-year old grandson who lives in Moscow with his mother. That was very special. We continue to be blessed with good health for which we are thankful. I definitely plan to be at our reunion next October and hope to see everyone then. Isabel Thompson Meisler writes: 2013 was a pretty quiet year.

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think, and it took me all spring and half the summer to get back and just as I did, on a trip up to Chautauqua, NY, Arnold fell asleep at the wheel on a major highway and totaled the car. And yet we walked away from that one with nothing serious, except back to square one for me with the hip thing. It was a very amazing escape really. So that’s the body summary, now for the mind. In the interest of keeping sharp, I invested in Rosetta Stone to learn Spanish.

That was a year ago. It’s sitting on my computer wondering why I never start. Also have Lumosity. Don’t use that either. I need Miss Faissler at my back! Finally, this winter’s decision is to get out of winter! We had two great weeks in Florida and are now off to La Jolla, CA for two weeks and then to our son Julian’s in Santa Rosa for two more. I happen to love snow, but enough is enough. Arnold will turn 83 soon, and somehow it is all a bit weird. We are all so “as we were” in our heads, and yet here we are, RPCS sisters, turning 78.

Well only a number, so meanwhile, carpe diem, and I look forward to playing with everyone next October. News from Welby Hamilton Loane! “We’re thrilled that our grand-daughter, Elena Loane, 2017 loves her first year at RPCS (Actually...she’s known as “Ellie” at school.)

On Thanksgiving Day, sisters Diane Hamilton Boynton, 1952, Linda Hamilton, 1958, and me were with Elena singing the School song. She knew all the words! Do you remember them? For the first time in our lives, Puttie and I were away for all of Christmas this year. We sailed from Los Angeles down through the Mexican Riviera and Costa Rica through the Panama Canal and eventually ended up in Key West where we rendezvoused with Anne Clark Bass and Peggy Sutton Taylor for a day! It was a fantastic trip and I do recommend that you put the Panama Canal on your bucket list. It’s amazing! Anne Turner Pope announces that they have big news: Mikey got a full knee replacement in October, which has been just wonderful. We aren’t quite dancing a fandango, but we are having a ball doing things we haven’t done for several years. All of our family members seem to be in a good spot at this point for which we are profoundly grateful. In March, we will be visiting my sister Pattie and her husband George in Barbados to celebrate her 70th birthday. We are looking forward to the warmth! Lynn Brewington Havard writes: I visited Carolyn Lalley in the fall for a few days.

Libby Carr Hinds was in town for a family reunion, and we had a delightful brunch at the old Morgan Millard’s, now Petit Louis. I am presently in Key West for a week with Anne Clark Bass and soaking up lots of sun before returning to the wintery mess. We had a delightful lunch with Peggy Sutton Taylor. I continue to attend the Renaissance Institute at

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Diane Hamilton Boynton, 1952, Linda Hamilton, 1958, Ellie Loane, 2017 and Welby Hamilton Loane, 1954 on Thanksgiving Day

Notre Dame University on Tuesdays and Thursdays where I take classes in Yoga, Tai Chi, Nia dance, Life of Picasso, Understanding Modern Art, series of BBS Upstairs Downstairs and series of The Wire filmed in Baltimore.

Then I am still a working gal giving at least eighty-five hours monthly at Craft Concepts selling women’s apparel and accessories. My seven grandchildren are all thriving in their educational worlds. My fourth granddaughter, Hewitt Havard Harchick, 2013 is the second one to have graduated from RPCS. I also have my first college graduate, Marilyn Schnader, from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

C.C. Ramsay Merriam explained that she has been working against child labor practices and sex trafficking, as well as for fair trade and assistance to low-income artisans. She and Duke went to Martinique in February 2013 and in June they attended the wedding of Benjamin Pettit and Claudia Gray in a zoo in Plymouth, England, then to San Francisco in November for the Stanford-Cal game and to Los Angeles to visit daughter Claire and family.

At Christmas they visited Andrew and family in Philadelphia and hosted Matt and family in Washington. They will be spending some time in Jamaica in March. CC announced that they now have seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren! (Congratulations!)

Martha Grimes Mabie writes: John and I have been married for 56 years and we still enjoy playing golf together and now playing bridge, but learning all the new conventions has been a challenge. We spend much of the winter in Florida and think we are very clever to be out of Chicago and the snow and ice. We have three of our families in the Chicago area and one smart son, now in Tucson with his family.

The 12 grandchildren are thriving: three are out of college, one is a high school sophomore and one is a high school senior who will be going to Bucknell in the fall. It is great to be a grandparent and not have to suffer all of the ups and downs of the teenage years. The

Grimes family, Sarah, Mary, Clark and Kate, will gather in Baltimore after our 60th Reunion to share memories and tour some of our favorite haunts. I am looking forward to seeing our Class and hope everyone is doing well.

Scootie Michel Twells says she and Tom did some major downsizing in July, moving from their house in the country to a high-rise apartment in Towson, which they are loving. It has floor-to-ceiling windows, lots of light and the world’s tiniest deck overlooking Towson University. Life is so simple and easy with no more house, lawn, garden and pool maintenance issues. If something needs repair we just call the concierge and he sends someone up to fix it. Loads of fun restaurants are within walking distance, and, as an added bonus, watching the snow fall from the 11th floor is mesmerizing! Martha Rock Ause and I had a good conversation recently. She and Bob escape the Michigan winters on Jupiter Island, FL where she sings in her church choir and they both attend classes at the Florida Atlantic University for lifelong learning. Reporting on their three children and seven grandchildren, she said that their son, Bob, and family had moved back to Ann Arbor and he is teaching science and chemistry. Daughter Jennifer is a physician in Hampton Roads, VA and is doing very well. Amy is in North Carolina where she and her husband share a family counseling practice. I was glad to hear that all is well with the Ause family, and that Martha hopes to join us for our upcoming reunion! Life for me, Margo McElvain McClellan, and my husband Tony goes on relatively unchanged, fortunately.

We enjoy our art work (photography for me which began in my early days at RPCS!) and water color for Tony. We share a love of golf and I enjoy my winter tennis. Our travels boil down to visiting our respective children and grandchildren whenever possible. Cathy and her family live in Wilmington, DE, and Lisa and her gang are in Weston, MA. We also spend a good amount of time at our home in Martha’s Vineyard and are currently embroiled in an effort to save our adjacent Mill Pond, a historic icon of the Town of West Tisbury. As one of the Reunion Team (including Scootie, Welby, Lynn and Anne Bass), we are so looking forward to our big get together over Columbus Day this year. Y’all come! It’ll be great fun!

Class of 1955 Anna Dorsey Cooke Allison wda11ison@aol.com It was lovely hearing from those of you who answered my email, and many thanks to each of you. Kitty Bond Allen: I still work three days a week as Administrative Assistant to the chaplain in spiritual support Services at GBMC, edit newsletters for Grace Church, the Baltimore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the Baltimore Symphony Associates, and edit the program book for the Symphony Decorator’s Show House. I also serve on the boards of the AGO and the Baltimore Symphony Associates. I am very proud of my five grandchildren ranging from three and a half to 21, none of whom live very close so when our families get together, it is quite special. I can tell that the body is getting older by the number of pill bottles facing me each morning, but grateful to still be upright!

Joan Buckler Claybrook: I retired in 2009 after 27 years as President of Public Citizen, a public interest advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader. I spent those years building the organization into a hefty 90 person institution

with a $12 million budget. I personally worked on auto and large truck safety and fuel economy improvements, trying to preserve citizens’ rights to go to court if they are injured or cheated, warding off attempts by businesses to make it more difficult for the federal government to issue health, safety, consumer and environmental standards, seeking campaign finance reform which we achieved until the Roberts Supreme Court undid most of the public protections, consumer and worker protections in international trade rules, safety protections from nuclear power and controls over energy production. In the following several years I increasingly had trouble walking, had one back operation, a foot operation and a knee replacement, but finally had to use a walker. I got mad with my neurologist, which sparked him to discover I had a benign tumor in my upper back that was squeezing my back and leg nerves. I had it removed immediately and have been in physical therapy for two years. About six months after that operation I was walking with a cane and on last July 4, I started walking without the cane although with some pain in my lower back. I am still working on getting rid of that. I could not walk or drive a car for a year. I am now traveling again, got a new (used) car after my 20 year old Volvo died,

doing volunteer work with longtime friends on auto and truck safety, still serving on some non-profit boards including Public Citizen’s, doing some consulting out of my home office, cleaning up years of stuff so my nephews won’t have to and thoroughly enjoying life. I see Jeanie Walter Teare, 1954 and C.C. Ramsey Merriam, 1954 here in DC where I have lived since 1966. I’m looking forward to our 60th Reunion next year. Gale Chance Cooke Fitzwater writes: I just made the cross country drive from Whitefish, MT to Alexandria, VA in the middle of all the snow storms. I arrived in Virginia late Valentine’s evening to a wonderful dinner my husband brought in from my favorite restaurant. I got across the Rockies just fine but I-68, I-64, and I-70 were a mess coming over the Eastern Divide/Appalachians. My dog loves the Marriott Residence Inns and likes to ride the elevator, use the pet rest areas and eat the dog biscuits he gets at the front desk. We have had an epic snow and ski season with some very cold temps. The lowest was -23 degrees, no wind chill factor, at the house and -35 degrees over by Glacier Park. At Christmas, my middle granddaughter put on her new skate skis and skied out the dining room door onto the deck and made it down the steps and headed for the driveway before her Dad

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reminded her she had no edges for turning. She crashed into the nearest snow bank and wanted to be pulled back up the hill with the tractor since it had chains on all four tires. We were all laughing so hard we were rolling in the snow.

We had a “ski by” picnic in the yard to enjoy the sunshine and then had a late evening supper with friends and family cooked on the grill: halibut and salmon from Alaska and local organic beef. A wonderful holiday! Mike was able to stay through New Year’s before heading back to tax season at the office in Virginia.

When I came across the country there was snow the whole way, but after South Dakota the roads were mostly clear. There were some spectacular sunset and weather front patterns in South Dakota and Iowa. It was a great adventure, but I’m hoping for a little less snow on the return trip, at least until after we get past the Mississippi. I plan to stop to visit friends/ summer neighbors in Illinois going back.

Looking forward to hearing the news from everyone, and thank you for being the means for keeping us in touch. Anne Stewart Fiske Kearns: The 2013 year for Bill and I has been a challenge that turned out successfully, thank goodness. One of Bill’s daughters developed breast cancer and came home to live with us and gain the benefit of our outstanding medical center. As caregivers, we were with her every step of the way through extensive testing, chemo and radiation, to end the year cancerfree. And now we are re-entering our “usual” life. We managed to play golf and to walk extensively. Bill walked 117 miles in that time and I did 81. We return for another stint in Florida and then off to France for a cruise in May. I always see Betsy Colwill Wiegers in the fall and spring for lunch in NYC. We have such fun! I correspond with Kay Staub Martin too. I have three great-granddaughters, who by the way I don’t allow to call me “grandma.” I am “Miggens.” Other than that, I’m treading water to keep up with everything! Carolyn Swisher Mathiasen: I finally retired last year after I turned 75. Except for our years in Paris in the mid-1990s, I’d worked since 1978 in Washington, DC for a firm that provided information for institutional investors on social and environmental issues raised at corporations’ annual meetings. The organization has been taken over several times in recent years by larger firms that focus on issues different from my own concern of corporate social responsibility, and I had reduced my hours to about half, so cutting the cord completely turned out to be easier than I’d expected. As I’ve moved away from formal work, I’ve developed a love of gardening, probably once frustrated by not having had much scope over our years with a small and eventually no yard in downtown DC. We continue to divide our year

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between our downtown apartment here and our colonial house with eight acres near Castine, ME, a lovely village on the sea. That property has given us increasing pleasure: I’ve finally managed fairly respectable perennial beds; the area around the pond is now full of purple lupine and other wildflowers; and last year the fence outside the vegetable garden was a riot of crimson poppies, scarlet runner beans and pastel sweet peas. As you can guess, I’ve been spending this unusually bitter Washington winter pondering plans for the garden for the coming summer. We have four grandchildren, between the ages of 12 and 15. One of our two daughters lives in Connecticut, so we are able to see her and her two boys fairly frequently certainly much more often than when they were all in Seattle when the boys were little. Even better, our older daughter works for the Treasury Department and lives here in Washington, so we see a lot of her family. One of the real pleasures of Washington now is the excellent home-grown theatre, which includes a lot of Shakespeare. My two granddaughters are enthusiastic about attending with me, and we’ve gotten great joy out of many of the productions. This brings me back to RPCS and its splendid grounding in Shakespeare’s plays, especially from the English classes I was lucky enough to take from Miss Healy, a lifetime gift.

Barbara Hocker Simmons: For Thanksgiving and Christmas I have been going to Delray Beach, FL where both of my daughters live. It was a bit too cold this year, but still most fun and enjoyable being with them and their friends. I hope to go again in March because by that time it should have warmed up enough to sun and swim. I have been attending this season’s selections at Center Stage with my bridge group and highly recommend looking into next season’s plays because we have thoroughly enjoyed all of them. Next is Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. I also took two courses offered by Kaleidoscope last season basic drawing and watercolor - both most enjoyable. You may be aware that Baltimore’s own Dr. Ben Carson is considering running for President in 2016. I am most definitely hoping that he will. Louise White: In March 2013, under threat of a blizzard that did not materialize, I reduced the contents of a four bedroom house - with living room, dining room, kitchen, porch, lawn and patio - into a two bedroom apartment at the Elkridge Estates in north Roland Park. Not a big move - just a little over one mile to the west of my former house - but a great move, because now I no longer worry about pipes and roofs, and someone else is doing the gardening. I am in my 15th year as a docent at the Walters Art Museum, a lector at St. David’s Church, a volunteer for the RPCS Kaleidoscope program,

and I spend as much time as possible, when it’s warm, at Gibson Island. As for me, Anna Dorsey Cooke Allison, Elise (my daughter) and I went to the Baltic countries in August 2013.

We started in Tallinn, Estonia and worked our way through Riga, Latvia to Vilnius, Lithuania.

We were able to see the old towns easily by walking, and when we ventured outside of them the bus system was easy. It is hard to believe we are approaching 60 years since our graduation. What productive and full lives all of you are living, which is not at all surprising.

I hope many you will come to our 60th Reunion.

Class of 1956 Sally Foley sallyfoley@verizon.net Sally Foley writes: The three dogs and I are still going north in the summer (where it’s hot as Hades these days). Having sold my Maine cottage, I love the ease of renting. I spent the last four summers in the beautiful, bucolic Berkshires, but will divide my time this summer between there and Rockport, ME. I need the ocean. Sally Bienemann and I have spent many hours on the telephone in the two years since we “remet” in Baltimore.

She has retired from her practice as a psychologist. The long work days of old are now too short, filled with the antics of two new kittens (after the trauma of the death of two elderly cats) and puttering around Manhattan without a schedule. She and partner, Cookie, have bought a Florida condo (bought so they can take the cats) to escape NYC in the snow. She and I have had wonderful long telephone calls in which we recall and laugh over countless shared memories. And we remind each other of things we did together that only one of us could immediately recall. It’s been so much fun to feel myself back in first grade (where we learned to make round ABC’s with Miss Crouse and to reminisce about the following years, including my wonderful times with the fascinating Bienemann’s and Sally’s times with my family (she even reminded me of a cute nickname that only my mother used for my sister). I recommend that each of you try it with an old school pal that you’ve lost touch with. You’ll quickly find that reliving what you found memorable about your years at RPCS (teachers, sports, the locusts in study hall, School traditions like the Upper School Christmas Program and, of course, boys we dated or wished we could) will bring you back together in a way

possible only if you’ve shared school days.

Jane Adams Watts shares: I continue to read to the preschoolers at Baltimore County Public Library. I am enjoying my time at RPCS with my granddaughter, Grace Watts, 2018, who graduates from Middle School this year. She enjoyed playing on the tennis team. I now also have one grandchild at University of MD, one starting at Duke in the fall, and one starting middle school in Massachusetts. Along with my dogs, one of whom I continue to train, life is fun.

Class of 1957 Gay Parsons Walker walkerrg@telus.net Travel, children, grandchildren and the weather have been recurrent themes in our class news this year, but I’ll begin with two sad items. We’ve sent our condolences to Betsy Kendall McCreary and her family on the passing of her husband, John, in March 2013. John was a distinguished musician, Canon Organist Emeritus at St. Andrews Cathedral and organist and choirmaster at the Iolani School in Honolulu. Together, Betsy and John were very active for many years in Hawaii’s musical community, and Betsy has received loving tributes from many colleagues and former students. We are also mourning the death of Alicia Iverson Floyd in December.

Although Alicia graduated from a different school, she always remained close to her RPCS friends, and now she is very much missed.

Our thanks to Alice Fort Dorshow and Susie Wills Hunter for telling us about Alicia. Libby Callard Olson wrote about her fascinating trip to Burma (Myanmar) in January 2013, with a small tour group led by an American who had lived in the country and knew it well.

They visited large cities, Buddhist temples and some places off the tourist route. Libby found the people friendly and eager to join the 21st Century. While in Asia, she also visited her son Peter, who teaches Formula 1 racing and does marketing for a company in China, and was delighted to meet his fiancée. Libby and her late son Matt’s boys travel together at least once a year, and in April, she took them to San Diego and to Irvine, CA, to see where their father had grown up. Another world traveler is Linda Cochran Gillard. She emailed claiming to have no “real” news, and then mentioned that she and her husband were aboard a coastal ferry, docked way north of the Arctic Circle in Tromso, Norway! She

Members of the Class of 1957 Alice Fort Dorshow, Perky Gantt Kahn, Betsy Kendall McCreary and Chotard Doll Fenik in Arizona

and Lee were there on a hunt for the northern lights. This year they are also planning to visit Spain for two operas and four concerts, and to go to North Vietnam, Java and Bali. Their life consists of “months of routine punctuated by weeks of rather interesting travel.” When at home in California, they walk with a club, and Linda plans travel and opera outings while Lee builds beautiful furniture and raises bees.

Real news – and very welcome, too! Susie Wills Hunter and her husband Bill are looking forward to a Viking riverboat cruise in May to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary and Susie’s 75th birthday. They have been enjoying the comfort and convenience of retirement living since moving to Towson’s Edenwald Retirement Community in January 2013, and are now happily settled and active there. Bill is assistant treasurer of the Residents Association, and Susie is involved with Buildings and Grounds and the Garden Committee. She also does flower arranging and visits residents in health care areas, and they often see their sons and families, who live just ten minutes away. Their eight-yearold grandson was seriously injured in a car accident last summer, and Susie is very grateful that he has now recovered fully. Nancy Norris Kniffin and Hazen moved to Roland Park Place in June. Nancy says it brings back happy memories, as her parents also spent their last years there, and she enjoys the security of having an on-site healthcare facility when it is needed. While it is a retirement community, Nancy and Hazen are far from retired: she still teaches in a part-time program at Johns Hopkins and he sees patients five mornings a week. Frances McCauley King has had a “daunting” year with her daughter’s diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. We hope that the worst is over now and Amy will have a smooth and complete recovery. Frances retired as the director of a preschool in Lancaster, PA, last May after seven years of dealing with all the personal and physical issues it involved.

Now she is looking forward to spending more

time with her husband John and is hunting for new stimulating activities, saying “my mind has not died yet!” Her son, his wife and two teenage daughters live in Ashland, VA. Frances was one of several classmates who have lamented this year’s extreme winter weather along the east coast. Ellie Mills Weinstein and her husband Steve have suffered Baltimore’s harsh winter and, when she wrote, were waiting for spring to clean up the damage to their pine trees. Last fall they enjoyed driving to Quebec and on the way visited their eldest granddaughter in Vermont.

In the future, they look forward to visiting two other grandchildren at their universities in Boston. Another classmate eagerly awaiting spring is Jennie Ladew, who has been spending the winter at her apartment in Leesburg, VA, along with her sister Rebecca and daughter Jodie. When she last emailed, they were anticipating another huge snowfall and hoping they wouldn’t lose electric power. We all enjoy Jennie’s monthly reminders of classmates’ birthdays and the wise little quotations that come with them. Thank you, Jennie! When Lynn McManus Mazzarella wrote in January, she and her husband were just back from the annual ski week for disabled vets in New Hampshire, a welcome holiday with activities and entertainment for both of them. Bob, who has MS, enjoys being guided down the hill on a sit-ski, and Lynn was able to take long daily walks. Lynn says she doesn’t like driving after dark in the winter weather, a sentiment I’m sure a lot of us share. Betty Ann Schmick Howard has optimistically found beauty in Baltimore’s snowy landscape, but she wrote that she and Johnny were looking forward to three weeks in Florida in February. Their travel is limited, as Johnny suffers from severe arthritis. Perky Gantt Kahn has managed to avoid Boston’s snow and ice by spending the winter at her home in Scottsdale, AZ. Lucky lady! In February, she had a visit from Alice Fort Dorshow, Betsy Kendall McCreary and Chotard Doll Fenik. It’s always a pleasure to hear from Chotard, as her emails fairly glow with enthusiasm for life. She and Bernie love living in Tucson, AZ, with its mild winter temperatures. (Another lucky lady - and she feeds the quail at her front door!) She writes: We are still docents at the Desert Park and make frequent presentations on wildflowers and birds and ethno botany to libraries and garden groups. We also tutor languages at an Episcopal school, Imago Dei, where all the children come from families whose income is below the poverty level and most are Hispanic or foreign. Chotard still enjoys weaving and makes enough selling her work to keep herself in yarn. Life in Calgary carries on happily for me, Gay Parsons Walker, despite last summer’s

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terrible floods and this winter’s record cold and snow. Roger and I have survived major renovations to make our little house more senior-friendly, and we keep very busy with hobbies and family, including four lively grandchildren. Beautiful British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, lured us back four times last year: for skiing, winery touring, boating with friends and a quilt conference where I had art pieces in two shows. The drive there, over three high mountain passes, is spectacular in summer but in winter can be way more exciting than we need at our age. My thanks to all my dear classmates for sending news – it’s lovely to keep in touch!

Class of 1958 55th Reunion Courtney Jones McKeldin courtney@mckeldin.com Our 55th Reunion, last October, was great fun and those who joined us had a fine time.

Hopefully, you will see some pictures in this publication of those who attended in all their glory. For those of you who couldn’t attend, please put October 2018, on your calendar now for our 60th Reunion. Brooke Nichols Taylor is now in her new home in downtown Charlottesville after having lived in the country for so many years. I am sure she is pleased with her move after all the snow this past winter.

She has given up bird-watching as the country setting was more conducive to spotting birds than her new digs in the city. Clare Callard got a new knee in late February which should make her more mobile in her travels. Clare is an award-winning bridge player. Norvell Brinton has a new man in her life, Jamie Meyer, who has taken up residence in her townhouse.

She seems very happy with this arrangement

Ann Posey Cherry, 1958 and Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, 1958

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Members of the Class of 1958 Courtney Jones McKeldin, Linda Hamilton and Bonnie Getschel Sawyer and (seated l. to r.)

Norvell Brinton, Frankie Sherwood and Nancy Biggs Cole

and is still delighted that she moved back to Baltimore. Norvell is “command central” for all things on the internet and keeps us well informed of a potpourri of stories and illustrations. Norvell and Jamie do volunteer work at Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Norvell is an accomplished macaroon maker and cranks out several dozen each week for family and friends. Linda Hamilton visited Baltimore after our reunion and several of us had lunch with her while she was here. She likes her new townhouse in Ft. Collins, CO. Speaking of which, Carol Wilson Keenan, of Colorado Springs, skis in the winter and bikes in the summer, which is pretty impressive at our age. Nancy Biggs Cole had a shoulder replacement last year which has made her archery more important in avenging those pesky deer. She has graduated to a cross bow for more accuracy. Margot Bond Wittich continues her babysitting prowess for her grandchildren when she isn’t exploring the latest new restaurant opening. Her new blog, Margot’s Munchies and her ukulele keep her extremely busy. Frankie Sherwood sold her Roland Park house in February and immediately moved into Elkridge Estates where she discovered a den of foxes near her building. Mary Grimes Olk, from Troy, MI, attended our 55th Reunion and reports that she “really likes the winter with lots of snow and cold...go figure, guess I live in the right place.” Michigan, that is. Betsy Mills Hughes and her husband, Jim, visited Baltimore before the reunion and we all had an enjoyable and rather lengthy lunch at the Village of Cross Keys. I continue to be amazed at their myriad of activities. Although Ann Mohlhenrich could not come to our reunion, she did visit Ann Posey Cherry at her retirement community, Blakehurst, in January to have lunch with her.

Bonnie Getschel Sawyer continues her travels where last summer she and husband, Bruce, took a Danube River cruise but the water was so high because of so much rain they didn’t get to visit all the little towns along the river. Peggi Frizzell Powell and her live-in companion, Jimmy Greenwood, flew to Australia and New Zealand last fall and actually saw a performance of South Pacific in the south Pacific! They snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reef and got a personal tour of Sydney, by Peggi’s cousin’s friend. Their favorite country was New Zealand as they toured Milford Sound through the Southern Alps and on their drive through the country visited a sheep farm.

Peggi said it is a beautiful country and great people. Donne Lee Schwabb Frisch and her husband, Dick, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past winter by hosting their anniversary party at The Elkridge Club for family and friends. Congratulations to you both. Donna Lee and Dick will be moving into Blakehurst Retirement Community sometime this spring. Mary Whitall Thomas Clevenger attended two events for our 55th Reunion.

The first was the luncheon at Jean Waller Brune, 1960’s house on Friday and the second was at the luncheon at Blakehurst on Saturday.

I, Courtney Jones McKeldin, continue to fare well by walking, swimming and playing tennis.

I just rotated off of the Baltimore City Zoning Board and was immediately appointed, by the Mayor, to the Baltimore City Property Tax Appeal Board. I am involved with seven other organizations and between meetings, travel and my grandchildren, I keep pretty busy. My husband, Ted, is still full-time with the Attorney General’s Office, Subsequent Injury Division, and he will be getting a new knee in July. He had cataract surgery on both eyes last summer after 50 years of wearing glasses! He sees better than ever, so I highly recommend it. Our thoughts and prayers are with our classmate Marion Stafford Lorr. Our condolences go to Linda Godine Long, whose husband, Dave, died in Florida, where they winter, early this spring.

Class of 1959 Caroline Savage Wanstall nonniew@yahoo.com Wyn Drake Varney: I seem to have been dashing about all over the place in the last year. Physical therapy for the knees and in September I went to Devon for Bill’s 70th birthday. Unfortunately, last spring, his symptoms landed him in the operating room.

Walt Howe and Hope Tillman, 1959 on Sanibel Island

Bill started William Drake Ltd in 1974. He has the Royal Warrant and is perhaps the only organ builder to hold this honor. The firm is fully able to carry on what he began, after having spent 11 years in Austria and Germany studying the intricacies of mechanical action organs. Bill owns four houses, one chapel, one school and furnishings from Mum, our Aunt Maud, eBay and assorted local sales rooms. In Buckfastleigh, the chapel and attached schoolroom comprise the John Loosemore Centre, the home of the business. Sadly, Wyn reported that Bill passed away on January 11, 2014. He will be sorely missed by family, friends and colleagues. Cathy Hart: I am still living in Deer Isle, ME, having moved here in 2003. Life is good in this small town on the coast and I feel very much a part of the activity here. It is a hub of creative people of all sorts - artists, writers, musicians, etc. and there are many interesting presentations to attend. I continue to do volunteer work for the local historical society and the land preservation trust organization. I also work occasionally on freelance editing for two writers. The physical beauty of this island is one of the main attractions for me, even during a very cold and difficult winter. Brian, my youngest son still lives on the island and my oldest son still lives in the Atlanta area. I’m looking forward to attending our 55th Reunion in October and hope to see many classmates then. Gail Gardner Long: Ted and I planned several trips around his very successful anterior hip surgery in June. We greatly enjoyed visiting the St. Paul/Minneapolis area in May to celebrate the marriage of Caroline Savage Wanstall and George`s daughter, Molly. We were on the go from morning until night investigating the museums, architectural

delights, and tracking down all the places F. Scott Fitzgerald lived and worked, along with enjoying the wonderful hospitality surrounding the beautiful wedding festivities.

This autumn we headed to Germany, Hungary, and Austria for three weeks. We found Dresden a beautiful city and a testament to the evils of war as well as to the strength of the human spirit to rebuild from the ashes. Budapest was its usual delightful over-the-top self, and Vienna was as elegant as always. Between all the art, music, opera, viewing of architecture (best done with an architect), wine and food we came home really ready to settle back into life here in New York. Our daughter, Bess, was featured in a big New York Times article about the power architectural renderings have, both pro and con, when developers are trying to “sell” their ideas to the public. Her organization Save Greenpoint has been fighting the over-development of the last quiet neighborhood on the waterfront in Brooklyn.

It is a true David and Goliath story, saving a multi-ethnic neighborhood from big development. I am still volunteering as a reader for Light House International, and have been taking drawing classes. Time passes so quickly and quietly when one is concentrating on observing and drawing. That is a pleasure! Betty Norris Govatos: I am still landscaping, knitting, etc. In 2014 I plan to find time to read some of my pile of books and redecorate some of the house. Hope Tillman: As usual, we are happy to say we started 2013 and will end it in Sanibel – bicycling, nature, good food. We enjoy our home in Woburn, MA, too, but Sanibel is a great retreat. Our time in Sanibel is December and January and

for a week in September. This December we had the added enjoyment of celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary here. This year has brought lots of technology, genealogy and time with friends and family. We both love exploring the latest gadgets and technology, hardware and software. This year that included a needed new heating and air conditioning system for our Woburn home. The upside is that Carrier talks to our iPads and iPhones and tells us regularly that everything is okay. We can still talk to it and change the heat when we are on the way home from a trip, just as we did last year with the Nest, and we handed the Nest on to son Paul who is using it in his home. We have also been taking courses to improve our Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver skills. Hope is hearing better with the assistance of a hearing aid – enjoying some of the sounds she was missing. Walt continues singing with the Mishawum Choral Society, serving as a Trustee for Quail Run, and managing websites for Quail Run Condo, Mishawum Choral Society, and the Christmas Archives. Hope continues managing the two genealogy websites (MSOG and ESOG), the Wild River Publishing website and publishing the Quail Run Condo newsletters. He uses his acting skills and love of genealogy as a reenactor in a cemetery tour where he played the founder of Woburn MA, Edward Johnson. Two summer visits to Woburn: son Paul and family visited the Cape and grandchildren David and Natalia joined us for a couple of days in Woburn, and daughter Kim and granddaughter Isabel visited Woburn. We enjoyed celebrating Kim’s birthday with a walk around Horn Pond.

Also our usual very enjoyable trips to Maryland

Caroline Savage Wanstall, 1959 and her family at her daughter’s wedding

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Gail Gardner Long, 1959 and Ted Long with Caroline Savage Wanstall, 1959 and George Wanstall

and New Jersey. In August Paul, who is director of quality at Hopkins department of radiology, gave us a whirlwind tour of Johns Hopkins Medical Complex to cousins Ned, Marsha, Rod, and Walt and me. Looking forward to 2014: Hope has signed on to become the interim library director for Olin College beginning in January 2014 while they search for a new director, so by mid-January will be back joining the throng of Route 128 commuters mornings and evenings. While this sounds like a fun opportunity at an exciting college, we both hope it is not for too long a duration and that Olin finds a qualified library director for their future. I am very sorry to report that we lost another classmate, Ann Shutt Evans, on December 20, 2013. The following are some tributes to Ann from several classmates. Zilla Johnson Clinton writes: Ann was a sweet, gentle woman. She appreciated humor and had a great infectious laugh. She was truly a nice person. I can’t ever remember her saying anything nasty about anyone. We stayed close in college - one year we roomed together in a quad with two other good friends.

Because I was in the Theatre Department, I was always in rehearsals working late into the evenings and all weekends. I loved it, but it left little time for anything else. Except for lunches and dinners and bridge playing I didn’t see Ann as often in our last two years. Plus I’ve always been a whirling dervish and Ann was quiet and calm - very steady in her ways. But we always knew what each other was doing, and I knew if I ever needed anything, Ann would be there. My mother felt that Ann and Cassie and Voigt were a good influence on me. I’m sorry I didn’t stay in touch over the years. I am glad I did reconnect with her. I wish I had done it sooner. Cathy Hart writes: Ann was one of my first friends when I entered RPCS in the Third Main. I think it was her first year there, too. We had many good times together and I particularly remember her sense of fun and beautiful smile.

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retrospect it is a wonder that we were not expelled. I lost touch with Ann for many years but saw her again in the 1990s when I had dinner at her home on Seminary Avenue with her and her mother. Her brother Chips came by for a visit. Then we lost touch again until I received an email saying she was under hospice care. We corresponded a few times. I was saddened to learn in January, 2014, that she had passed away in December. She had a wonderful spirit and I will miss her. Gail Gardner Long writes: I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Ann via email last spring when Caroline told us Ann would enjoy hearing from other classmates. Even though she was very ill, Ann always responded with lovely, sensitive observations about her garden which gave her such pleasure, her beloved cat, Martha and her take on the joys and sadness of life in all its beauty and mystery. She truly enriched my life by sharing some of this with me. I only wish I had known her better all those many years ago. I am sorry to report that Anne Carter Brothers’ husband, John, passed away suddenly in November. John was an orthopedic surgeon. And, as for me, Caroline Savage Wanstall, I have been blessed during 2013 in many ways. The first very special occasion in May was the marriage of our daughter, Molly to Dean Reichard. It was a very memorable day with all four grandchildren participating in the ceremony. We were particularly pleased to have many out of town family and friends in attendance, including Ted and Gail Gardner Long. Just two weeks later, our oldest grandson, Dakotah, graduated from high school. In August George and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a family weekend at a lake resort. The year 2014 started out very dramatically for us as we sang with our concert choir and an international group of choristers at Carnegie Hall! It was an amazing experience including several intense rehearsals where we learned new singing techniques which enhanced our rendition of Karl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater. The Isaac Stern Auditorium is a beautiful space and was filled with almost 2,000 people. Ted and Gail Gardner Long were in attendance. We also enjoyed a lovely dinner party at their home with our daughter and son-in-law and Gail’s daughter Bess. A great way to overcome the doldrums of winter! Looking forward to our 55th Reunion which will take place in October.

So far, the activities include a luncheon at RPCS on Friday, October 10 and a luncheon at Lyn Schmeiser Cook’s on Saturday, October 11. Hope to see many of you there.

Class of 1960 Polly Lemire polly.lemire@gmail.com Sandra Rockwell Aronoff and her husband Don are continuing to love their decision to move to Baltimore and enjoy all the cultural goodies of city life. They took a great cruise to New England and Nova Scotia and still spend a good part of the winter in Florida.

Anne Street Benya loves their new house in Pasadena, a newly constructed Mission-style bungalow. Anne and her talented canine Valour are looking forward to the National Association of Canine Scent Work’s national trials in May. She and husband Paul are still riding their road bikes three times a week.

Carol Clark Coolidge is still in Santa Fe, NM and is looking forward to the arrival of a third grandchild in May. She and her family still spend the summers going “back to basics” in Ontario where her family has a log cabin on land purchased by Dexter’s grandfather in the 1890s. Priscilla Frey Parcells loves living by the ocean in Virginia Beach, enjoying the presence of her two children who live nearby.

She spends quite a bit of time in physical therapy taking care of her shoulder, so no golf right now. Having spent so much time taking care of her mother and her brother, Prissy now considers herself to be an expert on nursing homes. Several classmates have undergone major life changes. Susan Rose is still recuperating from moving out of her

Classmates from 1960, Molly Clark Pratt and Jean Waller Brune

home for 28 years and is inspired by the seniors “62 and better” who also live in her apartment complex. She misses her garden, but is looking forward to warmer weather and enjoys getting together with the Baltimore contingent for lunch once a month. Emily Tongue Richardson lost her husband Ramsey in December. She stays busy working at the Martha Jefferson Hospital several days a week and is still keeping up with her hereditary societies. She plans to stay in Charlottesville, but also visits the house in Solomons, MD and guests are welcomed! While most of us in the east coast and midwest were getting snowed in, Yvonne Vasseur Moden, who is living in Stockholm, Sweden, noted the lack of snow for all their winter sports! Yvonne also had some sad news to report. She lost her daughter-in-law to breast cancer last spring.

Yvonne is thankful that she has the ability to help with her two grandsons, ages five and seven, who live only ten minutes away by subway. Lynn Hoen Patton still remembers all the great times in Ocean City. “Though I am old, I am not a fogey, so hope still springs for me, even if my energies do not.” Lynn continues to spend time painting in her studio, teaching, and treasures her annual show and sale in Baltimore. She continues to enjoy life in Raleigh, NC and the presence of her sons and their families. Susan Wood Schuchts has been traveling across the country visiting granddaughters Kate and Claire in Colorado and grandson Beckett in Miami despite all the winter weather travel challenges. Susan still runs her antique business and is active in the Actors Guild of Parkersburg, Habitat

Jean Waller Brune, 1960 and her “little sister” Bonnie Blackwood Stafford, 1963

Sisters Susan Rose, 1960 and Nancy Rose Adams, 1963

for Humanity and Downtown Parkersburg.

Sandy Clark Cooper has recovered from foot surgery this past December and is continuing to provide home physical therapy for her patients a few days a week. Sandy is still making her annual trip to Hungary in the summer to teach at an English Camp. Polly Starratt Lemire is glad to be walking again after two hip replacements and spent most of the year making up for lost time visiting friends and family from coast to coast. Polly’s art supplies are rapidly taking over her recruiting business office. Merry Rozel Rogers loves her “new” home, after four and a half months of reconstruction work to reinforce the 1880s front wall of the house, ceiling work and lots of painting. Anne Carter Smith is still singing at church. She’s especially thankful for the fact that her husband came through complex open-heart surgery last year and is well on his way back to good health and vitality. Rose McCleary Alexander is still in Urbanna, VA. She’s been very busy as the chairman of the administrative board of her church. Rose and her husband Bill are primarily focused on staying healthy and enjoying each day. Jeanne Spoerer Thompson took a wonderful trip to China with friends from the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and has been loving being a grandmother to Charles Hugh, born in August. Caroline Dix Coleman has been on several birding journeys to exotic places

including China, Brazil and Ethiopia. Caroline says that “birding might seem nerdy to most, but it is quite physical! In China we were in a very mountainous region so it was a lot of hiking. A five or six mile day is not unusual, no matter where we are.” Melinda Mitchell Davis had another great year of travels to Cambodia, Vietnam and China, along with a riverboat trip from Amsterdam to Basel.

Melinda also had a great saying to share with all of us: “If you don’t look forward, you will stay behind.” Jean Waller Brune is completing her 22nd year as Head of RPCS and is enjoying every moment of the crazy RPCS springtime.

Jean’s granddaughters Idabelle and Emma are both at the Ethel Walker School. Jean wrote: If they can’t be at RPCS, at least they are having all the advantages of an independent all girls’ school in CT! Idabelle is president of her 9th grade class. I simply cannot believe I have a granddaughter in high school! My daughter Marion Brune Paterson, 1984 is now working at EW in development. I am looking forward to spending time this summer in Vermont with my family and friends. Idabelle and Emma will be at RPCS for two weeks. Emma will take two Kaleidoscope camps and Idabelle will volunteer again in our mini camp for preschoolers. Life is good!

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Class of 1961 Robin Buck Nicolls nicolls@baybroadband.net Francie Warfield Parrack rparrack@verizon.net Mimi Rand Anderson: Life has been soooo crazy! Birk and I have moved from Scituate, MA to Plymouth. I have wanted to move to this awesome golfing community since they started building it ten years ago. Finally, when I retired in 2012 we started looking and we found a wonderful home with an ocean view in the community of Pine Hills. We love it but have some furniture to buy as it is twice the size of my little carriage house we left in Scituate. I wanted to be able to have more of my kids and grands visit together so now we have much more room. We moved in September and came down to Florida to our home here in October for five weeks, then home for the holidays, then back to Florida in early January. We will be here until the end of April. We will be in Baltimore for my Mom’s 98th birthday on August 2, so hopefully I can see some my RPCS friends. Hi to everyone!

Gail Gathmann Becker: After so many years of returning to Maryland to visit my mother, about every five weeks these past two years, it seems odd not to have her to speak with. She was the last link with my childhood, and every time something interesting or related to my past happened, I’d call or write. She was amazing and complaint-free up to her death at 104. We continue to spend a lot of time in Colorado. We have vacationed in Pagosa Springs for over thirty some years, and both our children are in the Denver area. I am behind schedule with my writing, but I’m working every day to complete mystery number three with Kate, Josh and Monty (For those of you who have been kind enough to read my first two books, you’ll know who I mean.). Hopefully, I’ll be finished by summer.

I’ll have Robin or Francie give a heads up when it’s uploaded on Amazon. If you visit Kansas or Colorado, please contact me. It would be fun to show you around. Best wishes to everyone. Cathy Turner Carter: Before Jack died, we went to France to the Rhone Valley, Normandy and Paris. Great trip. We went to Jack’s 50th Princeton Reunion in May and to Texas on business and pleasure. We were in Baltimore for Thanksgiving, my Aunt May’s 90th birthday, Jack’s niece’s graduation from Towson University and for Jack’s 74th birthday. We also celebrated our 13th anniversary on December 20. I want to say

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Carolynne Card Shumate, 1961 and her husband Roland on their 50th anniversary

thank you for the notes, calls and emails you’ve sent to me. I felt your hugs, sympathy and sorrow, and you helped me a great deal.

Thank you, wonderful classmates. Frankie Whitescarver Cook: Whew, what a winter, eh?

It’s not as bad for us out here where we’re used to it and expect it, but I’ve cringed for everyone in the east and midwest - you guys got the whey kicked out of you! They could have used a little more of the white stuff and cold in Sochi, and certainly the moisture in California; too bad we don’t get to choose where it goes!

I’m in temporary quarters - a tiny one-bedroom apartment I fondly call my closet - while we wait for my Fraser house to sell so we (my son Warren, a contractor and investor) can buy the house I want in this Denver suburb of Lakewood. I’ve been inconvenienced a couple of times because my stuff is in storage, but otherwise I’m keeping busy with a training course in Stephen Ministry and several book study groups. I’m fortunate to have both sons and my grandson in the area so we get together for dinner and a movie whenever something good comes out, like The Hobbit. We all love those and the Marvel comic specials. I’m keeping the books for Warren’s company and trying to work in genealogy research. Sending my best and warmest to all! Millie Panetti Gibson: Dave and I started out thinking we were going to visit only Carmel, CA and our friends and were persuaded to “go the mile” and visit Vancouver, British Columbia and Victoria, and were we glad we did! Vancouver is delightful with friendly people, great places to eat, shop (although I did little of this),

explore and marvel at all the areas of the city which were different and unique: Stanley Park, Vancouver Art Gallery, Granville Island, University of British Columbia Botanical Gardens, Queen Elizabeth Park, and marveled at the Museum of Antropology at UBC which was so expansive and informative that it defies description. While in Victoria we wished for two or three more days. We went to the famous Butchard Gardens which is a must and again met fascinating people, toured the government building, took tours of “neighborhoods” and then traveled to Carmel. We loved being there again and had a great time visiting areas we had not seen before. This past summer our boat gave us a little trouble so we are looking forward to being on it with no problems this coming summer. We are having great times with Emily (12) and Amy (10) and they are beginning to parallel ski! Although I worry about the condition of the world I really do try to keep it all in perspective. I hope you do as well! Tyson Greer: Jim and I loved traveling back to Scotland’s Orkney and Shetland Islands last spring, not expecting that I would also travel to Shanghai and to Dubai for my company (Ambient Insight) to give presentations on Mobile Learning. Since RPCS taught me to be a lifelong learner, of course I took a little extra time while in Dubai and went out in the desert to a wildlife preserve (in a 1950s Land Rover with six South African foodie writers - long story) and enjoyed a lengthy session with a raptor specialist.

“Flying” a Barn Owl, Hawk Owl and a Harris Hawk was the thrill of a lifetime. I turned 70 in 2013, so that’s saying something. Riding the camel was pretty cool too. I’m working on the second draft of my novel (which is not set in a foreign country). Merry Gladding Highby: John and I are now permanently moved into the house that my grandfather built in 1926. The bathrooms were redone and other updates were made. Hopefully, our house in Guilford will sell soon. A family celebration was held when Amanda Highby, 1991 made the Dean’s list in her first semester of the nursing program at Towson. Amanda has a son Nicholas (6) and a daughter Jillian (2). I keep in touch with Cynthia Neesemann and Dee (De Ette Wilkinson Tomka). Condict Saint Martak: 2013 was a great year. The Northeast Food Pantry that Dave and I run has blossomed. We serve 120-140 families a month and are open five days a week, except days that the senior center is closed. We have been blessed to join the Govan’s Ecumenical Development Corporation and guarantee the continuance of the pantry when we can no longer do the work required. The highest point of the year, however, was the celebration of my 70th, when Dave and I took three children,

spouses and seven grandchildren, ages two to 12, to Emerald Isle, NC for a week at the beach. It was wonderful fun and all the cousins got along with each other the whole time. As 2014 starts, we, like everyone, are tired of snow and cold. We are looking forward to spring and weekend camping. Robin Buck Nicolls: Like many, I have not much news to report. We lost our beloved puppy Mollie to cancer last May. She was only eight. In August, we adopted a new yellow lab from a rescue group in Annapolis. She was from Darlington, SC and was going to be euthanized. We guess that she was a puppy mill mother as she has had many puppies. Because of her southern roots, we named her Dixie! She has had a rough life but is a sweet, loving dog. I continue to take classes at Washington College as well as volunteer at the humane society here and at Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge. Most of my time involves teaching seventh grade online students with Calvert. Francie Warfield Parrack: Last May brought a gathering in Baltimore for lunch that was arranged by Gail.

Babs Norris Woodward, Merry Gladding Highby, Trimmie Marlow Shelton, Sandy Kamtman Stellmann, Robin Buck Nicholls, Debbie Smyth Terry, Cathy Turner Carter, Dorrie Boone Talbott, Leilani Mandris Sifakis, Elizabeth Turner Gehrke, Annie Struven Graham and Ashby duButts were there. It was good to see everyone and catch up. In August we spent a week at the Outer Banks with our family. This year the weather was terrific. Parker (4) and Alaina (3½), enjoyed the beach and hunting for shells. I keep busy with volunteer work and quilting. So much fabric; so little time. Betsy Randall-David: I’ve

had a busy and fun year. Highlights include welcoming grandprize number five into our family. She’s a delightful little sprite and we are so pleased she has rounded out our family. We now have five grandprizes: three girls and two boys. I’ve done some fun traveling - a trip to Mexico in December and a trip to Ghana in January. The trip to Mexico was really an homage to my favorite artist, Frida Kahlo. We visited her home and several museums that feature her works. Very inspirational. I spent my 70th birthday in Ghana. I was there to do work but the folks I was training gave me a birthday party. It seems I exceeded their life expectancy in Ghana by six years so much was made of that fact. The tradition is for the birthday person to do a solo dance for what seemed like five hours, but was more like five minutes. Definitely a humbling experience to dance alone while everyone clapped, took photos and encouraged me through clapping and hooting. I won’t be mentioning my age again anytime soon, at least not in Africa!

Future travel plans include a train trip across Canada this summer with my sister Anne, and a trip in the fall to Venice, Florence and Tuscany. I feel like I need to do these things while I can still hike around. I saw Jane McCleary Saral last spring when I was in Atlanta. It is always so easy for us to pick right up where we left off, whether that was two years or ten months ago. Nothing else except I am still trying to cut back on work, but never seem to manage it. That quote under my photo in the RPCS yearbook so little time, so much to do seems to have followed me around my whole life! Jane McCleary Saral: I’ve been tutoring for SAT, ACT and AP tests in recent

Members of the Class of 1961 (back l. to r.) Ashby duButts, Gail Gathmann Becker, Sandy Kamtman Stellmann, Leilani Mandris Sifakis, Dorrie Boone Talbott, Babs Norris Woodward, Annie Struven Graham, Trimmie Marlow Shelton, Merry Gladding Highby and (seated l. to r.)

Francie Warfield Parrack, Cathy Turner Carter, Robin Buck Nicolls, Debbie Smyth Terry and Elizabeth Turner Gehrke

Tyson Greer, 1961 with a Harris Hawk in Dubai

years, after retiring from full-time teaching in 2006. I just ended an eight-week stint back full-time (for a paternity leave!) and am happy to be back to my normal busyness. I love having my three granddaughters nearby here in Atlanta. Charlotte is nine and the twins Lily and Paige are five. We read a lot and go to lots of theater. I treasure my women friends, with whom I walk, go to films, lectures and theater, and share whatever this stage of life is throwing at us. Continue to chip away at the clutter, making minimal progress. Look forward to hearing everyone’s news. Sue Brewington Schier: I don’t have much to report from Maine other than I am sick of winter and looking forward to visits south to see friends and family in April. Health, job, car are in good shape so all is well in my world. Hope to connect on next visit to Baltimore! Joanne Garrard Schill: We’re loving living on Gibson Island and I still go back to Baltimore a couple of times a week for meetings and Bridge. The seven grandkids were down this weekend to go to a celebration of Dr. Seuss at the Club replete with blue fish punch and green scrambled eggs and ham while their parents, Lyle and I enjoyed a little break with dinner at the Grill. As usual I find myself grateful for my RPCS education. Currently this is because I’m writing the Garden Club article in the monthly Gibson Island Newsletter. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize I’d signed onto that when I

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agreed to be recording secretary. On a religious note, Lyle is President of the Board of Trustees of our little St. Christopher by the Sea and as a result, we go to church almost every Sunday!

This is new for us. We used to go just to get the kids to Sunday School. Then as empty nesters, we went occasionally. We’ll be in Delray Beach, FL until after Easter or at least I will.

Lyle will fly back and forth as he’s still working hard and enjoying it. Annie Struven Graham is there so I see her occasionally. She’s quite a golfer! Our Book Club has enjoyed two good books in a row which is a little unusual: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd and Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I would love any suggestions for Book Club. Carolynne Card Shumate: For our 50th wedding anniversary, we cruised to Panama in February, and we will be taking a Tauck river cruise in August.

Chelsea Shumate, 2022 will enter her sixth year at RPCS in September. We love living in Florida. Bike tour today! Love to everyone.

Dorrie Boone Talbott: As I write, Jim and I are in Hong Kong for a 16 day cruise of Asia. We are going to Taiwan, Okinawa, Kobe, Japan, Hiroshima, Shanghai, Seoul and Beijing. The one thing I am most excited about is that when in Kobe, we will meet up with Nobu Maehori and go by train with her to Kyoto to see her home city. What a treat it will be to see her again! Perhaps we can get the Baltimore and surrounding areas gals together this spring for lunch. We always have such a great time.

Meanwhile, I do not have anything else to add.

All seven kids are doing fine, as are the 12 grandchildren. Fortunately, no one is with us now! Lee Walker: I believe this is my first offering. I moved from Sonoma County, CA to Jersey City to care for my first grandson Moseley. I will only say, this was a major adjustment to city living and the weather. It is a wonderful city where there are 70 languages spoken and an easy subway ride to Manhattan and all that offers. I am still a property owner in Glen Ellen and expect to return there spring of 2015. I have one unmarried son Evan, living on the eastern shore and my eldest Web is married to Erin and lives here. They travel for work and I am their granny nanny. They have a home in Bellevue where I go for escape from city living. Babs Norris Woodward: The past year has been good...a fishing trip to Montana, a couple of short trips to the beach with grand kids, a lot of gardening and far too much snow. I hope you are all well. Nora O’Donovan Yaggy: I really have no news and that, in my mind, is not all bad. Michael is fully retired and is trying to perfect his golf game. I am retired and am trying to get up the nerve to clean out the basement. Children all seem to be fine, as are the grandchildren.

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Class of 1963 50th Reunion Frances Rutherford frannie.rutherford@mhfi.com It was just fabulous to celebrate our 50th Reunion! I could go on, but I’ll let Libby Baker’s splendid recap cover it for me: It dawned on me why I felt more connected to everyone this time, even more than other reunions. It’s because of the updates in our new yearbook! I knew something about everyone to begin with and it facilitated more in-depth conversations through the weekend.

You all have been doing so many different things and on different journeys! Also, I think coming together to see Laurie McCulloch Fisher honored as the Alumnae McCauley Bowl recipient was a plus in pulling us together. We were all so proud of her (and fun to see her blush). Peg Schmeiser Markowski ‘s hilarious and moving toast to us with the old stories also brought us together past and present. Miss Kelly would be proud, Peg! Many thanks to Edie Chapman Gillis and Laurie for putting together the slide show and gifting it to each of us. And thanks to Barrie Frey Sigler, Susan Townshend Townsend and Laurie for being wonderful hosts, feeding us such delicious meals and providing delightful surrounds for us to gather together in. (Oops, ending with a preposition - Miss Kelly is sighing.) Last but not least, thanks to Ginna Naylor who kept everything organized. One more thanks to those who took the time,

Grandchildren of Susan Townshend Townsend, 1963

Granddaughter of Patti Bedford Gaede, 1963

trouble and expense to come a long way. You added so much and it was wonderful to see you. Libby later adds: Slowly, slowly developing our urban homestead in Mt. Washington with edible forest, perennials and water harvesting. We had a great trip to Israel/ Palestine in June for our daughter-in-law’s sister’s Palestinian wedding. Lots of snow this winter and I loved it. Other classmates who sent news (in no particular order): Kate Grimes Weingarten: Since October, what we have done is accommodate to where we are at this point in our lives. Guess what? Not all roses, but we support each other and are well and find joy in the world and each other. Fran Cleveland Corcoran: I am moving to Portland, OR after 40+ years in Boston and Manchester, MA. Retiring from Fidelity Investments, happy to be closer to grandsons in San Francisco and to be embarking on a new chapter. Would love to connect with anyone on that coast. Laurie McCulloch Fisher: I’ve decided to move back to Mountain Lakes, NJ where Dave and I spent 18 years. We pretty much brought up our children there so it feels like I’m going home. My youngest daughter Annie has moved from NYC to Mountain Lakes with her husband and twin two-year-old boys. She’s having another baby in July, so a local granny nanny will be useful and fun. My house went on the market last Sunday and by Tuesday I had an offer which is super nice. Hopefully, all will go smoothly and the sale will happen. It’s a special house. Nancy Rose Adams: In October, just after the wonderful reunion, our daughter Molly married Mark Harter in

Members of the Class of 1963 following the 50th Reunion Tea

Lewes, DE. They live in Madison, NJ and both work in New York City so we get to visit often.

Our daughter Julie and her husband Keith Koenig live in Frederick, MD and have our two precious grandchildren. We took the children and grandchildren to the Natural History Museum in New York by train at Christmastime and all stayed with the newlyweds in New Jersey. Ed and I went again to Siesta Key, FL for six weeks and were able to see Ginna Naylor and her husband and thank her for encouraging me to come back to RPCS. I loved seeing all the “girls” and sharing stories of what has happened to us in the very quick moving 50 years since graduation. I enjoy retirement and stay busy with our community exercise class and book club. Ed gets to play golf often and our children visit us at the beach both in Delaware and in Florida.

Susan Townshend Townsend: Since our reunion in October, I have spent most of the winter skiing in the west between my home in Colorado and Tom’s in Utah. The skiing has been great and time with family, especially my four grandchildren and friends, has been special. My family also had an exceptionally nice Christmas this year. It was one of those times when everyone (all 30 of us!) could be present and enjoy each other. It is especially meaningful for me and my sisters, Pam Townshend Neale, 1966 and Nancy Townshend Haas, 1969 to see all of the cousins of two generations have fun together.

In the spring, I am looking forward to a trip to Sicily with an art history group and enjoying the summer at home. I hope our class can continue to get together as we did preparing for our 50th! Patti Bedford Gaede: We’re enjoying the winter in Vero Beach with plenty

of golf and tennis. RPCS had a mini gettogether here, which was lots of fun at the home of Betsy McPherson Morgan. We’ll be back in Cincinnati for the summer, which will give me lots of special time with granddaughter Quinn! Barrie Frey Sigler: A sixth Sigler grandchild arrived on the scene in November, Eleanor Tottle Sigler-McCann. Her middle name is from my mother’s family so that’s a happy thing. I have retired (again) from my part-time job in Admissions at RPCS, and now am having fun with the six little people, friends and exploring family history. Richard and I visited my brother Skip (who is married to Richard’s sister, Marylou) in Orlando and had

a lovely adult vacation. The only park we went to was Universal to see the Harry Potter exhibit. It was marvelous! The town of Hogsmeade is just charming. It was grand to be in warm weather and not have to wear a coat! Peg Webster Coolidge: Have been in Austin, TX for the winter with my stepson’s family awaiting the arrival of our 11th grandchild. He arrived on March 28th. This makes the third boy for them! Must admit that we are very proud grandparents! Somehow they keep us young. We will have one grandson who will be a senior in college and one granddaughter off to college. The rest are spread out from high school to preschool!

Sorry to have missed the reunion, but loved the CD! We haven’t changed at all in 50 years!

Betsy Clapp Champlin: What fun we had at reunion last fall! All that fun and frolic brought a mighty winter that just won’t let go. But life goes on and with all-wheel drive I did get around. I continue with lots of activities to make me happy to jump out of bed every morning. Of course an old dog (15) helps too!

He needs to get out early and often. Anyway I continue with Garden Club and the juniors who are so creative. Give them the same materials and they all come up with something original. I continue to volunteer at a food pantry every week. The need continues to escalate each month. I am involved with my Presbyterian church in the choir, cooking for the Lunch Bunch and in a prayer and Bible study. I do indulge myself with a needlepoint class at the Handicraft Club. Of course there is a majority of my time spent with family and friends. Happy Spring, yes we have never missed one even if it was very short!

Family of Betsy Clapp Champlin, 1963

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Class of 1964 Connie Sparrow connie.sparrow@verizon.net

The Class of 1963’s 50th Reunion Committee (front l. to r.); Susan Townshend Townsend, Barrie Frey Sigler (back) Edie Chapman Gillis, Frannie Rutherford, Suzi Wenger O’Brien, Peg Schmeiser Markowski, Laurie McCulloch Fisher and Ginna Naylor

Helen Sanger: There has been a whirlwind aspect to my experience since our Reunion. In October I had a road trip from Arizona to Idaho and back delivering some of my sister’s furniture to her daughter and family.

Thanksgiving I spent in Portland, OR with my son Grant and his boys. All of December and most of March I have been at my daughter Kara’s in Rio Rancho by Albuquerque, NM. In December her husband Pete was hurting and anticipating hip surgery in late winter. He is the child care dad; I was helping out. The surgery was performed early in March. His recovery is going wonderfully. I plan to be in Arizona once again by the middle of April.

Suzi Wenger O’Brien: I just wanted to say again what a wonderful time I had at our 50th Reunion! It was so great seeing everyone and catching up on old and recent news. I’m still working, which amazingly allows me to schedule my day so that I’m able to attend all of my grandchildren’s sporting events and award ceremonies. This means the world to

Frannie Rutherford, 1963 and Starr Bowie, 1963 with Fifth Grade Pen Pals

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me! I’m also actively looking into volunteering with returning veterans, a passion dear to my heart. We’re going to the Outer Banks in June with my daughter, her husband Jack and Quinn. Always a fabulous vacation! If anyone comes through Baltimore, or lives here, please call me as I’d love to get together. Katherine McCleary: Writing this takes me back to last October and the joy of being with our class again. I’m remembering (among many other things!) Laurie’s dollhouse and the view from her deck, downhill, out over the water, the warm days of Indian summer. Back at home, I am doing just what I was doing before our Reunion: working, loving Dan, being with my son and grandchildren. The change is now having to figure out whether I will take a shower or water my plants. We, on the west coast, are in a severe drought, with California having received so far this year, less rain than in any year for the past 150. In April I will be in Kansas for five days attending a conference with 100 other people exploring the interface between spirit and emotional and physical healing. We stay at a church camp out in the Flint Hills, in cabins with bunk beds. I can still make it to the top bunk! My interest in what living love is, continues and enriches me and my work. And from the 1963 Class Rep, Frances Rutherford: I’m still working full time at McGraw Hill Construction, which is for sale! It’ll all turn out just right, but in case I’m thrust into my next thing sooner rather than later, I’m contemplating more writing, art, photography and travel in my future, check out my blog!

Ginny Wood Delauney writes: Our daughter Anne was married to Ben Baker last October in Saratoga Springs, NY. They live in Southington, CT and she does annual giving at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington. Our son Clay is an editor for the World Poker Tour in LA and directs and produces short films in his spare time. Robby is still with Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, but works from home several days a week. I, of course, am still at Roland Park and loving it. Can’t wait for our 50th in October. I hope everyone will try to come. Over the last 22 years, I have enjoyed watching members of the 50th Reunion Class reconnect. Life experiences forge new friendships and people who were not necessarily close in high school, leave at the end of the weekend good friends.

Marie Baker Spaulding (Mimsie) shares: Recently I went to a gathering of DC area RPCS alumnae and spent most of the night talking with Betsy Athey and Ginny about reunion activities. Livvie Streett Rasmussen offered me a bed for the weekend, so I may even come over to go to classes on Thursday prior to the Reunion - that would be an experience!

I got a new hip in March 2013 and it works just fine. I won two raffles sponsored by the Animal Welfare League of Arlington, VA and each of the two prizes covered the price of a room for two! So, Sam and I spent five nights at a coffee plantation in Panama in March (absolutely beautiful surroundings, perfect weather and totally unpolluted air unlike any I have seen in years) and we will spend seven nights at a resort in Antigua in late October/ early November. I could not believe that I won twice! In late April, Sam and I head to the Jazz Festival in New Orleans - it is so much fun and we can hardly wait! I will go to Chicago in June for an art and design conference and then visit some friends in Madison, WI.

Patti Bedford Gaede, 1964 with her husband Jim and past parents Ted and Mary Lou Bedford

Molly Clark Pratt, 1960, Jean Waller Brune, 1960, Betsy McPherson Morgan, Ann Howard Veghte, 1947, Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964 and Patti Bedford Gaede, 1963 in Vero Beach, FL

Phyllis Gatch Harbert writes: Right now we are diving in Roatan, so you know we’re having fun. Last year we got in another couple dive trips. We spend over a month every summer in the mountains of New Mexico because Oklahoma is usually really hot! Plenty of tennis, hiking, etc. What was really a riot was recently connecting to a couple of old beaux. I found a 1954 Baltimore Sun photo of me and a bunch of other kids in choir robes for the annual Homeland Christmas caroling by the lakes. I thought the one person I recognized would love to have a scan. Googled him right up, sent a snail mail. He sure loved hearing from me and would love the photo copy. We had been friends since third grade. I had gone to his wedding, even, a million years ago. A flurry of emails and current family photos ensued. Then a flurry of shots from college.

From there, one of his best friends I dated got in the mix. Fun to reminiscence, but boy, I wouldn’t want to go back! And speaking of going back, I think we probably won’t make the reunion, but won’t close the door completely.

I will let you know closer to the event. So much depends on Wally’s work. If he has an installation, off we will have to go. He turns 75 this year and has no plans to retire. All our best! Brooke Mangels Travelstead forwarded: Malcolm and I did lots of traveling last year South Carolina, Arizona, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Rhode Island - mostly with friends and family. My daughter Page had her second child in July - a boy named Ian. So we have two grandchildren who have brought so much

fun and happiness to our lives. Son Andrew got married in October in Montecito, CA where the whole family stayed for a glorious week. Why doesn’t everybody live in Santa Barbara!? He and his new bride Deven live in Los Angeles, which we’ve actually come to love. We love Deven too! I still do interior design projects occasionally, which keeps my hand in it. Being this old allows me to do only the jobs I want to. Ha! Malcolm is still on the board of Poly Prep in Brooklyn and I am still

involved with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Plant Sale each spring. I return to my book club in Brooklyn once a month rain or shine. All this from our farm in Climax, NY where we’ve been for 31 years. I’m so looking forward to our 50th! I’m hoping I can persuade Goli Irani Farrell to come, but it doesn’t look promising.

Everybody email her! Celeste Woodward Applefeld (Sis) shares: If I am not in Baltimore, I am in Rye, NY visiting the grandchildren and oh yes, son Lewis and daughter-in-law Pam. Nicholas is now three and the twins Lexi and Paige, are 20 months. That, plus building a house, makes for a busy year. They are building (thankfully almost done) in Rye, NY (unfortunately, not in Baltimore). Or I am in Charleston visiting Grace and Will and becoming familiar with the charming city. Living there would be challenging to the waistline. Mark is often traveling with me, but his crazy work schedule means that he is not always free to roam. Looking forward to Reunion and once again enjoying everyone’s company. Lin Turner Hardy’s news is: The grandchildren are great and we enjoy school concerts, plays and pageants. Last winter February, 2013, Bill and I traveled with a tour to Argentina and Chile - Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Cape Horn, Blue Mountains and Santiago. We continue to volunteer year round at GBMC’s Nearly New semi-annual sales. And I just finished my 15th year working tax season for an accounting firm. I am looking forward to seeing lots of old friends at the reunion in October! Patricia Voneiff Finney writes: Busy 2013 filled with three granddaughters living in St Louis. Another grandchild is due in August which will make a very full house for oldest

Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964 at Anne’s wedding with Clay, Anne, Ben and Robby

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Class of 1965 Carol Blankenship Davis carolbdavis@verizon.net

Brooke Mangels Travelstead, 1964, Dolly Alevizatos von Hollen, 1986 and Janice Moore, Director of Libraries in NYC

son Spencer and his wife Jodie. Younger son Jack just started a new construction/ development business and is doing well. Jerve has retired, but continues to be involved in politics and plays squash three times a week.

Returning from Annapolis where we lived for seven years, we have settled in a townhouse in Charlesbrooke. Loving the convenience of living in town. Certainly one of the perks is being able to bother Ginny. I continue my interest in my garden club which involves me in several civic projects. We also continue our love of Nova Scotia where we go for a month in the summer. I, Connie Sparrow, cracked my right ankle last February. Hurt my lower back (too much field hockey in college coming back to haunt me). Otherwise, everything is normal.

So much snow this year with two townhouse listings and out of town owners, I shoveled snow five times! I taught genealogy seminars at the Anne Arundel County North Library. I am going to teach four class sessions on the ABCs of Genealogy at Anne Arundel Community College in June. I am now president of the Huguenot Society of Maryland. Keep sending me your news and notes. I couldn’t do the 1964 Class Notes without you all and the internet. Please send me your email addresses so that they are current.

Betsy Athey, 1964, Mimsy Baker Spaulding, 1964, and Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964

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Well another year has flown by and we are that much closer to our 50th Reunion year where I hope to see you all. I keep mentioning this so that you will put the first weekend of October 2015 on your calendars. The plans for that weekend will begin this year so I would appreciate your giving some thought. Please let me know what you want to do and if you would like to be involved in the planning.

Now, on to the updates that some of you have sent. Helen Armiger is now serving at a very old church in Windsor Mill, MD that is smaller than her previous church, but where the people are very sweet, pleasant and welcoming. She has moved to an apartment in Catonsville, which is surrounded by lots of trees, birds and squirrels and is enjoying everything that Catonsville has to offer including good restaurants and shops. She is content and her life is less stressed than in the past. Her son Jake is working for John Kerry, Secretary of State, so he travels a lot. In September, Jake and his wife Martina will move to New Delhi with the Foreign Service where he will be handling diplomatic relations with India, Pakistan and China. Martina will continue as a global consultant for Mercy Corps. Helen is looking forward to visiting them and hopefully seeing our classmate Lata Katey Gadgil. Elizabeth McCleary PrimroseSmith had another adventurous year traveling.

Last May found her in Umbria, a beautiful part of Italy, staying in a converted farmhouse that a friend had won in a charity auction.

While there, she visited many little hill towns as well as Assisi, Orvieto and Spoleto. From there she went to Brussels to visit another friend and also toured Normandy and World War II museums as well as one devoted to the 1000 year old Bayeux Tapestry. She also did some champagne tasting while in the French Champagne region. In November, she and her husband took a cruise in the Middle East from Istanbul to Dubai through the Suez Canal and Red Sea. They saw Petra and Lawrence of Arabia haunts as well as Jerusalem and Oman.

They were in the UAE during the 42nd anniversary of the uniting of the Arab states so enjoyed all the festivities and partying associated with that celebration. She described Dubai as a cross between Disneyland and Las Vegas on steroids! Due to the political situation, several stops in Egypt were cancelled.

She was disappointed not to be able to see some of the things on her bucket list like the

Pyramids. The ship was on a 24 hour “pirate watch” as they sailed through the Red Sea and the passengers had to participate in pirate drills! She is looking forward to the 50th Reunion and seeing all of her old friends. Betty Cooper Smith wrote from her house in the historic district of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The house is now on a website for booking rooms or homes throughout the globe. (I thoroughly enjoyed touring her home which she owns with her longtime friend, Mark Peyton.) There, she is now going by the name of “Swann” from her Grandma Swannannoa. She has been meeting interesting people from all over the world. She is still clearing and planting on their finca (farm) up the mountain where the plan is to have a few casitas for ecotourism. This summer she will have double knee replacement surgery that she has put off and she asks for prayers and good thoughts from everyone for successful surgery and recovery. She wants to be standing tall at the 50th! Anne Nicholas Costain and her husband Doug now are both retired. They survived the Boulder thousand year flood in September. Despite the flooding, her college roommate and her husband, who had planned to visit during a western road trip, stayed with them for several days and helped repair some minor damage. As she said, “Life is unpredictable.” Vivien Davis Tsu continues to travel for work, Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Geneva and Philippines last year and Ghana, Philippines and Kenya planned for this year so far. In October she and Theta had a great four day trip canyoneering in southern Utah, sliding or crawling through slot canyons and doing contortions through beautiful red rock formations that she would have never expected to do at this point of her life! Her biggest news was that their younger son Jonathon got married to his longtime girlfriend from college, Madeleine. It was a small, but lovely wedding in Northern Virginia where they live with their two cats. The rest of her family is well including her other son Michael, her mom (87) who lives independently there in Seattle and Theta’s parents (95 and 92) in LA. Nancy Davidson Neal sent some wonderful news which, after her news last year of the death of her beloved Bill, should make you all smile. She writes: I feel amazingly blessed and graced by God. Rick Brazill from Wichita, KS and I will wed on Easter Sunday morning at a small chapel with our families by our side. From the grief and pain over the loss of our spouses, we see a new season of joy opening up for us. So much to be thankful and grateful for. Nancy and Rick met while both of their spouses were being treated for terminal cancer in Arizona. I know that you all wish Nancy and Rick a very happy life together. Mimi Hayward is living full time

Martha Gomer, 1965 Honored by Salem College Salem alumna Martha Gomer has received the inaugural Martha Gomer Outstanding Child Nutrition Supervisor Award, which was established by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in Gomer’s name to honor her exemplary service in the critical area of child nutrition. The award was presented at a state meeting of the North Carolina School Nutrition Association (SNA), held last summer.

Throughout a long career in child nutrition, beginning in Charlotte in 1991, Gomer worked tirelessly to improve the quality of food for the children of Mecklenburg and Wake Counties. Her involvement with the national and state School Nutrition Association over the years, including serving as an officer, has helped influence critical guidelines for children’s nutrition in schools.

Her enthusiasm and participation with NCSNA was recognized by the Department of Public Instruction, which established the award in her honor. The recognition includes an annual scholarship that will be awarded to a professional school nutrition supervisor who possesses the qualities of leadership exemplified by Gomer: dedication, leadership, and the desire to improve the overall health of the children.

now at her farm in Glen Rock, PA eight miles from Maryland Line straight up I-83. She counts over 50 mouths to feed when there is snow and ice including horses, goats, ducks, geese, two potbellied pigs and the usual dogs and cats. She still researches and writes National Register nominations for different old parts of the city. She is also involved in an effort to restore and re-open the old Peale Museum as a center for Baltimore history and architecture. There are several million needed to pull this off. She is also the curator of a small museum called the Irish Railroad Workers Museum in two houses, a half block north of the B&O Railroad Museum, that were built before 1850 and housed early railroad workers. Her daughter, Milly Brugger, 2007, is in a master’s nursing program at JHU and is looking forward to spreading her wings and flying away when she finishes. Susan Gelston Mink has had a most exciting year including moving to a beautiful new townhouse in Thornton Wood, time in Florida and Martha’s Vineyard.

She had a fabulous Christmas with her daughters Liza and Maggie followed by a family trip to Keystone, CO at a ski resort (Susan does not ski), but says it’s fun to spend time with the grandkids. She writes: We also received a wonderful gift last April when our daughter-in-law Nicole Rock Mink, 1998 blessed us with yet another girl child,

Elizabeth Bosworth Mink. Just waiting to see what the next one, due in July, will be! She had a wonderful visit in Florida with Emmie Mink Frank, 1995 and her two children, Connor and Abby. The entire family travelled to Vail, CO for a wedding in September and got to spend time with every child and most grandchildren. Susan enjoys spending time with Pam Fenhagen Corckran whenever they are both home. Life is good! Calla Pappas Merkle celebrated her mom’s (Chrysanthe) 90th birthday at Pappas’ Restaurant with 80 people all related by blood or marriage. It was a great celebration and a fitting tribute. On the other side of her generations, she and Rick are enjoying very much their four-year-old granddaughters, Dahlia and Molly. Three of their four children have settled in Baltimore with one in Seattle. She is still very active in her church and helping out with older members of her family. Calla was a wonderful host when she opened her lovely home to those of us in the area who were available to enjoy a warm early October evening with way too much food and probably drink! As always the time flew by and a good time was had by all. Carla Eger Brumfield’s life was “pretty much ditto to last year’s info and activities” until one of Andrew’s two-year-old twins, Cole, was diagnosed with leukemia, thankfully the most treatable and curable type. He spent three

weeks in the Children’s Center at Hopkins, going home on Christmas Eve. He will have intense treatment into the summer before he is ready for maintenance. Carla and Cole’s other grandmother from Roanoke have been sharing nanny duties and are very happy to do it. A later email from Carla indicated that the treatments are going well and there is hope that he will be completely clear by his fifth birthday in August 2016. I know we will all keep the family in our prayers. Mutzi Marek Jones and husband Nip did their annual trip to Ft. Myers Beach in February and then in May she and her daughter Shelby went to Prague, Czech Republic to visit family there including a man she has known since she was 18 and who had been in a concentration camp twice in his lifetime. She met a new cousin there with whom she has continued to correspond. She found it an interesting culture and a beautiful country with equally beautiful, hardworking people. Following their time there, they spent several days sightseeing in Paris before returning home. She and Nip have become the proud parents of an adorable red apricot poodle who, when she wrote, was four pounds at nine months old. This filled the terrible void left when they lost their other “baby” the year before. Bet this puppy won’t be spoiled in the least. In October, she was told that she would be paralyzed if she didn’t have cervical spine surgery by the end of the week. With this surgery she now has 16 discs fused with rods and is feeling great. She is looking forward to a healthy 2014 with no surgeries. Martha Mueller Cook wants us to know that most importantly, she is now a grandmom of Jane (13 months) and Emmett (eight months as of January 2014), since both of her daughters had their first child about the same time. Both live in Brooklyn. Martha spends a lot of time there, especially since she often has a “free” hotel room because her husband Greg does consulting work in NYC. She is still doing leadership coaching work but now only parttime leaving more time for travel. In October she was in Morocco for two weeks with National Geographic Active Tours and was planning trips to Cayman Islands (January), Ireland and Miami (March) and Cambodia and Vietnam (October). She is a member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, which provides learning and conversational opportunities with others our age and has her doing her homework to keep up with the smart and distinguished group. She writes: As some of you know, my mom Frances Mueller passed in March. It was time for her to go. She had a very difficult last few years and I miss her a lot.

I was so lucky to have had her here until I was 65. Several of you sent me lovely notes of remembrance. Thank you. Many of us had

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Calla Pappas Merkle, 1965 with her family

Mrs. Mueller for a teacher and remember her well. Sadly, we lost another class parent when Helen Tayloe Lambert’s dad Ogle Tayloe died the same month. Helen writes: He was 95, full of love, but not of life, ready to answer the call. Our deepest sympathy goes to both Martha and Helen. Helen’s other news mentioned that her sons are working together in the engineering firm that her oldest began, off the streets and healthy! She and Mike continue doing the work they enjoy, he renovating older Michigan cottages and she teaching reading K-5. Her brother Bo, his “saintly” wife and four children are in good shape. This winter has been especially cold and it looked like it was to continue that way. She said that the beauty of the snow makes up only a little for the fuel bills! Kate Wise and hubby have bought a new beach house in a new area near Bethany Beach. While she loves the house she does not love wintering there. She likes life in the big city and isn’t ready to retire especially since her real estate business has gotten so much busier with the housing market recovery.

Since her husband hates the traffic and pace of DC, he has moved full time to Delaware. She says that they are “dating” again and at our age there is a lot to recommend that lifestyle.

As an example, he took her to The Inn at Little Washington for her birthday. Her other news was that she is going to be a grandma to her fourth granddaughter after being a mom to four boys! Karla Newsom had me laughing as she wrote that she was sick of seeing all these ads on TV for all sorts of ailments and wondering if she was going to get these things.

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She wishes she had gotten a facelift when it was a good idea because she hates makeup and has trouble putting on eyeliner even with the magnifying mirror! (I am sure she still looks great!) She plays a lot of duplicate bridge and some golf, but they are not traveling to Europe as they once did, not wanting to leave her old doggies. Linda Strangmann Robinson sent her update from Florida where she and sister Barbara were on their annual visit to younger sister Kathy and her family. Last year she and Zelig took several great trips in the U.S. to Massachusetts, Maine, Ocracoke, NC, then Colorado and LA, which they stretched to include a leisurely drive down Pacific Coast Highway. This year they are planning a trip to Croatia. She is still working quite a bit with her design business. She finds that her position on the board of BARCS (Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter) is proving to be an exciting and rewarding experience while at times heartbreaking as well. She feels privileged to be involved with an organization constantly striving and increasingly successful in its mission of saving the lives of more and more animals in Baltimore. It was great to hear from Jeanne Roberts Mangus after a number of years! She and Cary are both retired now and are enjoying volunteering with Meals on Wheels, Family Promise, Pack a Snack, etc.

Three days a week she is with her grandchildren, 11 years to two months and most days she visits her mom at Salem Heath and Rehab.

Jeanne moved her mom to Roanoke when she could no longer live on her own. Besides suffering from dementia, she has broken both

hips and her right elbow in the last six months.

She is 98, with little quality of life, but they try to bring a smile to her face. Sadly, this was the first summer of Jeanne’s life that she didn’t go to Ocean City or put her toes in the ocean at 12th Street. They sold the little house where her mom had lived for so many years and many of us remember well. End of an era. Toni Madrigal Martin wrote as she and Ed, now both retired, were getting ready to cruise the Caribbean in search of some warmer weather.

Her youngest grandchildren, twins Charlie and Annie, turned one in February. Her fiveyear-old, Teddy, will be leaving RPCS in June after three fabulous preschool years. She and Ed also have another grandchild, nine-year-old Wyatt, who is doing well. Toni and I were looking forward to the Valentine’s Alumnae/ Student Luncheon this year as we had done last year; she with Teddy and me with granddaughter Ava. As with so many things this winter, Mother Nature had other plans.

We plan to attend the rescheduled event in early April. As for me, Carol Blankenship Davis, 2013 couldn’t end soon enough. In March, Sam had surgery for a rare and symptomless primary site liver cancer that was discovered really by accident. After a hard two weeks in the hospital and a month of home recovery he began returning to normal. It was hoped and expected that he would be good to go, but a second follow-up scan in July found two spots that required another major surgery in September. One month after his second surgery I had an emergency appendectomy with five days in the hospital and a tough month of recovery. At this age my body just didn’t bounce back like when it was younger.

In December I lost my beloved 16 year-old dog, Murray. Though he was old it was unexpected. As it always is with these fourlegged children, it is devastating. My dad is 96 and doing surprising well. In the middle of last spring, I moved him from independent living to assisted living at Oak Crest Village where he has been for over 16 years. He is surprisingly healthy despite severe hearing loss and he is well taken care of, content and still fairly sharp mentally. Although I did not receive updates from them, I saw several of our classmates during the year and can attest that when I saw them; Margaret Gray Kincaid, Randy Saint Low, Betsy Kohlerman Winship, Bonnie Alexander, Marydele Stolte Donnelly, Nelva Hart Hall, Mary McCormick Meyer, Eve Scheffenacker and Barbara Bond are all doing fine. (I hope I didn’t forget anyone.) Once again I urge you to send me any contact information changes and if you aren’t getting emails from me, please send me that information as well. Best wishes to you all for a happy and healthy year.

Class of 1966 Ann Hurlock annhurlock@aol.com Since I received only six responses to the emails sent by RPCS and me for Class Notes, this summary will be brief. I am wondering if perhaps the email reminders are not reaching everyone. Please contact RPCS if your email address has changed over the past year! Madeleine Hampshire Tolman (Lee) just returned from a week in Jamaica with her daughter, son-in-law and her two boys.

Everyone had a great time. Debbie Schultz Woods recently directed a performance of Schubert’s Mass in G with her church choir, soloists, strings and timpani. Music continues to be her passion and direction. Debbie reports that she has reconnected with a few classmates in Baltimore including Pam Ford Charshee and Susie Merryman. Pam runs a non-profit organization, Carroll’s One Hundred, which preserves and protects the grounds around Mt. Clare Mansion. Debbie visited her daughter in Kuwait last summer and (closer to home) she had lunch with Cindy Wallace McKee and Nancy Freeman Brooks. They all agreed that the RPCS education was a firm foundation for life’s journey. Anne Nelson Apgar, though she is “retired,” is still busy with the Walter’s Women 50th Anniversary (2013) and Art Blooms (2014.) She is also busy with the South Harbor Renaissance, which is a nonprofit she founded to improve Federal Hill Park. They broke ground recently on a new playground incorporating historic icons in the play equipment. She is still singing with the St. David’s Choir. Her children are well and engaged, married and happy. Sandy and Anne still travel extensively and vow to add the Caribbean to their list of future destinations.

Jennifer Bodine informs that she is currently under contract to publish three more Bodine books about trains, horses and Annapolis. Her daughter’s movie Movement and Location is opening at the Brooklyn Film Festival in June 2014. The Bodine business is still going strong!

Candy Rose Drake sent a nice note from Ocean City, MD where she lives and works and her children are “in her life.” Her daughter Christina is planning a summer wedding (to a boy she went to high school with!) in the Florida Keys. Christina works as a teacher in Islamorada, teaching at the Treasure Village Montessori School and is living her dream.

Candy’s son Richie is studying for his master’s in May and also has a job with the State of Maryland. Eva McManus Edmonds has recently returned from a trip to Istanbul where

she savored the spices, then traveled to the Greek Islands and historic Croatia. She was also diagnosed with spinal stenosis and had a laminotomy and spinal fusion in September and thankfully is successfully recovered.

She travelled to Costa Rica in February and managed to walk across 14 suspension bridges and trudged through the jungles. She and husband Craig (who is not retiring!) are also planning a two week cruise to Norway. Eva also finds time to continue with her extensive volunteer work! Mimi Roeder Vaughan just celebrated 42 years in the travel agency. Her husband Arky passed away in December 2013.

Mimi chaired the Associated Black Charities Girls Night Out and Jada Pinkett Smith was the speaker. $83,000 was raised. A group of middle schoolers from RPCS came to the event.

Mimi and Deb Anderson Stuffel went for a weekend to Ocean City with two of Mimi’s granddaughters. Mimi was just elected to the Mayor’s Minority Council of Baltimore City and currently serves on the advisory board for CFG Bank. Mimi’s mother is married to the former president of Post Cereal and she will be going on a two week cruise to Europe in May with them. Penelope Starratt Duffy says her life this year has been mostly focused on her novel The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, which came out in the U.S. and Canada in November. Her schedule is filled with book related activities such as interviews, talks and daughter Melanie has helped with the social media. Her children and grandchildren all live nearby and continue to delight her! Penny still writes for Mayo and also finds time to serve on the Vestry of her Episcopal church. Her travels this year included trips to Oxford and Newcastle in the UK. Husband Joe still works part time and they are both in good health!

She thinks of our RPCS days often and fondly.

Mary Joe Maccubbin Clark reports she still lives in south Florida and keeps busy playing tennis, golf and volunteering. Her daughter Amy is pregnant again (a boy!) Husband Bill is fine and the kids and grandkids are a pleasure. Ann Hurlock reporting in from

Mimi Roeder Vaughan, 1966 and her grandchildren

sunny Key West, FL: Still practicing law here and in Maryland with time to play tennis and volunteer for assorted causes. My mother died in October at age 93 after a short illness. I was lucky to have her in my life for so many years.

Class of 1967 Susan Berwager Law susanlaw1@comcast.net Kathy Hudson hudmud2@gmail.com Each year seems to pass more quickly, but we are happy to report so many good times and wonderful events. I spent some extended time in Florida this winter and was able to see Patti Sager Allan, Barbara Mattingly Wilson and Alice McCormick Meiners. All are doing very well. Alice continues to do much traveling and is very busy running her travel agency, Gulf Stream Travel. She enjoys visiting her son, daughter in law and two grandchildren in California and her daughter Megan and son in law who live in Turkey. Megan is very successful designing furniture for Dorya Furniture and they have opened a branch in Miami. Megan and her husband spend some of the time in their South Beach condo. Alice’s son, Dave is very successful selling real estate in the Ocean Ridge area. Patti is living in Juno Beach, FL, and is very busy with her real estate career. She is a proud grandmother now as of this March. Barbara Mattingly Wilson reports: My son Charlie became engaged to Victoria Budosh this summer. They will be married in September and I can’t wait. Our second granddaughter (FL’s son and wife) was born last September; we now have Isabel and Penelope. FL and I spent the winter in Florida with our two dogs and two cats. We also traveled by boat down to Key West and made the crossing to the Bahamas where we spent a month cruising from island to island.

I am so glad that we missed the horrible winter in Maryland. I enjoy being with my family, walking my dogs Traveller and Auggie, playing bridge and gardening. Life is good!

Josie McCall Bossley sends us her news: Fourth grandchild born in January, Logan James Cobban to my daughter Chrissy (her second child). My son Rusty is still living in Bahrain with his wife and two children. They will most likely live there another year. Art’s daughter Lauren is still in Fort Collins, CO and loving life. All is good in Annapolis. What a great place to live! Frances Naylor Douglass reports: I’m still working part time as a school

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psychologist, after retiring from my former position. I will work one more year and also hope to do some private practice. Lathrop is really busy with his architectural career since the building business is booming in Seattle. I am very grateful for my family. Frances was in town this spring visiting her sister Ginna Naylor, 1963 and their mother, who is going strong at Roland Park Place. She will be 99 in September! Kathy Hudson reports on several classmates: I see Carol Gebelein Cavanagh regularly here in Baltimore. She and her family come from Rhode Island to visit daughter Sarah who married Skip Cornbrooks, Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks’ 1970 relative by marriage. Sarah just had her second baby, a boy. Carol now has 12 grandchildren, but still looks 30-something!

Kathy Magruder (Magoo) was in town at Christmas. She, her husband Jeff Walker and her mother went to Cuba last fall! Mrs. Magruder walks every day, plays bridge, is in two book groups and turns 95 in September.

An inspiration, as is Mrs. Downes, mother of Betsy Downes Brown. Betsy, a personal trainer, and her husband Randy Brown divide their time between Rehoboth and Charleston, SC where she and Magoo, grandmother of four, have fun together. Chesley Schultheis Garrett and her husband are building a new house in Highlands, NC. They are the proud grandparents of a granddaughter. Chesley and I were in touch regularly when Marietta Koch Nolley had surgery in April for a benign meningioma in the brain. After surgery at Hopkins, her recovery has been rapid. Directly from our superwoman: “It was amazing, and I

am happy to share, as it happens to women a lot. Fortunately, the tumor was benign, but it will take a while to recover from the surgery.”

Naturally Marietta is breaking all the recovery records and winging her way quickly back to full health. “Got an all clear from the doctor today!” says Marietta. Yea! She is ready to drive and wine and dine. Such good news! Marietta and Eddie are also proud grandparents of a granddaughter. Kathy Hudson shares: Greg and I are still on Ridgewood painting and writing. He is painting New York, and I am writing a book on the fine garden of A.C. and Penney Hubbard. We see Lucy Ritter Skeen several times a week when we’re walking on Roland Avenue and she is out gardening, more now that she has retired. Lucy retired from the Baltimore City Schools business department in December and says she has been blissfully happy ever since. “Sleeping late at last, doing lunch, at last, taking long trips to see grandchildren (five), and gardening seven days a week when it isn’t raining. When it rains, I sleep some more.” Lucy says that retirement “is the best decision I ever made.

Freedom is marvelous.” Lucy’s husband David spotted Beth Bishop managing the pony rides at the Roland Park Presbyterian Church strawberry festival. Lucy and David attended the memorial service for Francesca Schuler Guerin’s mother, held at the Schuler School.

Lucy says Francesca is running the school and spending as much time as she can on her art.

Lucy tried to convince Francesca to come to a reunion, so we shall see. Frances Naylor often stays with Lucy when she is visiting her mother at Roland Park Place. During one recent visit

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Sue, Huddy, Marietta, Frances and Anne Gelston gathered at Lucy’s for food, wine and much Motown music and dancing. We thought we were 18 again! I, Susan Berwager Law, am enjoying playing bridge and some golf, biking and spending time at Bayside, my home in Delaware. I am always hoping to gather some classmates for a reunion at the beach.

I work in Real Estate for Long and Foster, Greenspring Office. I also serve on the HOA of my community, Ruxton Crossing, where I have lived since 2001. I am so fortunate that my son Rob is living in Federal Hill. He works as an investment banker and is a partner at Shot Tower Capital located at Scarlet Place on President Street. As always, I wish everyone continued good health and happiness!

Class of 1968 45th Reunion Susan MacDCG Andrews Susan102@aol.com Travel, new grand babies, moves, retirements, illnesses overcome, new experiences! Our class has had another year of varied adventures.

Our 45th Reunion at the Hopkins Club, planned and organized by Stuart Kelly Trinkle and her generous sister Lee Kelly, 1971, was a smashing success. We are so hoping that more of you will be available for our 50th!

It is with great appreciation that I send along those comments I did receive. Email me about anyone who didn’t reply... maybe we know about her and can send along your interest. Lyn Stewart Simensen replied: A new granddaughter - Sara Mackenzie Simensen was born September 23, 2013 to our son Christian and his wife Paige. Mac joins big brother Parker. A fun winter in Florida with visits from Cathy Huether McClelland and Janet Bauer Hartman. Susan Emery Quinby is alive and well and living in NYC. After 31 years at Barnard College/Columbia University, she took a creative sabbatical in fall 2012 and has been happily re-inventing herself: since January, 2013 working as a certified doula in palliative/hospice care at Mount Sinai Medical Center and a proud graduate of the NYU Wellness Certificate Program in May 2014. Cathy McClelland writes that life is good and busy as usual. While in Florida for a couple of days we got to visit with Lyn and John Simensen. They live there a good part of the winter now. I am still doing what I have been doing for years, working at Independent Can and volunteering for the BSO. Holly Murphy Spector and Norman Spector and

Class of 1969 Marianna Spicer Joslyn Marianna.Joslyn@turner.com

Members of the Class of 1968 at the 40th & 45th Reunion Breakfast; Eve Bremermann Collard, Andy Hodges Whitney, Janet Bauer Hartman, Stuart Kelly Trinkle, Cathy Huether McClelland, Lyn Stewart Simenson and Barbara Mosberg Morrison

Mac and I went to visit Alexandria, VA and Mt. Vernon in March. For those of you who have not visited George Washington’s home for 20 or more years you should take a trip.

It is open 365 days a year and is quite an experience. Jane Day Stuart sends word that “All is well with me. My three kids live in NYC; one a lawyer, one in private equity and one a therapist. I still live in Florida half the year and in Maine the other half. Still play lots of tennis. I now finally have a grand baby.

It’s about time. Love to all.” Rachel Magruder Allen lets us know that her mom joined the Allens on a trip to Cuba last fall. Stuart Kelly Trinkle writes: Things are going well in Roanoke, I am really enjoying retirement and staying busy with volunteer work at the Ronald McDonald House. I was able to attend their international conference in Chicago last summer representing the Board. It was so moving to meet folks from all over the world - there are over 330 Houses globally helping tens of thousands of families with seriously ill children. I hope to do more travel once I have my knee replacement in September - yet another challenge of geezerhood. I very much appreciated the kind notes, calls and emails after Mom’s passing on Thanksgiving. It was heartwarming to see Susan Andrews, Susan Athey and Janet at her memorial service and it was great catching up with Georgia Stevens’ Mom, Maggie who looks and sounds the same. I hope everyone marks their calendars for the first weekend in October, 2018 for our 50th. As for me, Susan MacDCG Andrews,

my news is mixed. In July my husband of nine years died of a massive heart attack. Three weeks later my daughter Jesse Galitzin, 1999 moved with her fiancé to Carlsbad, CA for his career. They live less than two hours from Lev, Ginger and baby Leo (LLG VII!) In October, I confounded the advice givers and moved to a retirement community where as the youngest one here (by years), I am having a ball shaking up the “norm” among these dear folks! Please keep in touch even if it isn’t for publication.

Facebook has reconnected many of us. Mostly, plan on the 50th. We’d love being all together.

Members of the Class of 1969 are moving into a new phase in our lives – retirement! Valerie Stafford Hardy Sprenkle and Kathy Waters Marshall Weatherly both took the big step and report that life is good, really good. I didn’t realize that Valerie had been a full-time nurse for 40 years in Baltimore and York, PA. She retired as Vice President of Acute Care for the WellSpan Health Network, a four-hospital integrated healthcare delivery system. She’d also served as vice president of Patient Care Services and the chief nursing officer at York Hospital, WellSpan’s flagship. Since retiring, she and her husband have been traveling to Paris, Normandy, Santorini, Mykonos, Athens, DC (to see Andrea Bocelli in concert – bucket list, she says!) and a Caribbean cruise.

She and Kathy Waters did Boone, NC and Berkeley Springs, WV last year. Like many of our classmates, Valerie is all about her children and grandchildren, spending a lot of time with son Rob’s two-year old Luke. Kathy Waters just tells me she’s enjoying her time with her kids and grandkids. She says she’s expecting her ninth grandchild in July! I haven’t done a count, but Cathy Prout Lears Bennett is also in the lead with six grandchildren! Son Jimmer has a boy, Jenn, 1997 three girls and Erin, 2001 one of each. Fortunately for Erin, who works in Development at RPCS, her little one can stay at Little Bear Child Care Center at the school. “Kudos and thanks to RPCS!” Erin’s husband John is in Development with Gilman.

Susie Bradley Boutilier’s, 1969 grandchildren - Tyler, Tommy, and Emmy are the children of her daughter Peggy Boutilier Williams, 1994

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Lunch with members of the Class of 1969: Kathy Waters Marshall Weatherly, Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle, JL Sprol Hurley, Jane Beazley DeCell, Ellen Reichenbach Gruber and Kathy’s sister Tricia Waters, 1973.

Jenn’s devoting her time to keeping the home fires burning and helping her husband Jay who started his own law practice last year. Jimmer heads up Tompkins Builders in DC, and he and wife Jess live in Odenton, MD. She says Woods’ daughter Kate is working at the Falls Road Animal Hospital and his son Eddie lives in Denver. Cathy’s still traveling a lot as director of the Michael Phelps Swimming program, which is in the process of expanding its swim school. Down time is often spent in Rehoboth in August. Baroness Christine Pierpont von Klencke (I just love writing that!) says her biggest news is “Celeste is expecting her first child any day now (I had hoped to be able to say it had arrived, but the deadline for the news might get there first). Anna is expecting her second child in early June. Other than being an expectant grandmother I am still running our café, tours, shop and events including weddings, parties and our Advent Fair. I was reelected to the synod of the Lutheran Church of Hannover for another six-year term and to the church Senate, which selects candidates for all the high church positions and is an advisory board that works closely with the bishop. Our latest vacation adventure was a trip to Oman and Dubai. The Arabian world is quite a different place! Love to all!” I live vicariously by all our world travelers. Jane Louise Sprol Hurley and Genie Harper-Jones are talking about getting together to share pictures. Genie says she hiked the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu in April with her daughters Jessica and Josie.

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award for their parenting.” Genie also saw Mary Hayes Volmer in February in Sanibel with Genie’s sister, Nini Harper, 1967 and met Jane Stafford, 1967 and Wendy Lyon Mitchell, 1967 and Eric Anderson (Gilman, 1968) and his girls. JL wrote me from a Scandinavian internet cafe. Sheesh. “Just for fun travel,” she says. Her daughter Jill married James in Bryant Park in NYC last September. JL says they both found jobs in DC and live there now. JL says she hopes everyone is having similar happy moments and that she smiles remembering us all as youngsters and hopes to see everyone at the reunion this fall! I follow Kathy Conklin’s travels through Facebook. It’s always a treat to see her wonderful photographs. She says she’s still a “very active” board member for NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness) of Northern Virginia. She says her current project

Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle, 1969 and her grandson Luke.

is to put on another show at the historic State Theatre in Falls Church, starring “the amazing Sarah Elizabeth Greer in her one woman show.” Kathy says she’s trying to schedule it for October. A group of the Class of 1969 got together recently to have lunch and then visit Hillwood Gardens: Kathy W., Valerie, JL, Jane Beasley DeCell, Ellen Reichenbach Gruber and Kathy’s sister Trish Waters, 1973. I can’t get over how tall Trish is! I remember when she was just a little thing! I am in my 20th year with CNN, having a great time doing standards for many of the outside programs we’ve been bringing in. I get to work on such exciting titles as Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, Morgan Spurlock’s Inside Man, the recent Chicagoland series and a new film series from Tom Hanks called The Sixties. Watch out for that last one especially – it’s our time! My husband George and I continue to be active barbershoppers, he’s a contest administrator now, I occasionally sing with my VA chorus and quartet and plan on returning soon to my Atlanta chorus. We spend our other leisure time on Lake Allatoona in our boat and playing with our two rescue dogs Buddy and Bertie. It’s not too early to plan on joining us this fall for our (gasp!) 45th Reunion! I have promised myself I will drop some weight so you all will recognize me! I’m excited because we’ll be sharing some events with my sister Catherine Spicer Tolliver’s, 1974 class.

Class of 1970 Kathy Lenhard Beck kathylbeck@gmail.com Mary Thomsen Davisson writes: I’m starting my tenth year directing the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center. September is always intensely busy as we prepare for our annual October Harbor Cruise - October 9 this year - which is both a fundraiser and a fun way to show our guests where my incredible volunteers and I work around the port. So I can’t be part of the Delaware festivities. My husband E.O. has added producing the Seafarers’ Center newsletter to his retirement activities. Our son Edwin (Gilman, 2002, Princeton, 2006), a software engineer for Google in San Francisco, is engaged to a Princeton classmate, Sarah Dobkin. We are thrilled and look forward to their wedding on June 7, 2014. Son John, (Gilman 2004, Columbia 2008), after actually earning a living as an online journalist for a few years, is finishing up his first year of law school at Georgetown. I’ve missed choral singing during

my ordained life, but recently we started spending a week every August at the Kanuga Conference Center near Asheville, NC. The annual arts and spirituality conference includes a choir option, which has become a wonderful highlight of our summers. Cinny Nuttle Beggs shares: I finished classes for my MBA. Graduation is actually May 3, the first time I will have walked across a stage for academics since 1970! That was an accomplishment considering how long we’ve been out of school. I do need to say that RPCS can’t be beat when it comes to writing papers grammatically correct because the younger generation doesn’t have a clue! And I did finish with a 3.9167. What the heck is .0167? Just give me the 4.0 for age and effort! In fact, I didn’t miss one class in 18 months! Don’t I get a plaque for perfect attendance? I’m trying some of my newfound knowledge in marketing to sell my Curves so I might get a real job. It’s not easy, but I will succeed. Other than that, I’m pretty fit, my hair is salt and pepper, I live with three dogs and two cats that think that they’re dogs and, Skip, who is still the love of my life and the best. I got really lucky! My parents are still living in Blakehurst. They’re doing well although my dad is getting tired, I think. He’s going to be 92 on April 16, so Happy Birthday to him! And Lizzie is kickin’ it at her Olive Oil store in Baltimore across from Princeton Sports and the Kellogg Collection if you’re ever over that way. The store name is E.N. Olivier and is absolutely beautiful. Bobbi is in Naples, FL six months of the year and Connecticut the other six. It’s tough being her. Nancy Strahan sends her news: Bill and I spent a week in Provence celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary last May and getting lots of opportunity to brush up on my French.

Provence was wonderful; can’t wait to return. Bill had major surgery this past summer just before our reunion weekend and I’m happy to say is completely recovered. He and I are “dividing and conquering” this spring. The girls are now juniors in high school and we had to take two separate college trips. Boy is it different than when we were looking. Becky and I hit a lot of schools in Boston and NYC. She wants to be a film maker. Maggie went south to more traditional college campuses with Bill. She wants to be an elementary teacher of dyslexics like herself. I’m a little overwhelmed with a double dose of SAT’s, ACT’s., AP’s, SAT subject tests, common app, etc. Last year the complete electronic health record (EHR) finally came to our office and has been a complete game changer for me and my patients. No longer am I able to have a real conversation with my patients. Instead, there is a computer screen interposed between us and I spend all me time hectically trying to

click and fill in all the little boxes so that I can fulfill “meaningful use” and other nonsense. I hate it and so do my patients, but apparently this is how everyone is practicing medicine these days. However, I was so unhappy, I decided to cut my hours and start the slow journey to retirement. I am now only working three days a week so have long weekends to take the girls to colleges (and come to reunion weekends!). The income is not as good, but I’m happier. Peggy Bradley Bugg: I decided I didn’t want to be left out so here goes. I am still working as my husband’s paralegal in a small, two-man law firm in Irvington, VA, on Carter’s Creek just off the Chesapeake Bay. Working together has been a lot of fun because I end up going along on occasional business trips to New Orleans…so what’s not to like? Life is very slow down here and we rarely have anyone at the office on Friday afternoon. Our son, Tripp, is a partner in the firm so I get to see his son and daughter frequently when they stop by the office after preschool and Kindergarten, which is only about a block away. My daughter, PJ, is a lawyer in Richmond and brings her twin daughters, Bradley and Avery, who were two months premature (that’s another long story but they are fine, now age 20 months), down in the summer as much as possible so they can sail or fish and we can babysit. So far it has been a lot of fun, but the girls are now both walking and going in different directions so babysitting is becoming more of a challenge.

My husband Dave and I still love skiing in Vermont several times every winter and boating on the Chesapeake so clearly retirement is not even on the horizon. We hope to make it to the reunion this year; last year it just did not work out. Until then keep up the emails. I have enjoyed hearing from everyone.

Dorian McGlannan writes: I took early retirement about a year ago and we have moved back to the Seattle area. While many of you are enjoying grandchildren, our two girls, adopted from China, are still in high school (Lee-Joan, 16 and Kaylee, 14). Our son Justin is graduating from Grand Valley State in Michigan this year. He is taking a year off and will be applying to grad school in organizational psychology. In 2006, we added another daughter to our family - a young woman who lived in a very abusive situation. Morgan was 17 at the time, and is now 25 and is getting married to a great guy in the coming year. She also is doing well, quite the miracle given her home situation. We have loved having her as a part of our family. I am fully recovered from my journey with stage three breast cancer (2010) for which I am very grateful. Joseph is doing amazingly well as a long term kidney transplant (two transplants, 1979 and 1982)

survivor and is transforming our new yard. We love being retired together! The girls and I have all taken up horseback riding. We love it though the girls, of course, are advancing much more quickly than I am. I am training to be a church consultant and am doing a few things such as leading retreats. We are very happy to be back in Washington state mostly because of an abundance of friends and my husband’s extensive family, but also because of the incredible beauty of the area. My longing for nordic skiing, hiking, kayaking, cycling and backpacking are all being greatly satisfied. While I am not in regular contact with any RPSC classmates, I am still very close friends with Diana Digges, whom some may remember attended that rival school Bryn Mawr. I will not be able to make the Rehoboth reunion because I am going to my niece’s wedding in Michigan in November and just can’t make an additional trip back east. We hope to take all of the kids to China during the summer of 2015 so we need to save up for that! I hope to come to the 45th Reunion in 2015. Nancy Beury says: We’ve been up here in Maine since 1986, but on the “west coast.”

Nice view, no boats. Just recently I reconnected with Ceci Haynsworth. I do veterinary stuff: well-pet care, spay and neuter surgery for a non-profit, that sort of thing. It’s low remuneration, but high emotional value. Older son Benjamin (born during my third year of veterinary school) is on the board of trustees at Bishopswood, the Episcopal church camp in Maine. He’s been there every summer since he was not-quite-seven. He works at the University Club in Boston. Younger son, Gabriel, is working in the bakery at Whole Foods. He has a degree from J&W in culinary nutrition. Gabriel is engaged to Leanne Galligan, with the ceremony planned for the summer of 2015. Dan is still, more or less, making his living as a musician as an interim organist at St. Bartholomew’s in Yarmouth, ME and accompanying Choral Art Society in Portland and he also works at the Mount

Members of the Class of 1970 gather for their reunion last fall.

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Washington Hotel some of the time. Ann Wiltzius-Schmidt tells us: I split my time between Santa Barbara, CA and Long Beach Island, NJ. We moved to SB almost five years ago for my husband Pierre to take the dean of sciences job at UCSB. In the summer, I go to LBI where we have had a house for over 20 years - and have often connected with Kathy Lenhard Beck and her mom in Beach Haven when they visit relatives there! Our daughter Amy, 24, manages an animal shelter PAWS in Philly and lives in Society Hill, walking or riding her bike to work. Son Tom, 26, works at Google and just bought a condo in the hip, but funky Mission District in San Francisco. As for me, I enjoy the beach life on both coasts and serve as a docent, giving tours of Casa del Herrero, a historic house in Montecito, as well as other volunteer work. My mom (and Kathy’s mom) are living at Blakehurst in Towson, so I visit Baltimore few times a year to see her, my sister and family. I would love to connect with anyone coming to either the west coast or LBI! Nicole Mosberg Mones: Last September’s reunion brought us together again in such a warm and lovely way, thanks again to the organizers. The least I can do is try to improve on my historically pathetic job of keeping up with the news. The big news in our lives is the empty nest, which turns yet another corner as Luke graduates from Columbia this May, 2014. Ben (Vanderbilt 2010) is working in New York and traveling internationally for his company, which provides website metrics to news organizations. He and Luke have been able to see each other regularly during Luke’s college years - which has been great for them just as it has been a boon for us to have them both in one place. Meanwhile, Paul and I find ourselves spending much less time in Portland, OR, and more time in Los Angeles, where we have a little place on the west side (not too far from Ann in SB). Paul travels a lot for his work, and with a new book out I am jumping around more than usual, making 2014 somewhat hectic. Rehoboth in September sounds perfect. Lanning Taliaferro: My big news since mini-reunion is that our son Austin got married. He and his girlfriend Annie decided to have a spur-of-the-moment ceremony in our back yard. With only three days to prepare we didn’t have time to become anxious about it. The decorations consisted mostly of buckets of goldenrod cut from the many stands of weeds in the yard, and little white Christmas lights strung around the stone wall! We bought champagne for the happy couple and the family members who made it, and then they took us out to dinner. It was nice. Denise Dempster Watkins: Fred and I are still living in Clearwater Beach and love it!

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Nancy Strahan, 1970 and daughter Becky Blackstone, 2015 at the Cum Laude Induction and Ceremony

a regular basis. Sunset cruises with a bottle of wine are one of our favorite past times! We also had fun celebrating our anniversary last fall in St. Croix. I continue to work as a house manager at Ruth Eckerd Hall and Capitol Theatre. I love meeting all the performers. I worked with Jay Leno recently and he was one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met! I finished writing my children’s book, The Instagooter, which is for sale on Amazon. I’m in a woman’s club, a book club and am still very involved with Tri Delta Alumnae. Our daughter, Lauren, was married in April 2013. After planning her wedding for a year, I was ready to become a wedding planner! She and her husband live in San Francisco. Meredith lives in Jackson Hole, is an avid skier and snow boarder and works for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Tucker is currently deployed in Afghanistan, but he loves his job over there. Hopefully, he’ll be back in The States soon! Eleanor Deland Lederer writes: My job is going great. I am still division chief of nephrology at the University of Louisville (such a disaster, losing to UK). I am still doing research, teaching and seeing patients, and I love every bit of it. My husband has retired. Lucky him. My oldest child, Maitland, is in Austin, TX. She is a software engineer for a video games company and is engaged. My second child, Paul, is a fellow in critical care/pulmonary medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is engaged to a nephrology fellow in September.

My third child, Stephanie, is in Sarasota, FL, working at one of the Ringling Schools. My

fourth child, Philip, is also in Sarasota, writing for a magazine. Stephanie is interested in a career in the fine arts and spent some time speaking with Dorsey Waxter about what she needed to strengthen her fine arts credentials. I am incredibly grateful to Dorsey for spending the time to give her advice. I think it is absolutely fantastic that one of my classmates is such an icon in the field! And I am not the least bit surprised that she would be so generous with her time and expertise. One thing I have learned about my RPCS classmates. They are loyal. They are supportive. They are the best. Gail Stewart Beach: This August I stepped down as department chair at Catholic University’s Drama Department and have begun to reignite my free-lance designing. Most recently I designed costumes for The Carolina Layaway Grail at the Atlas Theatre for the Welders Collaborative. I am spending more time back in the classroom, including teaching a course on Asian Theatre, which I thoroughly enjoy!

Not much else has changed. Robin Ward Puleo writes: Still writing, still running, most important still married to Peter R. Puleo who I met junior year of college, but unfortunately didn’t have the wisdom to marry until more than ten years later. Both very happy at 61. We have dodged some bullets and thank our lucky stars for all the good that’s come our way. We cherish our friends and family. We laugh a lot.

Having a yellow lab that eats light bulbs, soap and tubes of Neosporin and survives will do that to you. And we take great pride in our

three boys - Chris (Columbia 2011, Columbia P&S 2016), John (Bucknell 2013, Lehigh MSE 2014), Peter (Bucknell 2016). Looking forward to our mini reunion in September. Ellen Keats Stifler: I am still working in development for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center which I find very gratifying. My daughter, Allison Sibal Baker, 1993 and stepson live in the Baltimore area with their families so I frequently get to enjoy seeing the five grandchildren who are here and greatly miss the two little ones who live in New Orleans with my son and his wife. Marguerite Ingalls Jones shares: My news is about the same - still planning alumni travel at JHU and working with the volunteer board. Greg’s real estate business is humming along and he can’t wait to resume golf since we live on a golf course.

Daughter Carolyn is loving Burlington, VT, and looking forward to Champlain College this fall. We’re going to spend a week in Kauai with friends later this month and will find warm weather at last. I am looking forward to seeing you all at the beach reunion this fall. Libby Cooper Curran: All is well here in Moorestown, NJ. I stay busy taking care of my pets, volunteering a lot at our church and helping to take care of Val’s mother. Val and I are happy and healthy fortunately and our big news is that we are now grandparents! Our oldest, Beth, had a baby girl last August. Her name is Grace Valentine Field and we are enjoying her thoroughly. They live five minutes away which means we are frequent visitors and we are in heaven. Our son, Kenny, lives in Mexico City and has his own restaurant, creating his own recipes. He loves it there, but may at some point be returning to the states to try opening a restaurant in the northeast. Our youngest, Margie, currently lives in Denver and loves the lifestyle there. Happy kids = happy parents. We plan on seeing everyone in Rehoboth next September. Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks writes: This year is the first I have had in over 20 that I have not had a child playing a sport. Molly Cornbrooks, 2009 graduated last May and is now working in DC, so it is nice to have more time to do other things. Last summer I crewed all summer on the Patapsco around Ft. McHenry and Tide Point and into the Inner Harbor. I am now starting to play some more golf in my spare time. The crewing was fun, but too intense! I am still working two part-time jobs: insurance agency and being a rep for W by Worth clothing. I have not gotten down to Rehoboth much, but I am getting the family together for Easter weekend there. I hope to host something in September, if nothing more than a nice afternoon on the beach. See you all then!

Martha Dudley Keller: My newest news is I am a proud member of the Kansas City Barbeque

Society and a nationally certified barbeque judge. In April I will have my first “gig” judging. Wish me luck! Other great news is that I spent a week with Gin Barrett Shanley at her lovely condo in Naples. It was paradise this winter and a blast to be with my pal from days and years past! Hope to see y’all in September at and on the beach. Details will be forthcoming. Dorsey Waxter: I am still a working stiff in New York, but now with my name on the door of the gallery. In February 2013, the gallery moved to a new location at 23 E. 73rd Street with a new name: Van Doren Waxter. I have another related job as president of The Art Dealers Association of America. So I am fully occupied. Other than business travel, I try to spend time with my mother in Easton, MD since Dad died in December 2013. I am anxious to get back to playing tennis since my foot surgery last September (which was why I couldn’t be at the beach). Hopefully I will be at this year’s get together in Delaware. Debbie Cahn Carroll shares: How to do forty + years in a summary? I married my senior year at Goucher to my high school sweetheart, Danny.

We moved north of Chicago where his company transferred him shortly after I graduated. I got my master’s from Northwestern in learning disabilities and taught high school for the first two years. I worked for nine years as a teacher for learning disabilities, behavioral and emotionally

involved students grade three through five.

During that same time I co-owned and ran a health food store with my husband. My teaching job was outstanding, but my marriage was falling apart. I moved back to Carroll County, MD. I met my second husband George Carroll and his two wonderful daughters and we live in Frederick County. I have changed jobs to be closer to home and to expand my use of my skills. In the meantime our youngest daughter, Lois, got married and is substitute teaching until their adoption goes through.

Our oldest daughter, Virginia is doing a post doc at University of Maryland under the Gates Foundation grant for research in HIV. Now after thirty-six years, I will be retiring. George and I have been very involved in helping our parents as they go through their aging process.

His parents live at Homewood in Frederick and my mother is at Roland Park Place in Baltimore. My father recently died very suddenly at 92 years old. As always, other people’s lives seem so much more exciting and everyone is living in beautiful places around the country! Gin: I really don’t have too much to report. I have just spent this winter in the sunny warmth of Naples, FL where I escaped from the incredibly long, cold and snowy Syracuse winter. I feel terrible about leaving my husband to run his fuel oil company up north, but after I “survived” 30 difficult winters, he has been very supportive of my

Biking in Bethany with Lee Kelly, 1971, Meg Hudson Rice, 1971, Leslie Phelps Perlik, 1971 and Beth Jones Elkins, 1971

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living under sunshine and blue skies for a few months - thank you Gary! I spent most of my time entertaining family and friends who wanted to get out of the cold, as well as planning a renovation of our condo. Doing that really helps me keep my creative juices flowing.

My children are slowly being launched into adulthood. Patrick graduated from Colgate University and has been living in Boston and working for an employment agency while he awaits entry into the Marine Corps or Army. Margaret just graduated from Franklin and Marshall College and hopes to focus on a career in clinical psychology. Our beach reunion was so delightful last September and I am really looking forward to attending again. We are so blessed to be able to reconnect with so many others from our class and my hope is that we will have even more attend this fall. Barby Patterson Nixon writes that she and Bill have two grandchildren, a girl and boy. They will not be able to attend the reunion in September and will miss us.

Rebecca Levering McNelis has six grandchildren, all in Baltimore. As for me, Kathy Lenhard Beck, I’m so glad that we’ve had so many classmates responding to my requests for news. The Class of 1970 is still a great and formidable group of ladies! Thank you all. I am so looking forward to September when we get a chance to reunite for our second annual mini reunion in Delaware. This time, preparations should be made for some skits, songs and fun!

Class of 1972 M.C. Jones Johnson mcjohnson23141@verizon.net I am hoping that I can fill in adequately for Meg Price Whitlock, who lost her mother to Alzheimer’s in April. It is incredible how many of our lives have been affected by this disease.

I know Meg had asked that we try to share how we are handling our sixtieth year (she’s too much of a lady to ask about our sexagenarian experiences), so here goes...Amy Barrett Frew writes: Scott, Molly, Will and I took a wonderful trip to Peru…our first intercontinental trip as a family. It was rich in history and involved great views and a good amount of hiking and climbing. Very enriching. As both kids live out of state (Molly is in Boston and Will in NYC), it was terrific to have the time together! Diane Hutchins, in apologizing for her late response, writes: I needed recovery time from the three months of the legislative session to have my brain come

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Elizabeth Beirne Lippitt, 1972 and her family at daughter Julia’s wedding

back. Life returns just in time for my 60th birthday. I am truly looking forward to being that age. Life is good. I am still at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and loving it. We are building a new, state-of-the-art penguin exhibit that will open in the fall and with births and new arrivals, there is a lot happening. I invite our classmates to visit. You’d be surprised how much fun the place is, with or without children. While I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, I did make a concession to my middle-aged memory of things I wanted to do in this year of the 60th anniversary of my birth. I am slowly getting through it, and hope that by the end of 2014, I will have crossed off everything. It is not a bucket list. I have been checking things off of it for years. It is, for me, a celebration of being lucky enough to get to this age. Kristen Drechsler Henderson, who did not make any mention of the 50th anniversary of the British Invasion, did share: The nest is empty! To mark the occasion, sweet Bob actually insisted that, on his 60th birthday, we retire the soccer mom mini-van and buy me a VW beetle. What a guy! It is the car Barbara Schultheis Snyder (where are you, Barbara?) “toodled,” “zipped” and “bopped” me around in junior and senior year. I still dream of those days. In deference to my dermatologist, we did not go old-aged crazy with a convertible, but the sunroof is rather huge. All three girls are healthy and happy; Katie a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Rebecca a designer, letterpress operator, freelance social media marketer and sometimes stand-up comic here

in Charlotte and Anna happily at Chapel Hill.

(And yes, we Duke grads are thrilled.) I continue to use my RPCS mini-course in calligraphy to make a living full time in mostly wedding work, and love it. My greeting card line is in a bunch of stores all over the place, and I have started to have calligraphy workshops in the house. So life is good for now, and I am grateful every day. Best to all!

Kristen neglected to mention an article on her business in Charlotte Magazine in April. Anne Davis Sullivan writes: All is well in Chicago.

The snow is almost gone and there are signs that spring might actually be here soon! Our son Jimmy just finished up five months in Patagonia taking a NOLS course and asked me to come visit…and I did! I bought a ticket on Saturday, left on Sunday and had the most amazing trip ever! Chile is such fun and Chilean Patagonia is breathtakingly

Amy Barrett Frew, 1972 and Molly Frew, 2003 along with Scott and Will in Macchu Picchu

Nicky Teufel-Shone, 1972 and her sister Jenny Teufel, 1977 hiking in the Grand Canyon

beautiful. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be “trekking the W” in the Torres Del Paine, but did it. Thirty-five miles in four days and I survived. It was quite the way to ring in 60! As always, we are open for visitors if anyone is in the midwest! Best to you and hi to all! Linda Morton reminded me that not everyone has had a cold, wet winter as she replied: Yes, we warmed up and dried up a little too much this year in San Diego. With our son in school back east, we’re enjoying the empty nest and a bit more traveling. Retirement is still a few years off, with overpriced college tuition and a new administrative job at the law school for me. Classmates welcome out this way! Barbara Ewing forwarded an email heralding Margaret Shea Klinck’s (Meg) latest accomplishment: Unlike Lisa Reichenbach, I may not have yet formulated a fun way to celebrate my upcoming 60th, but I can report (and boast) that at almost age 60, I survived the Family Slalom Race at Mad River Glen, without managing to impale myself on a gate or even to crash and burn! In fact, I was able to place Second in the grandmother (gulp)/ granddaughter race and I managed to be the fastest of all the grammies! Of course, I may have been the youngest of them, too! Our

competition this year included a mother who had been on the Olympic team and another family who founded the Green Mountain Valley Ski Academy...not bad considering we are recreational and not hard core! I do wish Meg had shared Lisa’s plans. Elizabeth Beirne Lippitt’s family has gotten a bit larger. She writes: My news is that our daughter Julia got married in September to Joshua Wood. Josh is an electrical engineer working on his post doc at Northwestern University. Julia is a lawyer and they are living in Chicago. Our son Alexander has moved to Baltimore to be with his fiancée who is a medical resident at Johns Hopkins and he is working at Agon Insurance as a trader. They are getting married in Baltimore in October. My family is thrilled that he is in town getting to know all his cousins. I will be coming back to town as much as possible! I am still at the same job after 18 years as executive director of the Infant Welfare Children’s Clinic. My husband and I seem to be on the go most of the time, no talk yet of slowing down. Manon Lauderdale Schladen shared a somewhat serendipitous supper. I have some new job duties: national study coordinator for a collaborative VA research project to see if service dogs can help veterans with PTSD. The study co-chair turns out to be Kathy Magruder, 1967, who’s teaching at the Medical University of South Carolina these days. Walking back from dinner one night, she turned to me suddenly and asked if I was “an imp or an elf.” “An imp,” I replied. “Me too!” she responded. A bit of explanation was needed for our dinner companion. Susan Wylie Lovett wrote: I have been living in Baltimore and Florida last couple of years. I have two sweet grandchildren in Florida and I can’t see them enough. I am traveling as much as possible and playing lots of golf. Can we really be 60? Kate Lilly Kirby reports: Joe and I just returned from a two week trip through Italy and to visit a student I taught 12 years ago for a guided tour of his beloved London. Perfect weather every day.

Our family is growing by leaps and bounds: Allie arrived on 11/1/13 with red hair and beautiful blue eyes just like her momma, Austin. Our grandson is due to arrive next week. And daughter Emily became engaged three weeks ago to her beau Chris. They will marry this fall. We are feeling incredibly blessed! Lynette Phillips, minutes prior to press time, shared: I am now with the City University of New York, as legal counsel for several of their campuses - the Graduate Center, School of Journalism, School for Professional Studies, Honors College and a newly created Manhattan community college, Guttman. It is exciting to be back in the city, home of the $2 large coffee and bagel (yes, that deal does

Anne Davis Sullivan, 1972 and son Jimmy in Patagonia

exist). It took 20 years but I finally have a fancy office address: the renovated B. Altman building right on Fifth Avenue. And speaking of “finally,” after DOMA was struck down by the Supremes this summer, Kate and I tied the knot in a lovely garden ceremony attended by family. And promptly learned what the “marriage penalty tax” is all about. Deborah Brawer Silva, of Riverside, CA, lost her mother in March; fortunately, her mom had moved out west after retiring to live near Debbie and her family. I know our thoughts and prayers go out to Debbie and Meg. As for me, M.C., I continue to work in exceptional education for the Henrico County schools: when my position was eliminated last summer, I made the switch from working with preschoolers with autism to working with high school students transitioning to the workplace and independent living. I miss the little guys, but I don’t miss chasing after them or the bite marks. We still have a herd of geriatric horses and donkeys who take as much time as my regular job, but who are just as, if not more so, rewarding.

Since I still had some free time, we started fostering senior labs for Lab Rescue of the LRCP. Meg is still looking for someone to take over for her as Class Rep in 2015, so please let her know if you are willing and able.

Katie Lilly Kirby, 1972 and husband Joe on the Almafi Coast

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Class of 1973 40th Reunion Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice clarkefitz@aol.com Spring has finally sprung in Baltimore and I have procrastinated quite long enough. The Class of 1973 celebrated its 40th Reunion last October with a luncheon hosted by Joy Nolte Brumfield. We had a great turnout and it was wonderful to see everyone. I am forever struck by how the conversation does not change and yet is still so new: thirty years ago we were talking about jobs, weddings (ours) and babies (ours) and now we are talking about retirements, weddings (our children) and babies (grandchildren). It hardly seems possible that so much time has passed and it was heartening to see that no one has aged a bit!

And now to the news. Robin Chandlee reports the following: Chris and I celebrated our 25th anniversary this February with a weekend trip to Miami with our son Jake (21) to visit our daughter Catharine (18) who’s a freshman at the University of Miami. We had a great time on the beach, people (and exotic car) watching, and just being together. Catharine and the U were not a good fit so she will be transferring to University of Colorado Boulder next fall.

Meanwhile Jake is graduating this year from Carnegie Mellon with a BS and master’s in mechanical engineering and his job search is in full swing. Although we are among the older parents in our group, it is no less sweet.

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The Class of 1973 celebrates their 40th Reunion.

My little grant writing business continues to help pay the bills, and Chris and I are working hard and very happy these days. Debbie Black Moore reports that there hasn’t been much new since the reunion in the fall: Kevin and I celebrated our 37th anniversary in December.

I’m still working as a senior policy analyst at Maryland Family Network, and Kevin is still working at GE as an electrical engineer. We’ve made the final college tuition payment for our youngest daughter, so we just have to pay for two more weddings before we can retire!

When Courtney graduates in May, we will have three teachers in the family. Emily teaches high school biology and forensic science, and Lindsay and Courtney teach in the early grades.

Emily and Mike have been married a year, but she’s doing grad school before they have kids so we aren’t grandparents yet. In November I went to Oregon for a long weekend to visit my sisters, Sally Black Fivecoat, 1975 and Barbara Black Clarke, 1980 to celebrate Sally’s daughter Jerren’s wedding. I had a great visit with Sally and Barbara and their families, and I enjoyed some great Oregon craft beer.

From Karen Jarrell de Garcia: I celebrated the wedding of my daughter Luisa last summer in Madrid. I was very much looking forward to retirement with Avelino, but that just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, Harry and I are here in Madrid, enjoying wine, tapas and Luisa’s visits from the UK every three weeks. Life certainly can have its twists. Who would

have ever thought London would be second nature to me? I’m working a lot and adjusting to a whole new life. Love to all. From Kathy Wagner: I attended Karen Jarrell’s daughter’s wedding last summer in July outside of Madrid, Spain. Luisa was a gorgeous bride and the wedding was spectacular. Karen and I danced in a bullring until the wee hours of the morning! I am still living in Chestertown, MD and teaching at Washington College and am always willing to meet former classmates in Annapolis for lunch! From Donna Jennings Ward: Our 40th wedding anniversary is this summer and Mark and I will be taking an early trip to Ireland to celebrate. From Cheryl Dees Kensington: Somehow our two children have grown up and graduated from college. Wow, that was fast! Costa and I are still living in Darien, CT. We are thinking about downsizing and spending more time in a warmer climate next winter. Barbara Barrett Neale shares: The major news is that all three of our daughters have graduated from RPCS, making the current school year my first since 1999 without a daughter enrolled at Roland Park. Our oldest, Barrett, 2006, is managing editor of PressBox, a sports media company in Baltimore. She set her sights on this profession years ago and handles this demanding commitment with admirable skill. She and her husband Sam Scott live in Mount Washington, so we are fortunate to see them regularly. Our daughter Carroll, 2010 is graduating in May

Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice, 1973 with her husband Paul and daughter Maddie Fitzmaurice, 2013

from UVA with plans to work as a paralegal for the DC office of Hogan Lovells starting in June. Hooper, 2013 is finishing her first year at UVA, a place that she loves as much as Carroll does. She is excited about her upcoming summer internship, working for Ripken Baseball as it plans for and hosts another Cal Ripken World Series in August. As for Tom and me…we are adjusting to our empty nest, happy that our daughters are creating interesting new chapters in their own lives! We also enjoyed seeing a really nice group of 1973 classmates at the RPCS reunion event at Joy and Jim Brumfield’s in October. Thanks to all who could be a part of that special day! And from me, Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice: I continue

to work in development at The SEED School of Maryland and often see Lynn Morrison Venetoulis, SEED board member, on campus.

Mary Miller Faulkenberry and I see each other several times a year when she comes in from Bermuda. Sadly, her mother Jo became very ill this past year and died in March. Mary was in Baltimore in late April for a lovely and moving celebration of her mother’s life. It has been a really interesting year in the Fitzmaurice home and who knew that I would come to totally abhor the term “empty nester?” Please be so kind as to leave it out of any conversation unless you want to hear an insane rant from me on the subject. Maddie Fitzmaurice, 2013, has enjoyed her first year at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA although she did find the endless snow and freezing temperatures a bit daunting. Stay well everyone.

Class of 1974 Katharine Somerville Whitmore kemsome@gmail.com Thank you to all who have written! Diane Breger Kearney welcomed her mother into her home two years ago following the death of her father. Her mother has a few health issues, but has the same sweet disposition that I remember so well from my long-ago years of visiting Diane when she lived out Falls Road. Diane’s eldest, TL, is a lawyer, married and has a beautiful son whom Diane cares for twice

The Neale family following Hooper Neale’s 2013 Commencement (Tom Neale, Barrett Neale Scott, 2006, Hooper, Carroll Neale, 2010 and Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973)

a week. Son Jon is transitioning from restaurant management to physical therapy, and her daughter Joy is 25 and starting her own dating service app. Husband Tom recently was elected to his second term as DA of York County. Besides caring for her mother and her grandson, Diane has started a two-year term on the board of directors for her church.

Dorothy Rowan writes: Spring is glorious in the gardens. I’m so privileged to work outdoors, especially in NYC. I just passed a civil service exam for supervisor so may have a job switch sometime soon (the City wheels grind slowly). I’m enjoying my parks and my cats and my friends - and five beautiful nieces and nephews, three in Baltimore (Tony’s) and two in Maine (Sally’s). Life is rich! Say hello if you visit the Big Apple! Catherine Counselman Kelly is hard at work on her landscape photography. She attended an intense workshop in Utah in November, photographing in Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park. In June, she will join the same two instructors in Kauai for another workshop. In the meantime, she is shooting in Naples, FL and writing a weekly photography blog. She and husband Charlie live in Sewickley, PA, and their three daughters live in New York City. Caitlin is a consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Courtney teaches students with dyslexia at the Windward School in White Plains and Erin is a structural engineer with Thornton Tomasetti.

Charlie is managing partner of Saul Ewing’s Pittsburgh office. Cathy and Charlie get to New York City a few times a year, and see the girls as much as possible in Sewickley and in Naples. Susan Vaughan Kahn is running a program at Penn Law School for high school students interested in legal careers who’d be the first in their families to go to college, and also teaching ESL to recent immigrants to Philadelphia. She writes that she loves the new challenges and the short commute on her bike.

She and Geoff still love living in Center City.

Their son Alex is graduating from Fordham Law this spring and is thrilled to be starting work at the Manhattan DA’s office in the fall.

Daughter Phoebe is in her second year in medical school at Dartmouth.

Janney Hoffman McComas writes: I miss the good ole RPCS days, but not the homework! Life’s challenges today - with the changing times and caregiving to our families - make me so appreciative of the carefree, fun times and special friendships made in my thirteen years at Roland Park. Looking forward to sharing more happy moments with my classmates at reunion in the fall! Elizabeth Goldsmith Foster (Dodee) still lives in Baltimore and is working as a nurse manager at Carefirst. Husband Mort is retired, but keeps busy caring for their 100 year old house. Older son Adam just

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Alumnae Weekend 2013

Bettie Harper Porth, 1938 celebrates her 75th Reunion.

Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948 and Mari Herman, 1948 celebrate their 65th Reunion.

Parker Gundry Trostel, 1953 and Jeanie Horst Gore, 1953 celebrate their 60th Reunion.

The Class of 1953’s Reunion dinner at L’Hirondelle with (left to right) Jean Horst Gore, Dottie Hayden Gilman, Parker Gundry Trostel, Carol Jones Carlson, Lucy Fallon Otto, Betty Sand Gault, and Diana Russell Deacon

Classmates from 1958 – Mary Whitall Thomas Clevenger, Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, Mary Grimes Olk and Courtney Jones McKeldin celebrate their 55th Reunion.

Members from the Class of 1958 celebrate their 55th Reunion: Frankie Sherwood, Nancy Biggs Cole, Norvell Brinton, Judy Shafer Hoff, Jane Shriver Sewell, Dedi Smallwood Whitaker, Margot Bond Wittich, Donna Lee Schwaab Frisch, Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, Mary Whitall Thomas Clevenger and seated, Ann Posey Cherry.

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Alumnae Weekend 2013

Walking tour of Roland Park with the Class of 1963 and Kathy Hudson, 1967

Members from the Class of 1963 celebrate their 50th Reunion.

Frances Rutherford, 1963 and Starr Bowie, 1963 join 5th Graders for the 50th Reunion Tea.

Members of the Class of 1968 (back row l. to r.) Cathy Huether McClelland, Susan MacDCG Andrews, Eve Bremermann Collard, Connie Day Dunn, Andy Hodges Whitney, Stuart Kelly Trinkle, Lyn Stewart Simenson, Rachel Magruder Allen,(front row l. to r.) Janet Bauer Hartman and Susan Athey celebrate their 45th Reunion.

Alumnae artist Janet Bauer Hartman, 1968 and her family at the Alumnae Artist Reception.

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Alumnae Weekend 2013 Alumnae Weekend 2014 Schedule of Events Thursday, October 9 8:00AM - 4:00PM Cherry Tree Council Colloquium for all Alumnae A day in the life of RPCS

Friday, October 10 10:30AM Career Day Assembly and Luncheon for all Alumnae

Jean Waller Brune with members of the Class of 1988: Gina Kane, Jen Banister Figler, Melissa Theis McVeigh, Terri Doud Bovio, Darcy Christhilf Carroll, Kelly Linaweaver French, Nikki Ari Parker, Regina Boone and Janice Moore at their 25th Reunion.

12:30PM Reunion Luncheon for the Classes of 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954 & 1959 2:30PM - 3:30PM 50th Tea for the Classes of 1964 & 2022 4:00PM RPCS Varsity Field Hockey game vs. McDonogh 7:00PM 50th Reunion Dinner for Class of 1964 Spouse or guest invited

Saturday, October 11 9:00AM - 11:00AM 40th and 45th Reunion Breakfast for Classes of 1969 & 1974 9:30AM - 10:00AM School Tours 10:00AM - 11:00AM Little Bear Jamboree for all Alumnae and their children/grandchildren with magician and face painting The Class of 1993 celebrates their 20th Reunion at the Mt. Washington Tavern.

11:00AM - 12:00PM Listening Session for Alumnae to share their thoughts on RPCS. Part of the Strategic Plan for Fall 2014

12:30PM - 2:00PM 5th & 10th Reunion Lunch for Classes of 2004 & 2009 4:00PM - 5:00PM Semiquavers 60th Reunion & Workshop Spouse or guest invited 4:00PM - 5:00PM Alumna Artist Opening Reception with Jennifer Dewey Berk, 1974 Spouse or guest invited 5:00PM - 7:00PM Champagne Reception for all Alumnae Spouse or guest invited 7:30PM Reunion Classes - Dinners & Celebrations

Members of the Class of 2008 Lilly Siems, Caitlin Cantrell, Emily Newman, Andrea Lynch, Tanaira Cullens, Becca Taylor and Caroline Riina celebrate their 5th Reunion.

Sunday, October 12 11:30AM - 1:30PM 25th Reunion Brunch for the Class of 1989 4:00PM - 7:00PM Athletic Hall of Fame Reception & Induction Ceremony

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Alumnae Champagne Reception

Current and former Semiquavers join in singing the School song.

Classmates from 1998 Dulaney Wible Farkas, Carrie Windfelder Eachus, Lizzie Getman, Kristin Raneri Nicolini, Jessica Straus, Grace Applefeld Cleveland, Leigh Anne Haciski Rainford, Kate Jordan, Anna Hitchner and Lauren Waesche

Classmates from 1988: Jen Bannister Figler, Nikki Ari Parker, Kelly Linaweaver French, Terri Doud Bovio, Melissa Theis McVeigh, Allison Boynton Bateman and Sonia Chung Kim

Classmates from 1968: Susan MacDCG Andrews, 1968, Susan Athey, Janet Bauer Hartman, 1968, Andy Hodges Whitney, Lyn Stewart Simenson, Rachel Macgruder Allen, Cathy Huether McClelland, Connie Day Dunn and Eve Bremermann Collard with Judy Waters, 1960

Classmates from 1983 Heath Foster, Rebecca Morton, Linda Nathan, Julia Close Sweeney, Lawrie Balfour, Suzanne Kim Doud Galli, Gay Graham Wagner, Nancy Christianson Curry and Ann Daniels

Members of the RPCS Alumnae Board

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Career Day AssemblyRPeunion anel SpreadR Hed ead Hot Chili Cook-off

Alumnae in Law - Ellen Ginsberg Simon, 1966, Grace Applefeld Cleveland, 1998, Diane Hutchins, 1972, Courtney Amelung, 2007, Elizabeth Getman, 1998 and Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998 Members of the RPCS Alumnae Board

Cherry Tree Council Colloquium

Members of the Cherry Tree Council Colloquium (back row) Eve Bremerman Collard, 1968, Kate Singley Dannenberg, 1969, Ginna Naylor, 1963 (front row) Betsy Swingle Hobelmann, 1993, Helen Sanger Pierce, 1963, Peg Schmeiser Markowski, 1963 and Katherine McCleary, 1963

Little Bear Jamboree

Classmates from 1993 Margie Fink Gunn, Natasha Markowski, Melanie Diaz Dodson, Jessica Wilson, Katy Spencer, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann and Brady Beale Clark have fun at the Little Bear Jamboree.

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Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998 presents First Place to Kristin Ricketts Sparkman, 1998.

Dushane Reception

Sally Foley, 1956, Barbara Hall Francis, 1960, Jane Adams Watts, 1956, Susan Rose, 1960 and Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948

Regional Reunion Reunions Spread2013-2014 Head

Annapolis, MD

New York, NY

Places RPCS Visited in 2013-2014 Annapolis, MD • Boston, MA • Hobe Sound, FL New York, NY • Princeton, NJ • Orlando, FL Vero Beach, FL • Washington, DC

Boston, MA

RPCS will host Regional Reunions in the following cities in 2014-2015 Boston, MA Charlottesville, VA Denver and Boulder, CO New Orleans, LA New York, NY

Vero Beach, FL

Princeton, NJ Virginia Beach, VA If you reside or frequent a city that RPCS plans to visit during the 2014-2015 academic year, please let the Alumnae Office know that you would like to attend and we will share the details so you can Save the Date!

Washington, DC

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Alumnae Valentine’s Day Luncheon 2014

Sophie Sibel, 2014, Amy Davidov Sibel, 1986 and Lilly Sibel, 2018

Zoe Stern, 2018, Jayme Siegel Stern, 1985 and Sidney Stern, 2016

Joan Smith, HA with her grandchildren Violet Smith, 2024 and Scarlet Smith, 2027

Kathleen Finnerty Curtis, 1984, Caitlin Curtis, 2015 and Wesley Naylor Finnerty, 1989

Mallory Schofield Branson, 1994 and Buffy Rubenstein Minkin,1991 with Addie Branson, 2024, Maddie Cochran, 2023, Caroline Schmidt, 2021 and Abby Minkin, 2021

Molly Rice Goetz, 1991, Leslie Rice Masterman, 1984 and Carter Rice, 2021

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Katharine Somerville Whitmore, 1974 with brothers “Team SomerOld” Jim (RPCS, 1958), Dan and Bill (RPCS, 1960)

bought his first home and is engaged to be married next year! He works for Nutramax as a chemist and loves his job. Charlie lives in Portland, OR and works with adults that have developmental disabilities doing art therapy.

He is also very involved with urban farming, and he loves life on the West Coast. Marguerite Howard Morrison (Bunny) and her husband Bart finished renovating their coop apartment on the Upper West Side in Manhattan about three years ago, and are empty nesters with two kids in college. Will is graduating from Trinity College this coming May and Catherine is a sophomore at Princeton University. Over the Christmas holidays, the family took a fabulous trip to Australia. Marguerite adds that she is not working at the present time, but serves on several non-profit boards and investment committees. Last spring Helen Tangires and her husband Dennis visited the former Greek villages where her grandparents were from on the Karaburun Peninsula in Turkey, near Izmir. Growing up with stories about their homeland, it was especially moving for Helen to experience the architecture, food, culture, and landscape firsthand - much of it seemingly frozen in time. Her only regret was not being able to speak Turkish with the current residents. Paris Grady Warfield and her husband Guy had a wonderful trip to Puerto Rico and are planning a trip to Spain this summer. They are proud grandparents of Frederick Bruce Smith V (Reid), son of Becca Warfield Smith, 2004. He is a very happy little guy and the whole family is thrilled. On a sad note, Paris lost her mother this year. She is glad her mother was able to meet her grandson and

namesake before she passed. Guy continues to work in insurance while Paris still teaches Kindergarten at St. David’s Day School.

Catherine Spicer-Tolliver is overjoyed that her son Matt rotated home after a deployment in the Persian Gulf and will be based out of Galveston, TX just 300 miles away. Matt is engaged and is getting married August 9 in Bucks County, PA. Son Marc is a commercial litigation attorney in Dallas and he is engaged also, with plans for his wedding in late spring 2015 in north Texas. Cathy is making the transition from full-time law practice to teaching, but for now is both practicing and teaching! Husband Bob still travels, but spends more days at home than away. Catherine is hoping to see many of us at our reunion!

Jennifer Dewey Berk is continuing to paint.

She has had two shows in Baltimore this year and is enjoying a new studio in the Woodberry area of Baltimore. Jennifer will be the RPCS alumna artist this fall with an opening reception during Alumnae Weekend on Saturday, October 10. Her daughter Ellie is a sophomore at Emory, and Margot is a junior at Park School. Jennifer is soon to start the second round of college visits. Jennifer writes that life is good: Caring for aging parents, tutoring at a Baltimore City elementary school and painting as much as she can. Leah Simpson Kalish (Lili) and her husband Bruce live in Encino, CA where in addition to their other professions they lead Family Constellation workshops and individual sessions. Son Mack is a junior at Chapman University in the Film School majoring in screenwriting. Leah’s business, Move with Me,

continues to grow. She sells movement and mindfulness resources to early childhood educators, parents and caregivers as well as leads workshops and trainings. Leah’s mother still lives on Club Road and is going strong at 83. She, Leah and her sister Fay Simpson, 1975 took a wonderful trip to London last March. All four of Holly Zink Brent’s daughters have graduated from Roland Park!

The oldest, Courtney Brent, 2001 is working for a wealth management firm in Baltimore and getting married in May. Laura Brent, 2003 is living in DC working at Wedding Wire and Elizabeth Brent, 2006 packed her car and headed to LA last summer to become an aspiring actress. Youngest Alexandra Brent, 2012 is a sophomore at the University of Georgia and is doing Semester at Sea this fall.

Husband Leigh is still president of his insurance company. Together they have been renovating their 150 year old house. Like many of us, Holly has been busy taking care of her elderly mother. This fall she looks forward to having some time for volunteering and maybe some traveling. After a ten-year run as director of an 18th Century house museum, Mount Clare, Jane Woltereck has gone back to being an independent consultant working as a museum collections specialist, and is currently working at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

Jane also volunteers at the Baltimore County Historical Society and Hampton Mansion working in their collections and curatorial departments, and serves on the board of the Carroll Museums overseeing the Carroll Mansion and Phoenix Shot Tower. Jane’s oldest, Alex, is planning to add to his undergraduate degrees in fine arts and graphic design with postgraduate courses in landscaping and web design. Her younger son Nick is at UMBC, majoring in psychology and planning to attend nursing school after graduating. Husband Ernie continues to teach and work as a life coach. Nelda Dierdorff Horwitz writes that she is fine and glad to read the comments we have all sent around. As for me, Katharine Somerville Whitmore, all is well here in Durham, NC. My mother has lived with us since 2011 and helps keep our empty nest lively and fun. My husband retired from teaching high school chemistry last year, and I’m still working various jobs at Duke. Our girls are fine: Mattie is working for Booz Allen Hamilton and living in Charles Village, though soon moving to Ellicott City. Next fall Kriddie will attend grad school at Virginia Tech in natural resources and forestry. Water quality is her main interest. I am in touch with many more of you through Facebook, and I strongly recommend getting a Facebook account - even if solely for keeping in touch with classmates. I hope to see lots of you in October!

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Class of 1975 Sue Morrison Millard smillard@prudentialhomesale.com Hard to believe that it’s been 39 years since we all graduated, and that we will be planning our 40th Reunion soon. It was so nice to hear from some of you! Anne Zimmerman Morgan writes: Anne Orrick Barton, Tina Taliaferro Maclary and I gathered recently to say goodbye to Anne Gayhardt Roth, 1976 who passed away in March, 2014 from lung cancer (she was a non-smoker). It was great to be together with Anne toward the end. Anne’s daughter Eliza bravely survived a brutal assault last year (she was a lacrosse player at American University), and has mostly recovered from her injuries. Anne expresses thanks to all who supported her during her daughter’s recovery. Anne writes: There is nothing like those RPCS friendships! Eliza graduated on time, and is now working as a financial analyst for Raytheon. Eliza has adopted the motto “Fight hard. Live long.” Anne and husband Walter are still in Nashville, TN and are happy to report that all of their children are grown and employed (at this writing!) They welcome all visitors! Pamela Tanton is living in Mount Washington in Baltimore and loving it! She has been doing a lot of work, “writing, teaching qigong and marketing for Hope Well Cancer Support, a beautiful peaceful place just a couple miles north of the city line on Falls Road. Hope Well is a non-profit that offers a wide range of programming for those who have had a diagnosis of cancer.” She also

teaches qigong at other places around town, and does freelance writing for other clients.

She is looking forward to our 40th Reunion!

Michele Butler Youket’s daughter, Olivia, is about to complete her freshman year at the Fashion Institute, and has wanted to be a fashion designer since she was in middle school. For years, she has spent summers taking fashion drawing and sewing classes at F.I.T. Her dedication resulted in her being chosen as “one of a handful of outstanding candidates.” She has also been doing some modeling. Michele is happy that she is able to do something that she truly enjoys, and hopes that she will create a special fashion line for “very tiny women.” Deborah Banker is still teaching sculpture and ceramics at Glenelg Country School. She became a grandmother to Logan Patrick Doyle in March 2013, and she’s having fun with her new role! Ann McCullough is still living in Scottsdale, AZ where she works as a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic. As for me, Sue Morrison Millard, I haven’t gone far! I am in Lutherville and working as a realtor with Prudential Homesale (soon to become Berkshire Hathaway) where I am in partnership with Tina Goldsmith Thompson. Working with Tina really helps to make the job fun! I am more of less an empty nester, as my youngest will be a senior at Brown in the fall. Thankfully, my other three children are in the area. Daughters Jennifer and Hillary are both in Baltimore, and Hillary recently became engaged. Son Huff was on the west coast for a while, but is now living in Washington, DC. Tina is living in Hunt Valley with husband Tim. Her daughter Ashley Thompson Hovey, 2003 is working for

Kellie Dyer, 1976 and Margie MacFarlane Long, 1976 at Nan Lian Gardens, Hong Kong

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Paramount out in LA, and daughter Morgan Thompson, 2001 is in Baltimore. Tina is very involved with Woman’s Club of Roland Park, where she just finished a two year term as president. She is looking forward to a little more free time (or time to work). That’s about it for now. I would welcome hearing from any of you at any time, and would appreciate any news of other classmates that you may hear from. I hope that I will see many of you soon at our 40th Reunion!

Class of 1976 Jeanne Martinet Jeanne@Jeannemartinet.com Some news is by its nature difficult to impart.

The Class of 1976 deeply mourns friend and classmate Anne Gayhardt Roth, who passed away in March after a valiant battle with lung cancer. Our hearts go out to her family. Anne had a unique and wonderful spirit, and we will remember her forever. On a similar note, several classmates lost parents this past year, and our thoughts go out to each of them as well. To honor her late father’s love of “living life to the fullest,” Christine Donovan took a month-long trip to Australia in January to play in a Court Tennis tournament, the Boomerang at The Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, as well as to travel to Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney.

She found Australians to be “outstanding people: warm, friendly and hospitable.”

Christine is still working at Merrill Lynch.

Her niece, Kelly O’Hern, 2014 graduates from RPCS this June. Karen Bates Durovich, who recently went to see Christine play tennis in Tuxedo Park while visiting her son Colyer at Bard College Conservatory in New York, is still living in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband Bob. Her daughter, Graeme, is in her third year at Wellesley College. Keegan, her youngest, is a tenth grader and currently on an exchange at a Waldorf School in Berlin. Karen spends her time volunteering at the Waldorf School in Chapel Hill and for various programs affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill’s international center.

Cathy Curlett Parsells continues to work as executive director of the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation (Tall Ship of Delaware). Her son Jackson is now in the seventh grade and her daughter Clare is in the tenth grade. “I so remember both those years at RPCS,” wrote Cathy. “It seems like yesterday!” Last summer she went hiking and white-water rafting with her family in Utah. Speaking of hiking, Margie Macfarlane Long reports that she is still doing a lot of that on weekends, in her adopted home

of Hong Kong. (She is also restarting tennis after a year of dealing with a frozen shoulder.)

She is still working part time. Her big news: At long last, an RPCS classmate found her way to Hong Kong! Margie had a blast when Kellie Dyer and her sister Anne Dyer Fontaine, 1971 visited; they went to temples and markets, ate wonderful food and got foot massages.

Margie’s daughter Kate Long, 2005 is a lawyer in New York City, while her son Graham is in grad school at Oxford. And speaking of lawyers, Vicki Kummer retired from her law firm in June 2013 to devote herself full time to her arbitration and mediation practice, as well as to teaching. She’s busier than ever, having spent the past ten months teaching two law school courses and presiding over several commercial and international arbitrations.

She has also been mediating numerous cases referred to her from the federal court and business interruption cases arising out of Superstorm Sandy. “I’m absolutely loving being home more instead of living out of hotel rooms on the other side of the country and trying cases in over-air-conditioned courtrooms on little to no sleep,” Vicki wrote.

She and her wife Michele have spent the past year getting reacquainted with such domestic pleasures as making dinner, taking walks in Riverside Park and playing with their cats.

Jenny Black Kaurinki and her family have been traveling a lot. They took a trip in the spring of 2013 to the Shenandoah Mountains and in the summer to the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

This spring, they journeyed to the Alabama Gulf Coast and explored the bayous around Mobile and Gulf Shores. Urban farming is still Jenny’s main interest; she is running the neighborhood co-op farm, working with various school gardens and is very involved in the Baltimore City Master Gardener Program.

Her kids are now in sixth grade “and growing up way too fast!” And speaking of the sixth grade, Rebecca Colt-Ferguson’s niece, Peyton Woodward, 2020 is a sixth grader at RPCS. This was her first year and she loves it. Missy Beck Dudley is still working at Boys’ Latin teaching Kindergarten. She hopes to go back

Jean Waller Brune, 1960 with Jeanne Martinet, 1976 in New York City

Class of 1977 Leslie Mosberg Heubeck Heystack40@aol.com

Jenny Kaurinki, 1976 and her children Kai and Meena in Puerto Rico

to school for her master’s in the summer or fall of 2014. Both of her older boys have graduated from college and are out on their own; Jack Jr. is in New York City and Patrick is in Richmond. Her youngest, Bo, is in tenth grade at Boy’s Latin. “All is well except I am a Candy Crush addict!” confessed Missy.

Mary Kemp O’Connell and her husband Pat are expecting their second grandson at the end of April. “Grandparenting is a whole lot more fun than parenting!” And speaking of grandparents, Emily Bang Jackson and her husband, Chip are the proud grandparents of Della Mai Jackson born June 22, 2013. “Being grandparents is better than everyone says!”

Emily wrote. Sharon Bowie is still teaching English at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. “I hate to say it,” Sharon said, “but I’ve reached the second generation of my ‘kids.’ Boy, do I feel old when they ask me ‘Did you teach at Fallstaff Middle School? I think you taught my parent.’ I’ll be leaving before it gets to, ‘I think you taught my grandparent’!” Speaking of new generations of things, I, Jeanne Martinet, am hard at work on yet another revision of The Art of Mingling, due out in the fall of 2015 from St. Martin’s Press. Once a week I teach English as a second language through a program at Columbia University, and I have also taken up the ukulele with a passion; if anyone visits New York City in the summer, you may be able to find me performing with friends in Central Park.

This past year has been on one of changes and passages for our class. First, the entire class sends condolences to Peggy Pine Utermohle on the passing of her dear brother, Jonathan; Shelby Tilghman Strudwick on the passing of her father, Lewis Strudwick; and to Sharon Donkervoet Credit on the passing of her mother, Caroline Donkervoet. To each of you, we hold you close in our hearts and grieve with you. Lynn Clifford and Brad now call Lexington, KY “home” after being lifelong Baltimore residents. Brad is enjoying his new job and Lynn is loving the southern life, though Lexington has been unusually cold all winter.

Her home is always open to any classmate heading to Lexington. And your own scribe has a passage of her own. After a lifetime (except for our four-year Army European vacation), Leslie Mosberg Heubeck and David will be moving to Baltimore County. “It’s a bittersweet move for us because we have lived within a mile of our childhood homes for the greater part of our lives. Still we are excited for this next chapter.” Jenny Teufel was very busy this past year. Trips with her sister, Nicky Teufel-Shone, 1972 included Portugal and St. Thomas where Nicky was giving lectures and two hiking trips to the Grand Canyon.

Jenny and Bob spent a week in Baja. The heavy rains that hit Colorado in the fall had another victim – Jenny’s beloved Saab. What started as a simple dousing by a passing car quickly turned into her Saab as a submersible vehicle. Glad to report Jenny made it out safely though her Saab didn’t fare so well. In August, Betty Simpson Beirne and Dan visited Jenny and Bob for a few days while in Colorado for

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The Credit family following 2013 Commencement for Kim Credit with Sharon Donkervoet Credit, 1977, Katie Credit, 2009, Kim, Jodi Credit, 2016 and Joe Credit

a wedding. Jenny is still at Oracle and loves it. Betty counts her visit with Jenny as one of the highlights of the past year. She and Dan had a busy year with jobs and weddings.

She says 2014 will be less about travel and more about home repairs. We can all relate to that! Sharon only has Jodi Credit, 2016 (a sophomore) left at RPCS. Katie Credit, 2009 graduated from Syracuse last May and is back in Baltimore working as a structural engineer for WRA. She is living in Bolton Hill and taking full advantage of the night life offered in downtown Baltimore. Kim Credit, 2013 is a freshman at University of Cincinnati in the DAAP school (Design, Art, Architecture and Planning) where she is majoring in industrial design. It’s a five year co-op program, and so far has been a really great fit for her. Sharon and Joe enjoyed a sailing trip to Grenada this past fall. Graduation was the word of the year for Brook Gomer Yearley. Her daughter, Helen Yearley, 2010 graduated from Wake Forest in June. She is applying to physician assistant’s school while working in a pediatric practice in Winston-Salem to gain the 1,000 hours of clinical experience needed for admission. Chuck and Brook’s son, Dorsey, graduated from Gilman and is headed to the University of Denver. Biking from Prague to Vienna this summer is in the cards for Brook and Chuck to de-stress from the graduations.

Also celebrating a new college graduate is Ellen Meyer Abrams! Jennifer Abrams, 2010 graduated from Hobart & William Smith in May and celebrated her achievement with a post-graduation trip to Sanibel Island. Brooke McDonald and Michael went to Uzbekistan twice this past year to work with television journalists for the independent network NTT.

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Another fun project, and one that hits home for Brooke, they worked on it in conjunction with Fort McHenry for the celebrations surrounding the War of 1812, including shooting footage for the video shown during the national anthems at the NCAA Lax Championships. Shelby Strudwick still loves the Cali lifestyle. She joined her mother and sister, Andrea, for the 16th trip together to Rancho La Puerta in Mexico to celebrate Shelby’s “speed limit” birthday!

Shelby continues her work with Worth in Piedmont.

Betsy Somerville is thrilled to announce she is going to be a grandmother again! Betsy’s Facebook page is bursting at the seams with pictures of her adorable granddaughter so keep

the cutie pix coming Bets with the new addition to your family! Donna Roberts Lucci and her wonderful family are still in Santa Rosa, CA. Donna and Joe have two beautiful daughters – Natalie and Olivia. Maralee Sweren Clark is in her tenth year as a Baltimore County Public School Principal. In celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary, Maralee and Steve took a wonderful vacation to England including a stop at Highclere (where Downton Abbey is filmed). Andrew is an Assistant VP at T. Rowe Price and Rebecca Clark, 2007 is teaching at KIPP Harmony, a Baltimore City Charter School, and getting her master’s in education at JHU. Grace Doyle Bigelow (Muffie) had another busy year. She is still at JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health, expanding her role to include event planning for the Urban Health Institute. Grace’s work is really making a difference for the citizens of Baltimore on the front lines and at ground level. Daughter Callie is a junior at Towson HS and plays the violin, both in the school band and with a trio that gets gigs around town.

Carla Spawn-van Berkum’s oldest son, Zach, is a senior at Friends and ready to head off to college! Kyle is in ninth grade at Friends. Carla continues her work at RPCS, including leading the charge to establish the first charter school begun by an independent school in the city. The school is specifically for middle school girls and is named the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School. Well done, Carla! In other news, which will be old news by the time you read this, Wendy Roberts will be in Baltimore to see Zach walk across the stage at Friends in June. Alix Cochrane Rodman (Babby) is the person who keeps The Women’s Club of Roland Park running so efficiently. She can be

Nicky Teufel-Shone, 1972 and Jenny Teufel, 1977 kayaking in St. Thomas

Class of 1978 35th Reunion Susan Irving Taylor taylors@tdtsit.com

Shelby Tilghman Strudwick, 1977, Andrea Strudwick Bender, 1981 and their mom Shelby McN Strudwick at their annual spa retreat

found at the corner of Roland and Coldspring every day, working behind the scenes to make the 500+ member club be the vibrant place of learning that it is. I got to visit with Amanda Young Hickman earlier this year. She remains so busy with her work and keeping her two boys, as well as Walter, on task with all their activities. Her oldest son, Lucas, had the lead in his school’s production of Pirates of Penzance. This past year has been one of many changes, some filled with overwhelming sadness and some filled with joy. For lack of a better explanation, it has been a microcosm of the ride we call life. Ladies we are bound by our shared years on University Parkway, and this past year has shown many of us the unique bond we have with one another. I wish each of you a healthy and happy year. We are the catching fire class!

Miggy Yarlott Brown, 1977, Duncan and Rich Brown at USMA’s Plebe Parent Weekend Banquet

Happy Spring! Thanks to Jean Johnson Lubke and her husband Chip for hosting our 35th Reunion in October. We had a great turnout and a lovely evening to be outside. On the news front, we have a variety of updates.

Susan Moore Short writes: Things are lively in the Short household, as the kids grow like weeds. Mackie is eight and doing well in third grade; he is a soloist in children’s and men’s choirs, plays piano and cello, plays baseball and swims. Will is five and doing well in pre-K; he enjoys drumming on everything, playing along with his favorite bands and “singing” at the top of his lungs. (“Keep on rockin’ in the free world” is his current favorite.) Q still divides his time between running his company, volunteering in Mackie’s classroom, and playing music. I have changed roles at T. Rowe Price, going back to my old team in a new capacity, as manager of Front Office Integrated Data Services. I’ve been singing on occasion in women’s and gospel choirs, and chasing after the kids. Other than our typical family trips to Lake Anna and Long Beach Island, Q and I went to New Orleans for a few days last year, enjoying the exciting Ravens’ win in the Superdome, and spending a few extra days visiting historic sites and great restaurants. This fall, Jenny Davis Hope and I went to Miami for our annual Ravens trip, stopping first in Key West for some fun in the sun. We will try not to schedule future trips during reunion week! Mary Stuart McKenzie is still selling real estate with O’Conor and Mooney and is doing very well. Keep sending business in her direction if you know anyone buying or selling. Liz Pöckel was able to get to the states for the reunion and we all had a blast catching up with her. For those who missed her, she says, “As of May 1st, I’ve been in global marketing communication at Viking Life-Saving Equipment. The longest stint I’ve ever had at the same job. Just started a new education in digital journalism. Otherwise still chairman for the national organization for premature children and head of the school board for a special school. My twins have just turned 13 and are in seventh grade. The transition to junior high has apparently been easier for them than it was for me! Their favorite subject is German, so we’ve been spending a lot of time in Germany - which is easy since we live only 40 minutes from the German border. Loved being back for

the reunion. Jean and Chip were fantastic hosts, Irv was my tour guide. Great seeing those who were there and hearing about those who weren’t!” Margot Van Buskirk Hoerner couldn’t make it to reunion but says, “Big year for the Hoerners. We made our final college payment. Our twins Margaret and Elizabeth graduate from Bucknell and the Naval Academy on back-to-back weekends so it will be a busy May. Margaret is heading to Boston with Teach for America and Elizabeth will be on a Navy submarine somewhere – two totally different paths! Cameron is in NYC as an investment banker. I told him we just want him to make a lot of money and put us in a really nice nursing home! It is hard to believe that 24 years of parenting went so quickly! I am still with P&G and going strong after 32 years, but I am looking forward to lots of tennis, golf, traveling, community endeavors and seeing more of all of you!” We also missed Leslie Dierdorff Powell at reunion, but she’s been very active. “Our oldest son, Evan, is studying engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

Although he is just up the road in Golden, CO, we pretend he is much further away so he can really dig into the college experience. Caroline will graduate from high school next year and is looking at colleges in warmer climates. This summer she will travel to Costa Rica with our church youth group where she can try out her Spanish language skills and experience a different culture. Scott continues to enjoy music and theatre and has found his niche in the high school Drama club, landing the role of Lord Capulet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet last fall and the chorus for Fiddler on the Roof this spring. I continue to use my sign language skills as an educational interpreter. In January my job moved to Franklin Elementary where my kids started their school careers. I call it my “happy place” and love working with the deaf and hard of hearing kids there.

My husband, Russ, is “between jobs” at the moment, which has given him a chance to do more skiing this season (his own happy place!).” Leslie and family also had to deal with the Arapahoe High School shooting in December. Both Caroline and Scott were at the school but they are both fine. As for me, Susan Irving Taylor, I’ve been very busy running this year’s Symphony Decorators Show House at Silo Point – once a project manager, always a project manager! I’m hoping to join Terry soon in Maine since the house is now under construction. We’ll be spending the greater part of the summer and fall in a rental in Bath and then will be back in Baltimore for the winter. Hopefully next spring we’ll have a permanent roof over our heads up there!

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Class of 1979 Noel Rippel Bradley noelerbradley@verizon.net The biggest news for our class is that we’ll celebrate our 35th Reunion this fall on Saturday, October 11 at the home of Margie Waters Forner! Mark your calendar, dig up your yearbook, old photos, uniform (don’t forget your bloomers!) and make plans to join us and the Bald Dog (remember him?) for what promises to be a super groovy gathering and look back to the 70s. In the meantime, let’s catch up on what’s been happening. I’m happy to share this report from our girl about town, Mimi Kapiloff who is in New York City now “doing trusts and estates work as well as appraisals of fine art and antiques. Loving the city and soaking up the culture.” Hope to catch up with you in October, Mimi! The ever adventurous Brigid Pecora Bertazon earned her diving certification and went spear fishing in the Dry Tortugas. Our reunion hostess, Margie Waters Forner, still loves her Kindergartners at Cathedral School, but misses her mom who died in September. From Laurie Alkire Selby: This year was a year of extremes. In October, our daughter Annie (11) was diagnosed with a low grade astrocytoma brain tumor; after 17 hours of surgery in October and February, her tumor is thankfully completely gone. She has no neurological deficits and odds are it won’t come back – but she will have MRIs every three months to check. Phew! We have a new appreciation for many, many things: the endless support and prayers of family and friends, health insurance, medical technology and the brilliant doctors and nurses who know how to use it. It is truly amazing what they can do now. The same week that we found out Annie’s tumor was truly 100% gone, Lorin found out he has been promoted to Admiral! We will thankfully not be moving. I am still a high school social worker at The Harbour School and love my job. Jack (15) has gotten off to a great start in high school at Severn and Jimmy (14) and Annie will join him next year. All the kids at the same school will be awesome! Laurie crossed paths with Lynn Goldstein Phillips last summer when Lynn went to Ocean City to see her dad. They spent a day at the beach catching up after 30+ years. Lynn’s son graduated from University of Washington (atmospheric sciences major) and her daughter has started at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, just 30 minutes from the Canadian border and Vancouver, BC. “I am still working for my husband’s financial

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software company. We telecommute so we get to work at home and therefore I have quite the selection of sweatpants! I had another great visit with Sheila Maith recently - she made an incredible DC tour guide, even at two degrees outside. Shout outs to Catherine Hilgartner Masucci and Patti Evans Best for being great Words with Friends buddies! Catherine is preparing to move back to B’more and send her triplets off to college this fall. Joey is headed to Champlain College in Burlington for computer art and animation, Clare is going to Worchester Polytechnic Institute to study chemistry and Maggie will follow in Catherine’s footsteps, attending Denison University (where Lisa and I went, too!)

Marge Csobaji Smith reports: My kids are growing up way too fast (a common theme for all of us, I’m sure)! Sydney Siegmeister, 2017 is a freshman at RPCS this year and really loves it, along with lacrosse and the concert choir. Sam is a junior at Friends and is into math, robotics and computer science. Last summer, we took a trip to Budapest, which was awesome. Sydney’s choir was touring there and we decided to make a family trip (with my parents and sister Georgette in tow).

The highlight was a family reunion with four of my father’s first cousins and many of my second cousins. It was a blast and now, we’re all connected on Facebook. Last summer, Johanna Miller Lewis and her husband Michael travelled to San Juan, Puerto Rico and “visited as many historic sites as my stupid knee would allow. In October, my mom turned 85 and I was happy to be there for her birthday luncheon.” We were sad to learn of the death of Johanna’s mother this spring from esophageal cancer. Classmates Jane Bennett Taeger and Sheila Maith were at Johanna’s side for the funeral. Sonia Hosono Mintun and family are still in Cleveland working away. “My oldest son Michael graduated May 2013 and moved to Jacksonville, FL to work for Sherwin Williams.

My younger son Peter graduates from Cornell in May and is pursuing his PhD in applied

Laurie Alkire Selby, 1979 and Lynn Goldstein Phillips, 1979 in Ocean City

physics. On a sad note, my dad passed away on Thanksgiving Day in Hawaii where he was living.” Sony would love to come to the reunion because she hasn’t been to B’more in ages, since her mom is now in California. It’s been a busy year for Patti Evans Best and her family. “My oldest son Karl graduated from Old Dominion University last spring with a double major (international business and German) and is now working and taking graduate classes in State College, PA. He and his fiancée Lizzie are planning an August 2015 wedding. My younger son, Gray, is still going to school in Charlottesville with a nutritional science major and is working part time for a local caterer, learning the trade and serving at various events. I’m still here in Wiesbaden, survived the furloughs and government shut down, and starting to look forward to retiring from government service.” Patti ran the London Marathon in April and has several other races planned for the summer and fall.

She is a member of the Children with Cancer, UK running team and now runs her races in conjunction with fundraising events for them. From Nancy Scriba Noppenberger: My son Daniel is a Loyola Blakefield senior and will pursue a degree in industrial design in the fall. Claire (16) is a sophomore at Maryvale and (just like her mother) is somewhere on stage at every dramatic or musical performance they offer! Both of our kids are making Lou and I look like slackers. Claire and I went on one of those formula high-school trips to Europe last year (four girls to a room, pizza for dinner every night, exhausting days of sightseeing), and all we can remember is the wonderful times we had. We saw five Italian cities, stayed in Switzerland for three days and finished in Paris at the summer solstice. So glad I did it, even as one of only three parents on the trip with about 40 high school kids from Florida, California and Maryvale. Missy Harper Rose is “busy with my volunteer endeavors and looking forward to celebrating our youngest Hunt’s graduation in May from Temple University as a finance and entrepreneurship major. With all this snow, we were happy to vacation once again in Los Cabos with daughter Trish, who lives and works in Boston, by enjoying the sun, warm weather and great golf.” Kathy Levy Crenner is now an empty nester with daughter Emily living in NYC and working at the Bronx Zoo, while Nathaniel is a freshman at Middlebury. “We’ve had some great trips to New York and Vermont this year to visit them.” Hope you’ll come to B’more October 11, Kathy! All is well for Page McDonald Crosby who now has only one son in school, one living at home and employed and the oldest one, self-sufficient in Boston.

She enjoyed a post-snow vacation in sunny Key West. In September, Elaine Howard Christ moved her parents to Roland Park Place where they have a view overlooking the Rotunda all the way to the Key Bridge.

“Ironically they are right down the hall from Johanna’s parents and across the hall from Jean Silber, Janet’s mom. My youngest Patrick went off to college where he’s acclimating well. First semester people would ask, “How’s the empty nest going?” and I’d say, ‘”I don’t have one because my parents are still in it!”

Once I sorted through 40 years’ worth of stuff to put their house in Homeland on the market and it sold, I can now say I am officially an empty nester. You will appreciate the fact that among all the boxes and bags I sorted, I found a piece of fabric cut, pinned and ready to sew into a quilted long skirt.” Remember those groovy long quilted skirts from fourth grade?

Anyone still have theirs? Warner and Cary Smith Mason “enjoyed a fabulous trip to London last fall to visit Allie Mason, 2011 who was spending her fall semester abroad.

Absolutely loved it and highly recommend the fat bike tour through the parks! Our son, Warner Jr. is a freshman at Johns Hopkins University so it’s nice to see him come home for dinners occasionally, but not so nice to find his laundry in the washer. I’m working part time for Catherine’s sister, Emilie Blaze and Janie Susemihl Vaughn, 1974 at The Little Shoebox in Ruxton and loving it! Spend every paycheck on shoes!” Jeanie Dyer Jones texted from Rome, where she’s visiting daughter Katherine spending a semester in Italy. Her oldest son, Clay, is now in training for the Army in Ft. Benning, GA. Youngest son Augie just finished his freshmen year at Cornell. Last summer, Sheila Maith “planned and executed a three week land and cruise vacation through Italy, Greece, Turkey and Croatia with 16 family and friends. My son is at Oberlin where he continues to run cross country and steeplechase and apparently is studying as well. I am digging that my 12-year-old daughter and I get to hang out and do girl things. Most recently she came along with me to a work trip to LA and we saw Hollywood, which was very fun. I am still doing consulting and executive coaching and have been working on my leadership coaching certificate at Georgetown this spring. I had a wonderful weekend with Lynn Goldstein Phillips in January with great food, shopping and most of all, laughing. I hope to join you all in October.” Deeley Close Middleton continues at Maxim Health Care Services as VP Clinical Services NE region which keeps her very busy!

Oldest son Ben is a second year law student at University Baltimore Law and loves it. Michael is out of college and working in DC in a new

job at Burson Marsteller, a PR and communications firm. Emmy Middleton, 2016 is a sophomore (sweet 16!) at RPCS, riding a lot and competed for first time in Florida in a winter series. Bella, a St. Bernard puppy, joined the family and is on the way to 150 lbs! Last fall, Deeley and Bob went to Ireland and stayed in a 200 year old cottage out in middle of nowhere - gorgeous area, wonderful small towns with great pubs. Bob’s insurance program (Arts Insurance Program) is growing by leaps and bounds and allows them to take in a few shows as a perk! That’s a wrap folks, except for me, for whom there is not much news. I’ve basically taken the year off from an office job, working part time as a home organizer which I really love, while putting in a lot of hours getting our home front under control and volunteering at kids’ schools. Biggest change has been for son Jack who started sixth grade at Landon School for boys. I’m still seeking emails to get us reconnected with Selby Hall, Kate Pyeatte Helleloid, Darlene Bennett and Minni Bhagavan Gopal. Let me know if you’re in touch with them! Hope to see you in October!

Yours in Kelley Green and Feeley Blue – Long Live the Bald Dog (alias Le Chien Chauve!)

Class of 1980 Helen Otto Tuten helen2ten@gmail.com So, the ladies of 1980 seem to be happy, are thriving, and still embody an adventuresome spirit. Martha Galli-Leslie sends news from Holland: Raphael is 12 and just made the track and field team. He likes math more than English, but is working on the latter. He loves building Lego structures with friends and is in his second year with the trombone, tending toward jazz. Helen, now 20, is still at Leiden University but switched from law to international studies and is happier. Her boyfriend Derek works in banking; we will see where this goes. She still plays the harp. Ivo is still at the Patent Office and sitting as judge on the bench over (international) patent disputes.

And I am still at Westeinde Hospital (Medical Center of the Hague) and now teaching medical students as well as residents. Trying to eek more time to write poetry….will succeed this year. Jennifer Nutt writes: In December we traveled to Copenhagen for a cousin’s bar mitzvah. The next evening, our cousin showed my boys the rollercoasters at Tivoli while Herb

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and I enjoyed mulled wine and apple pastries with other relatives at one of several bars inside the park. Even more fun than Disneyland!

Kathy Connor shares: It was a very long winter in Philadelphia, just as it was for most of our classmates. I spent Christmas with Susie Miller Lloyd and her girls which was wonderful.

I was able to escape with friends to warmer weather in Oahu last month, which was a much needed break. It has also been great to see classmates’ postings on Facebook and to keep in touch. So glad to finally see spring on the horizon! Wallis Weiner-Trapness states that her news is “boring,” but I think a bit of “boring” is very settling to the soul! She shares: still living in New Jersey. It has been 12 years now. My husband, P.A., is still commuting to NYC every day so that the family can enjoy the simpler, country life with our animals: horses, dogs and cats. Our boys are growing up quickly, eldest looking at colleges, hoping to get back home to University of MD. I am still the ‘pit crew’ here at home, but do enjoy lots of riding, running and tennis as well. We are all healthy and happy and blessed to enjoy each day. Mira Courpas writes: Although I am keeping busy with 16 year old Annika and 20 year old Asher, I continue to love my career as a residential landscape designer and recently had the opportunity to tour the amazing RPCS campus. I got lots of ideas on sustainability as I ventured into the back woods, urban meadow project, butterfly garden, vegetable garden, green roof and more. I love seeing all the forward thinking projects RPCS has incorporated into the campus and the curriculum. Please visit if you are in DC! Jenny Jensen brings us up to date by saying: I married my longtime partner, Dianna Lord, on July 19, 2013. We married in Iowa in the 48 hours between my returning from a work assignment in another city and the beginning of my annual bike ride across Iowa (Des Moines Register Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa). We enjoyed a belated honeymoon in Ambergris Caye, Belize in March. We are starting to think about where we would like to retire and welcome any suggestions. One of the locations we are considering is San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and we would love to hear to from anyone who has visited or lived there! Leslie Summers McCracken shares: We have had a good year in Cincinnati. I have two kids about to graduate this year from college: Caroline from Indiana University and John from a Full Sail University film school in Orlando. My stress will now begin as they try to find jobs!

I just wish one of my family members lived in the same state. I still have hopes that someone will end up in Baltimore! My retired husband has taken on some consulting jobs along with being my new lunch date. Caroline studied

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Sons of Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981 in Cartagena, Colombia

abroad last summer in Paris and Dublin. We decided to spend 12 days in Ireland traveling the countryside and ended up in Dublin. Aside from my death grip on the arm rest while David drove us all over on the opposite side of the road, it was a wonderful trip. I just loved Ireland. It was the most beautiful country and the people were just the nicest you will ever meet. When we were at a pub in Dublin, David left me for about five minutes to get to the bar and upon his return, I was arm in arm with three old guys dancing and singing.

This year we also rented a beach house in Charleston. My mom is still going strong and still crazy fun. Her husband Art, at 75, was boogie boarding all day. It was his first time ever and Lily was his teacher. There was a moment when I was actually the lifeguard for Lily (6), my mom (80), Art (75), and David.

And as you know how un-athletic I always was, (It took Robin and I an hour to walk/ run around the block in gym class) and still am, the picture was grim for any actual saving to occur! I miss you all! Maura Chippendale’s news tells us: We have had quite a mild winter down here in southwest Florida, thankfully. In fact, we still have a condominium for sale if anyone is interested in purchasing a beautiful Riverfront one! Hint. Hint. I have been quite busy lately. I’m getting ready to move my practice about a mile down the street as we will now be a standalone audiology practice.

I’m also in the homestretch of finishing my doctorate in audiology and will be finished at the end of June… finally. I look forward to having my weekends and nights free and not having to study after that! Hopefully, I can spend some more time with my parents, my husband and my kids. My daughter is still in Colorado studying at CSU and working for a

veterinarian. My son is still a Marine and will be deploying again in May. My husband travels about half a year to South America where his business is based. So as you can see, if I don’t have school to worry about I can travel more to see everybody! I was happy to catch up with Laurie Williams Castro in Colorado last year! We actually ended up having dinner on my birthday! It is amazing to see that after all these years we sure have not aged! And my news, is as follows: As our last little bird is about to take flight from the nest, I have added in as many yoga practices as possible to my week and am now having to squelch the urge to drop into a calming downward dog while waiting in long grocery lines. (I did feel a long layover in the airport was an appropriate time to do a few poses; though David did not join me, he did not abandon me either!) I love the spiritual and physical benefits of the practice of yoga and hope it will inspire me to gracefully move into this new phase of life. Our fledgling, Abiwren, is heading to the Nursing School at the University of Vermont this fall; Caleb is finishing his junior year at Princeton studying economics, Spanish and Portuguese; and Seth lives in Key West, aspiring to be an inn keeper.

We had a lovely visit with Fran Bennett this spring. Through her masterful gardening and artistic eye she has created a lovely home.

I also had the charming opportunity to visit and catch up with Melinda Hartley Zachary.

We have shared a few meals together and so easily giggle like school girls again! Now that this winter is over, our home is once again accessible, and open to visitors seeking a peaceful hilltop retreat! And remember: Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw

Class of 1981 Ann Schlott Hillers annhillers@gmail.com It seems the recurring theme of the Class of 1981 (minus the slack factor - so few responded this year - why no love for class notes?) is the dawning that we are now officially in our 50s and that many of us are becoming empty nesters and feeling a shade old. With that has also come an awareness of the passing years, and touch of melancholy, but also change, excitement and a positive look toward the next 50 years. FYI: I’ll host our 50th down here in Mexico. Those who can make it get a free place to stay. Arriba! Karol McAdam Obora: Two visits to the ER today with same kid and now home to class notes request. Ugh! LOL. All good here. Travel sports teams have taken over our lives, but we’re having a ball! Out in the midwest, we are hanging on to the craziness of a new high schooler seeking his independence in all sorts of interesting ways while corralling our suburban youth sports mania of twin nineyear-olds who insist on multiple sports each season. Maddie is a little mini me which cracks us up and Christian is a mini Brian - full of mischief. Soon they will be ten. Shocking! I am still working from home heading up product planning and development for a software company which allows me to escape to school just in time to meet our allergy challenges.

Muffie Cook Sandberg: I have recently downsized and love our new townhouse in Charlesbrooke where Jay, Ward (when he is home from college), and I are living. Jay (16) is finishing his sophomore year at Gilman and about to get his license. Ward (20) is just finishing up his freshman year at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Todd (24) is working hard selling roofs and windows for Power Home Remodeling. I continue to work at Connections Education as the Senior Manager of Student Experience. I am trying to keep ahead of all the young things with regards to technology. A huge shout out goes to Vicky Stuelpnagel Murray and Missy Sinwell Smith who have been amazing friends throughout this past year. Jeanne Gerstley Weiner: My boys, Zach and Jake, both Swarthmore College grads, will become roommates in NYC as of July 1. Zach works for J.P. Morgan, and I don’t really understand what he does, so maybe by the next Connections publication I’ll be able to figure that out and let you know.

Jake works for Citi, and he’s a programmer, doing more stuff I really don’t understand or could ever actually do myself. I told my boys that I hope they love being in NYC, but not

too much, because I want them to come back to Baltimore at some point. Emmy is finishing her sophomore year at Kenyon College, and unfortunately just tore her ACL in a lacrosse game. She tore her other ACL a few years ago, so she’s not new to what she has ahead of her in terms of surgery, recovery and rehab. The field hockey team is certainly going to miss their center back, and I know she’s bummed that she’ll be watching from the sidelines come September and field hockey season. Allie is finishing ninth grade at McDonogh, and is ready for summer, when she can return to Maine and spend the summer at Tripp Lake Camp, the same wonderful place I went every summer! Jeff and I are doing well, adjusting to life with just one kid around, who often has plans, leaving us with time alone. Yikes…gotta figure out some things we can talk about!

Can’t believe how quickly these kids grow up!

Clare Stewart Perry: We are finishing our second year in Beijing where we have been working at an International School. I gather there is some Facebook action here and there, but no easy access through the big firewall. At the end of May, we make our way back to Northampton, MA to touch base, get grounded, give kids a chance to catch up with their friends and of course eat our favorite foods. Not sure if I was always this way but I am a true foodie! Then, in early July, we head to Santiago where my husband, David has signed two-year contract as High School Principal of an 1800 student International School. Before looking for consistent work, I will be tutoring, helping the family get settled

Julia Somerville Ulstrup, 1981 and her son Christian Ulstrup

and hoping to learn more Spanish than I did Chinese. Not many friends and family visited us in Beijing, but hoping more will venture south to see us in Santiago! Kids are excited (16, 14, and 12!). They are all trying to get over the adolescent hormonal hump.

Fortunately at 51, I have stared down the midlife hormonal chaos and just in time, beginning to feel rather reasonable. Andrea Strudwick Bender writes: After years of being a hockey mom, this year I was introduced to the position of “dance mom.” Hard to see “my little girl” walking around with hair lacquered up in a French twist, lots of eye liner, fake eyelashes, bright red lip gloss, sequins and fishnet stockings. Kind of funny when I think of the time I have spent battling what she wears to school! When we first moved here I laughed when I read that school would be closed if wind chill was 40 below or colder. Ha! We had three school closings this winter! Beth House Graham: The Grahams are now just three living at home (youngest Maria is 16). Duncan, 24, has become a “grown up” working on the newsroom floor doing computer stuff that he explains to me in small bites. He also designs for private clients and works on his own programing projects that always sound brilliantly creative to the proud mother.

Rachel, 20, lived, worked and studied in Paris last year (we visited her twice and what a growing up experience it was for me for my 18-19 year old to be so far away) and is now is at UMD College Park, living the college girl life and loving it. She asked me when she left for UMD if I’d cry? My reply, “No, you already ripped my heart out when you left for Paris.” Truth be told there were still quiet tears. This phase of motherhood makes me so grateful for the time and close bond I had with the kids’ homeschooling. Which leads me to... this past year the doors to Graham Academy were closed, but it’s always open in spirit.

Maria is a real girl going to a real school: Friends. The Grahams never do things in the traditional framework and this transition to school just sort of happened upon us. It was time since homeschool with just mom wasn’t the same with the other two flown from the nest. I’m teaching yoga pretty much full time at various Baltimore locations plus corporate and private clients. I love what I do plus get to see Vicky and Annlee Jones-Boutwell (Booper) in classes that I teach and take. Other than teaching yoga, I co-lead a program called Balanced Bodies that incorporates yoga and meditation with nutritional instruction. We are now re-writing our book and looking for publishing opportunities. Plus doing the nitty gritty of turning the program into more of an official business. The other fun news is I’m filming my first yoga DVD in a series called

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Andrea Strudwick Bender, 1981 and her daughter

Yoga Foundations. Of course it’s available for sale! One of my “students” will be Scott. Scott and I have been on a journey to simplify. After a few years of nudging him to sell our house in Phoenix he relented. So we sold and gave away much of what we own. It was both freeing and scary! We’ve been vagabonds since fall of 2013. Living first in Roland Park (loved it) and now in Homeland (Maria can walk home from school and I walk often to shop at Belvedere Square…plus The Senator for movies). Scott’s in charge of our next move (approved by me). We’ll wait until Maria graduates in 2016 and find or remodel or build our next home as “empty nesters.” Every day is great and over all we’re having a lot of fun.

Summer vacation is planned for the Grahams to be in Martha’s Vineyard. The times when the five of us are together are my most cherished moments. I truly couldn’t be happier or feel more blessed for my life. Jorie Rice Cogguillo: In a few short weeks I will be the parent of a college grad! Will: Lehigh Bioengineering. He will spend the next year getting an MA in applied math (whatever that is), courtesy of Lehigh and will be available for hire spring 2015. Megan survived another frigid New Hampshire winter at Dartmouth College and is looking forward to spending sophomore summer on campus. Grace is a sophomore at Lauralton Hall, an all-girls’ school that reminds me of RPCS (although they prefer cookies to croutons), where she plays field hockey and lacrosse and is a founding member of the Cookie Club. Leah, my seventh grader, loves lacrosse, tumbling and all reality television. I am enjoying working part time and making my own hours, allowing me plenty of time for my second job

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as chauffeur and seventh and tenth grade sports fan. Julia Somerville Ulstrup: The last year brought lots of changes chez Ulstrup – all good. First and foremost, Leif and I officially became “empty nesters.” Christian (22) graduated from Duke in May 2013 and is working in Santa Monica, California. Sarah (19) is thriving as a freshman at Oberlin College in Ohio. I am back at work full time now and, in September 2013, took on a new role as Vice President and General Counsel at ICI Mutual Insurance Company. Since then, I have been traveling quite a bit for work – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, Orlando, Key Largo, London and even Hannover, Germany. Leif and I will celebrate our 27th-wedding anniversary in June. We still live in Washington, DC and are planning to host an off-year, mini-reunion for our class at our home this summer. Julie George Evans: I’d been waiting for a piece of news that I hoped to report and it has just now come true. I’m the proud mama of a new RPCS Semiquaver. I wanted so much to be a Semi myself, except for the small fact that I can’t sing. Now I get to enjoy the experience vicariously through my daughter Claire, 2016 who is currently a sophomore. I can’t wait to hear her singing Hodie at the next Christmas concert. In other happy news, Dan and I recently celebrated our 25th anniversary. Our son Austin is finishing his freshman year in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Engineering, and is happily situated in Madison planning to major in biomedical engineering. I am currently pursuing a master’s in professional writing at Towson University. Some students in my class weren’t born when I was married in 1989. It’s been challenging, but good. Amy Wheeler: I have just returned from four days at a Qigong retreat taught by Eva Wong, a Taoist practitioner and the 19th generation carrier of the Xiantianwujimen lineage. I return feeling incredibly rejuvenated and inspired! Qigong and the benefits associated with the practice are of particular interest to me as an acupuncturist. At the beginning of February we moved our Vermont acupuncture practice to the next closest town. We are now situated in downtown St. Johnsbury, which is by all accounts the “city!” We are in an historic building - the Octagon Building, circa 1854. It’s quite different from the little Wellness Center that we had in our hometown of Barnet and it has been a good move. Having turned 50 in January I made a commitment to do one thing a month - some sort of adventure - to celebrate this year. So here are a few things I have planned and am looking forward to: a mid-June three day backpacking trip on a portion of the Appalachian Trail with a couple of girlfriends, and, most especially, a trip that

my husband, Barry, and I have planned for mid-October. The celebration of our 18th year together! We are going to Santa Fe, NM to visit a dear friend from Maryland who moved there a few years ago. From there we will fly through Las Vegas where we hope to take in a Cirque de Soleil show and then head off to Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah to do some hiking in the canyon lands there. Ann Schlott Hillers: I’m still living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, voted the #1 travel destination in the world by Conde Nast Traveler last year so come on down! Jorie and Molly came last year for our collective 50ths; now they’re coming back with their husbands in tow. I’m already planning out the week, trying to cram in horseback riding in the countryside, sheep tacos in the local market, fireworks and Aztec dance ceremonies in the main plaza, and margaritas on a variety of rooftop decks. I’m hoping to convince all of them to retire here. The Hillers family spent Easter in Cartagena, Colombia, which was on my bucket list for years. A fantastic trip - even the kids loved it with a 400-year-old stone wall circling the city, old guard towers, cannons and a huge fort to repel the Caribbean pirates.

We are building a new home in San Miguel so are leaving for the summer while it’s under construction. We’ll spend several weeks in SE Asia, starting in Thailand, moving through Laos and Cambodia, and ending up in Bali for a month. The heat has been described as “debilitating” so I have my fingers crossed our family can handle an experience of this length under these conditions. I should check in with Clare Stewart Perry for survival tips. I write this on Dabney’s 51st birthday and as always, think of her with great love and a good laugh.

Here’s to you, Linwood Johnson.

Class of 1982 Kathy Keys Osborn bmorekathy@verizon.net As we move towards and past our 50th birthdays, some of us still have children in elementary school, some have children on the verge of graduating from college and some are about to experience the empty nest for the first time! But really and more importantly, we are all turning 50! How did that happen? And does anyone other than me still feel about 30?

Reminds me of a tee shirt I saw once that said, “Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the #$%* happened?” On the subject of turning 50, Brittish Miser writes: Kerry Schloeder Boyle, Suzy Dunseath Bohn

Ammara Elsevier, 2021 daughter of Asmat Khan

and I celebrated Beth Atkins Schroeder’s surprise 50th on Long Island, NY in January.

We were joined by what seemed like a crowd larger than that which welcomed the new pope. Beth looked great, putting 50 to shame.

Kerry and husband, Steve, came down from Hartford and are preparing to send their first born off to college next year. Fortunately, Kerry and family already enjoy eating rice with a smattering of beans as they enter the fun and challenging world of parents supporting their loved ones in college. Suzy takes it as the furthest travelled with a jaunt in from Minnesota though escaping three sons, a husband, and a dog for a girls’ weekend did not take much arm pulling. I, as geographically savvy as always, had to look up Minnesota’s location on a map. At Beth’s party, she assumed she was innately becoming more entertaining as the evening went on only to find out that the innocent looking “fruit juice dispenser” at the party, which she was serving Beth’s elementary aged nephew from, was actually riddled with alcohol. Erin Murphy is anticipating her upcoming big day!

She says, “It has been a very busy year for me.

My daughter Maddie graduated from RPCS last year. She is a freshman at Towson; it is so nice for us to have her near, and most importantly, she is loving it. I am working as general counsel for a growing real estate investment and management company; it keeps me very, very busy! Like many of us, I am about to turn 50. I am looking forward to celebrating in March in St. Thomas with much

of my family! I don’t know about you, but I still love my birthday!” Another classmate who will be celebrating her birthday with style is Wendi Frenkil Biemer who writes: Still enjoying the empty nest, still hoping to move downtown, oldest son is getting married in May and will be spending six weeks in Paris for my birthday with family and friends. Life is Good! Susannah Dwight Prout writes: I am still nursing for an oncology practice and teaching exercise on my other days. I finished a year-long course at the Institute for Intergrative Nutrition and am putting on my thinking cap for my next stage in life. My two oldest boys are at Georgetown and I have a junior and seventh grader left at home. Jim travels two times a month to Germany so maybe one of these days I will go with him when my nest is without teenagers. Ingrid Boyton Polk also has 50% of her children away at school. “I am having a great year now that my youngest, Kristin, 2014 also got into her first choice college (UVA) and my oldest, Natalie, 2012 is finishing up her sophomore year at Clemson.

Yes, we will have some ACC rivalries going on for the next few years and I love it! Both girls are in engineering programs – guess they have their father’s brains and not mine! Then to make me even happier, we got a puppy! Sadie is a cockapoo and a real joy. I think I was getting nervous about having an empty nest! She will keep me busy, that is for sure! My friends are worried that I won’t know what to do with myself when Kristin graduates in June since that will mean my 15 years of volunteering at RPCS for my girls will come to an end!

Can’t wait to see what I decide to do with myself!” Margret Bower’s children are also approaching the leaving-the-nest age. She

Amy Taliaferro, 1982 and her dog Emmie Lou

Natalie Polk, 2012 and Kristin Polk, 2014, daughters of Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982, with their new puppy Sadie

writes: Two high schoolers, same husband, same cat, got a rescue dog who is highly needy, but fabulous. Going on my first business trip since becoming a teacher to the National Science Teachers Convention in Boston thanks to a grant program from the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation. Four nights without anyone to take care of is pretty darn exciting.

As part of this grant, I will also be training other teachers about teaching science, which makes me laugh a little, as biology at RPCS almost did me in. Life is very busy, but happy.

Not sure how I feel about my kids leaving the nest awfully soon, and I hope I will have as much fun on my 50th as it looks like some of you have been having! Amory Clifford Woodman likens sending in her news with a visit to the dentist, but she still managed to give us this great update and some photos of her daughter. “March of 2013 brought a total knee replacement for my husband. He was in and out of the hospital in three days and home for four weeks. Of course this was also a very heavy snow period where if I remember we had three major storms. Enough said. I recently realized that for two years I have been telling people I was 48. So not only did I lose a whole year in the blink of a text message, it pushed me that much closer to 50! Which I can already tell I will not be taking gracefully.

Summer was a whirlwind and very short as I was sending my daughter off to college as a freshman, but also sending her to Australia.

Denial hit once again that I had an 18-year-old daughter. I managed to hold it together in the airport and, needless to say she had an amazing time. We decided when else would we make the trip of a six hour flight to LA then 15 plus hours to Sydney, if not to see my little girl at the end of her term. So off we went to bring her home. The thing we do as parents. We did some sightseeing, met up with her in time for Thanksgiving, packed her up and traveled for two weeks seeing a small piece of Australia and New Zealand. We had a fantastic time

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Charley Scace, speedskater and son of Casey Case Scace, 1982

and it was a trip to remember. I even zip lined!

I felt like a kid at the end of the sixth run asking if we could do it again! We flew home just in time to drive thru a snowstorm....only in New England. Christmas came very fast and we were the host for the festivities. By January 2, I found myself saying goodbye yet again to my daughter for spring semester, but knew she wasn’t that far away this time.”

Asmat Khan is in the throes of raising an elementary school kid (okay, almost middle schooler!) Asmat says: We have had a fantastic year. After eight months of having her leg in a boot and surgery, Ammara Elsevier, 2021 got the boot off in June and now is back in full form! She’s running, back in ballet and swimming. We celebrated her recovery with a great trip in July traveling to London, Amsterdam and Paris, then in August spent a week in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. Ammara turned 11 in November and is in the fifth grade at RPCS. She loves school and this year was the voice for the Lower School on the school’s radio commercial and for the prospective parents video! Willem is still with the Baltimore City Government as an architect and city design planner, and I am still an attorney with the USPTO. Recently, we had my friend’s two teenage kids come stay with us from France for three weeks so Ammara loved having the house full of kids. Nothing like a little total French immersion to kick one’s language skills into gear. We spent winter break going all over the place with the kids, I don’t think we missed

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a tourist attraction in Baltimore, Washington or New York, throwing in a little laser tag and bowling for the full experience! We are looking forward to spring with all its activities and then Ammara’s graduation from the Lower School! How did that happen so fast?! We send everyone our best wishes for 2014! Tommie Duncan is also still enjoying the elementary school years with her son. She says: Still love working and living in Washington, DC. For the past three years I’ve been working as the Panel Executive for the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. (In English that means I’m the Executive Director of the staff for a national court of seven federal judges who focus on complex multidistrict litigation.) My son, Hunter, loves fourth grade.

He’s involved in lots of activities including playing soccer and basketball and is a brown belt in Tai Kwon Do, all of which gives him little time to take care of his pet fish, Gil. Not surprisingly that task is usually left to me.

Overall, life is good! Look me up if any of you are in DC! Kira Sekulow is looking to re-enter the workforce, writing that she is “job hunting in Baltimore, now that she’s finished homeschooling Corey who is in tenth grade at Boys’ Latin. Anthony is in sixth grade at Loch Raven. Is anyone’s business in need of some flexible work-from-home stuff done by an old, reliable, dependable classmate?” Lila Aguto Bain writes with perhaps the most exciting news: I guess I have some news to contribute this year. I got married! Managed to tie the knot before I turn 50 too! Imagine that.

Anyway - Dave and I had a simple civil ceremony at the Denver courthouse on January 17th - it was witnessed by my sister, Emily

Erin Murphy’s, 1982 daughter Maddie Muth, 2013 at Commencement

Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982 with daughter Kristin Polk, 2014 at the Cum Laude Induction and Ceremony

Aguto, 1987 and my cousin, Teresa. We were actually going to get married in the Philippines, but the red tape involved in trying to acquire a marriage license for even a small ceremony was too much. So we are going on a sort of family style honeymoon in February and will spend time in Manila with my parents and also spend four days in Balesin, a beautiful island resort situated southeast of Luzon. Other than that, not much else to report. I am still working as a CRNA near Denver. Dave is a scientist/ professor at the University of Denver. We love Colorado, but I have to admit that as I get older I’m not fun to ski with when the temperatures drop below 20 and I begin to wonder why I didn’t move to California ten years ago! Congratulations to Lila and Dave! I can certainly say I’ve enjoyed your tropical honeymoon photos that you shared on Facebook, especially during this particularly messy Baltimore winter! Amy Taliaferro says that she has “recently moved back to Baltimore after 30 years, and after three months living in the county, stumbled upon a grand apartment at the Tudor Arms on West University Parkway, for sale! Ten foot ceilings, chandeliers, fireplace, balcony...fancy. So, I am packing up again and moving back to Roland Park with my sweetie, Kayti. We are thrilled to soon be living in the city, within walking distance to Hampden, the dog park for our sweet Emmie Lou and within earshot of the bells sounding the hours at the Rotunda. I am practicing massage and craniosacral therapy in Ruxton and Catonsville, and soon from home in Roland Park. Also, I am in my second year of a three year training at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, looking to provide healing from trauma from a body/ sensation oriented approach.

I am also teaching Nia, which is a sensory based movement form that combines dance, martial arts and healing arts. I volunteer teach at the Hopewell Center for people affected by cancer, and hope to bring more classes to the city.

Lila Aguto Bain, 1982 with her husband, parents and sister, Emily Aguto, 1987, in the Philippines

LuJean Hall, former RPCS Director of the Upper School with Ann Daniels, 1982, Becky Schlott Redett, Heath Foster, 1983 and Lora Hargrove, 1983 at the Memorial Tree Dedication for their classmate Siobhan Sharkey, 1983

Currently, I substitute teach in various studios around Baltimore, including a class through the Renaissance Institute at Notre Dame, where I had the pleasure of teaching a class to Mary Lynn Havard Schnader’s mom! It was great to reconnect with her. Liz Brune writes: I’m enduring another Chicago winter and hope to be off the Weather Channel’s featured weather cities. Looking forward to a celebration of turning 50 with Carol Croft Linde, Katie Brooks McEntee, Val Edwards

Vaile and Wendi Frenkil Biemer in Paris this Spring. From Casey Case Scace: The Scaces are both still engineering at NIST where Charley attends preschool. In the fall Charley will start Kindergarten at Laytonsville Elementary where his older sister Anneke, is counting on his vote for student government president. The kids attend in line skating practices with their Dad. I promote swimming! I promise to invite you all should I manage to pull off a 50th birthday party. As for me, Kathy Keys Osborn, my husband Mark and I are still enjoying our wee three, while they’re still semi-wee. This is the last year they’ll all be in the same school, so we decided to pull everyone out for two weeks in January and we went on a road trip of epic proportions. The six of us (including my mom) drove from Towson to Sanibel Island, FL and back, with stops in Fort Myers, Atlanta, Pinehurst, NC and Chesapeake, VA to visit family along the way. We also managed to squeeze in visits to The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Legoland and the Clearwater Marine Aquarium! 3200 miles later, we made it home, safe, sound and tired, and most importantly, we all still like each other! Mostly. Finally, I’d like to wish all of my classmates a happy birthday, be it your 49th, 50th or 51st. After 30+ years, I continue to be impressed by your outpouring of love and support when one of us needs it. I am so proud to have been in your graduating class and to be able to call each one of you my friend! Love to you all! We were all saddened to hear about the passing of our classmate, Wendy Beer. We remember the person who she was and the positive energy that she brought to our class. Dear Wendy, we miss you.

Kathy Keys Osborn, 1982 with husband Mark and children Boomer, Max and Kate at The Magic Kingdom

Class of 1984 Linda Schaefer Cameron lindajschaefer@yahoo.com It is so hard to believe that our 30th (eek!)

Reunion is this year! Please mark your calendars for Friday, October 10 – Saturday, October 11! Of course, details will follow, but there will be a field hockey game and events at the school during the day Friday for those who can attend, and we thought a “girls’ night” on Friday evening would be fun and allow us to catch up with one another, before the festivities on Saturday evening with spouses. If you are on Facebook, we will use that as one mode of communicating details as well as mail of course. And if you have not provided your email address to RPCS, please do so or send it to me so we can stay in touch as we approach the reunion. So, onto the scoop…From the west coast, Brett Edwards Nausha writes: Life is good and warm out here in Pasadena, the perks of living in Southern California. My son George is a sophomore at the University of Colorado and Will is a senior waiting to hear from schools so Danny and I will be empty nesters next fall! We plan on doing some real traveling since all our vacations have been around the boys’ interests for the past 20 years. I have just started a new job with Nestle Nutrition and still have a lot to learn. I was in Baltimore last summer to celebrate my niece Christine Vaile, 2013’s graduation from RPCS and had a chance to catch up with Liz Law Meredith and Anne Ward Angel who shares:

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From the Class of 1984 Liz Law Meredith, Anne Ward Angel and Brett Edwards Nashua

Betsy, 2012 (20) is doing well at James Madison University and is gearing up for lacrosse season. Jack (15) loves McDonogh and is getting ready for a trip to Disney with the Honors Choir group that he is in. Tom and I both had meniscus surgery at the end of last year and we are working hard to be sure that we can get back on the tennis court. It is hard to get old! I am really looking forward to our

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reunion this year to catch up with everyone.

And Liz Law Meredith: enjoying my first grade teaching job at RPCS! It is great to be in such a wonderful community on a daily basis. My daughters are both in college which creates a very different pace at home. My husband and I spend a lot of time with our three dogs. I am looking forward to our reunion! Special congratulations go to Liz and her daughter Mattie, 2011 as a Mother-Daughter lacrosse duo who both won the NCAA Championship with the University of Maryland….Liz in 1986 and Mattie this May! Helen Havard Harchick also has kids in college, “two kids are gone: Morgan Harchick, 2011 is in Boulder, CO and Hewit Harchick, 2013 is attending Loyola University in Baltimore. Bo is a junior at Boys’ Latin and looking at colleges. Stuart and Alden both at Calvert, and we are looking for high schools for Stuart.” Debbie Elsnic Burgio is also on the way to the new phase of an emptynester. “It has been another year with a high school graduation in the house. Elizabeth graduated and headed off to our alma mater, University of Maryland. She and her brother are continuing the Terrapin tradition. I am glad they are so close to home. So Rob and I have been adjusting to a most-of-the-time empty nest. It is really different. Now what did we do before kids? We are both still trying to remember. Last August I went to Pittsburgh for a week of training to be a leader in our church’s Stephen Ministry program. I am training the next class of Stephen Ministers. This is a group of dedicated Christian lay people trained to walk along side people who are facing the

normal challenges of life: retirement, loss of a job, loss of a loved one, etc. It is an amazing program and I am so thankful to be a part of it. I am really enjoying genealogy/family history. I seem to be the collector of the family pictures and memorabilia. It is a lot of fun and has added a lot of boxes to my office. I am enjoying sharing my findings with the rest of the clan. I have even met some family members and made great friends. I am really looking forward to the reunion in October!” Patti Ordonez is “living in Puerto Rico and working as an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico. I love the island and am trying to democratize computing.” Cynthia Sarafidis Pierce writes: I have stopped working to take care of the kids.

They have been doing well in school Will (8) likes basketball and flag football and Lexi (10) is on the gymnastics team here in Virginia. We bought a house in Hilton Head, SC and it is in the middle of renovations. They say it is always best to buy the cheapest house on the block and we did. We bought a shack that needs a lot of work! But it is close to the beach so that is good. When we went to see it for the first time with the kids, it was empty and musty. Will exclaimed “It smells like dead people!”

Needless to say he is going to take some convincing that he will like the house when it is done. Kate Whitaker Chaplin has also moved. “Having lived on Little Cranberry Island for more than twenty years, year-round, our family moved this winter to Northeast Harbor. Our three kids (Louise, 12, Sannah, 9 and Whit, 9) have gone from a two-room K-8 school with nine other students to a “regular” elementary school with 24 kids in their grade!

I now walk to work, whereas Courtney rides the mailboat daily back to the island for his building/caretaking work. Summer will see us back on the island, and so far the adjustment has been challenging, but good. Mrs. Mainolfi, you’d be proud of us: the kids and I went out for a little Christmas play here in town and had so much fun, we decided to audition for a

The family of Debbie Elsnic Burgio, 1984 at Elizabeth’s graduation

production of Les Miserables. Whitaker got the part of Gavroche, and the girls and I are in the ensemble, which basically means we get to be beggars, whores and hags - we’re so psyched!” 2013 brought a new dog (our small but mighty, adopted Yorkiepoo) and two new drivers to the home of Amanda Schlott Lietman. “If I look like a shell of my former self at reunion, that’s why! I also left my job as web administrator at Hathaway Brown School and am about to start volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. Looking forward to seeing everyone in October!” Suzy Witmer Wolffe shares that her daughter Clare continues to go over her monthly data allotments on her cell phone, and Sarah loves taking classes at Clayworks, Sallie Benninghoff Warren’s old stomping grounds. I will be giving a talk at the National Art Education Association conference in San Diego in March on evaluating museum multiple-visit programs for school groups and aligning them with museum mission. Caroline McKeldin Wayner says: All is well chez Wayner. Peter continues to work from our third floor as a programmer and journalist. I’m finishing up a three-year stint as writing center director at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School and moving on to work with seniors in an as-yet undetermined place. This fall, Claire will start ninth grade at Poly with all of her RPEMS friends, and Charlie will move up to the middle school as a sixth-grader at RPEMS. Caroline was thrilled to be one of 25 women chosen this year as Baltimore’s Top Neighborhood Moms for her work both in the Wyndhurst neighborhood and at Roland Park Public. Per the Mayor’s Office: The Baltimore’s Top Neighborhood Moms contest honors strong and dedicated Baltimore women for their efforts to make their communities better, safer and stronger.

Looking forward to our 30th! Our neurosurgeon in the class, Raquel Dureza Muneses, shares: I tested out my hypothesis that it would be fun to spend three weeks in Maui. Conclusion: my hypothesis was

Will and Lexi, children of Cynthia Sarafidis Pierce, 1984

From the Class of 1984 Wendy Friedman, Sallie Benninghoff Warren, Linda Schaefer Cameron and Kate Tubman Cameron attend the Alumnae Valentine’s Luncheon

absolutely correct. Always the smart one!

Sallie’s daughter, Blair, 2013 “is enjoying her freshman year at Skidmore and has been named the Arts and Entertainment editor for the Skidnews. Junior year at RPCS is busy and exciting for Landon, 2015 - lots of college visits and preparing for next steps! And, Greg and I will be celebrating our 25 year anniversary in April!” Mary Caskey Gregory is “now a Principal at Brown Advisory, working with institutional clients. I have started a Duke Baltimore Women’s Forum (Nicki Smart Paterson, where are you?) My children Bridget and Farrell are 12 and ten, going to Calvert School, keeping things exciting and are the light of my life.”

Everything is great with Leslie Rice Masterman and family. “I’ve been busy these days leading the parent association at St. Joseph School in Cockeysville. I’m starting to sense that my children, Mallory, eight, Ali, ten, and Joe, 12, are finding my constant presence there embarrassing. Can’t say I blame them, pretty sure I would have felt the same way if my mom was around every corner I turned. I was at a lovely get-together with a couple RPCS-ers in February, where my electric car nerd husband found two other electric car nerds, Mary (Caskey Gregory) and Raquel (Dureza Muneses). His new soul sisters, you could say, and now Pete has a whole new appreciation of Roland Park Country School.” How fabulous!

Kathleen Finnerty Curtis shares: Locke and I are doing well. Locke completed his fifth Ironman this fall in Arizona. Our oldest daughter, Fannon, 2013 is at Auburn University. She absolutely loves it. War Eagle!

Caitlin, 2015 is in the 11th grade at RPCS and her indoor soccer team just won the Championship! Shelby is in seventh grade at Odyssey and is getting ready for their production of Into The Woods. I am thrilled to be the new Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at RPCS beginning July 1st. I am so excited for my new role and hope to see everyone at our 30th Reunion this year! As for me, Linda Schaefer Cameron, all is well. Dennis has loved his first year of retirement, particularly playing more golf! We traveled in Germany and Switzerland last summer on the Rhine River, and had a wonderful time. We are enjoying time with the family. I continue my work with CCS, an international fundraising/development firm, and love working with nonprofit organizations, from the Smithsonian to the Baltimore Community Foundation. I am a corporate vice president in the mid-Atlantic and love the work, the amazing people and the variety. It’s wonderful to hear the excitement from our classmates for our big reunion, and I am so looking forward to seeing all of you in October! Best wishes for a wonderful summer!

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Class of 1986 Kimberly Theis Sgroi Kimberlys6@me.com

Libby Murphy, HA, Beth Murphy Darrell, 1985, Carlisle Darrell, 2016, Maddie Muth, 2013 and Lindsey Miller Stone, 2001 at the Alumnae Valentine’s Luncheon

Class of 1985 Lenka Hopkins Nolan helenka.nolan@gmail.com Bridget Brennan: My family and I are leaving Atlanta and moving our home base to California. Three of my children are in college in Atlanta, New York City and Memphis. We started homeschooling my youngest this year.

Thanks to Anne Callard Pilson for sharing her experience with Calvert’s homeschool program. We love it. I just started a new job with Google in their network group which is why we moved. Esther McGowan: My recent

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news is that I bought a house in Brooklyn, which is amazing. And I have a new-ish job as associate director at Visual AIDS, which is a job that I love. We use visual art as a tool for HIV/AIDS education and advocacy. Becky Rothgaber Barnes: I am in my second year in the development office at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and I love it. Also keeping busy with family at home - Georgia finishing her freshman year at McDonogh, Campbell, 2020 in 6th grade at RPCS, and Holland and Duncan finishing second grade at Calvert. Loving being a Roland Park parent this past year! Lydia Nitya Griffith: News from me is that I have my first children’s book, A Child’s Journey into Yoga coming out this summer. I just started a publishing company and continue to promote Yoga with Nitya as my main focus of bringing yoga to children nationwide. It is an exciting time as I just moved back into Richmond City and I love being able to walk so many places including the VA Museum of Fine Arts which is just blocks away. My daughter is now 15 1/2 and making it through her first year of high school.

Life is full of blessings! Very Happy! As for me, Lenka Hopkins Nolan, we are in the midst of some fun change. Isabelle will start Upper School and Calvert will start Middle School next year. We also have a new puppy, Luna!

Liz Gould Neustaedter is living in Needham, MA with husband Dave, Abby (10) and Sarah (8), as well as two goofy dogs. She has been working as an executive recruiter at Isaacson Miller for over a decade and loves it. After enduring a never-ending winter, she is looking forward to summer, which includes a fifteenth wedding anniversary, lots of trips to Maine, Abby’s first year at sleep away camp (yikes!) and a trip to France. A long, long way from Giverny, spring finally has sprung in Portland, OR, home to Kimberly Theis Sgroi. Her four kiddos, Matthew (13), Caroline (11), Anna Catherine (8.5) and William (8.5), are all busy and growing as fast as the weeds that are now popping up in her garden. She is trying hard to keep up on both fronts. Kimberly and her husband Joe recently celebrated 19 years of marriage during a family spring break trip to San Francisco and Monterey Bay. Sarah Alfriend Ebert is also enjoying spring and her garden after “the longest winter in history!”

Her life is busy with a middle schooler and fourth grader. Owen is their lacrosse star and Meghan is moving towards the arts as she studies guitar and violin and rehearses for a few up-coming singing auditions. Her kids will go to a three-week overnight camp in Maine this summer, which they are both very excited about. Mom’s a little nervous, but Dad is looking forward to a “honeymoon” without them. Sarah hopes her travel business will slow down a bit so she can enjoy some “down time” without kids. Her husband David still teaches at the Odyssey School and, while he is off, has a “honey do” list a mile long. Nelly Greene Perkins and her family are still living in Sparks, MD, not too far from Sarah and David Ebert.

Giles will be a sophomore next year and Henry will be in the sixth grade. “No teenage drivers yet!” Nelly started a new job about a year ago working for a private equity fund in Baltimore

Sons of Dolly Alevizatos von Hollen, 1986

Haven Yeager and Madeleine Drda, daughters of Whitney Emory Yeager, 1986 and Meredith Wingate, 1986

called Ecosystem Investment Partners. Miji Kim continues to live in Columbia, MD with ten-year-old prepubescent twin girls, Faith and Hope, and is still teaching in the graduate school at the University of Maryland in the College of Education. Miji spent last year in Germany teaching in a doctoral program for the University. During her time “on the continent,” she travelled all over Europe while homeschooling the girls. Also, she recently took on a consulting job with a nonprofit and is assessing babies in the NICU at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Miji sends her best to her classmates, adding, “Can’t believe how old we’re getting. I met you all when I was my girls’ age and some of you have children the age we were when we graduated.

Hard to believe!” Ellen Delaski Yudt reports that she left CGI two years ago and is now working at GT Nexus doing product management operations. Her kids are growing up quickly, and Ellen is finding the teen years to be “challenging, but fun.” Katie O’Donovan Hanusik is still living in McLean, VA and working as a vice president for a PR firm that specializes in the technology sector. Last year Katie celebrated her twentieth wedding anniversary with her husband Tom. Her three boys (ages 16, 14 and 12) keep her on her toes with their school and sports schedules. The whole family just returned from a spring break trip to Paris where the boys impressed Katie with their desire to try to new foods and their interest in French culture “after many longsuffering years in French immersion.”

Stephanie Smith Perun is a proud resident of Durham, NC and is celebrating 20 years of marriage to Roman. She has been working hard to implement the “love it/hate it” Affordable Care Act. Stephanie has a driving daughter, Leander (16), who brings her back to Baltimore often for lacrosse tournaments.

Stephanie, Roman, Drew and Leander are always cheering hard for Duke - a football, lacrosse and basketball school! Laura Graham Hirschfeld works as controller of The Miracle Foundation, using her education “to help orphans in India instead of to count money for rich people.” She perseveres as a Girl Scout leader of Cadettes and serves on various boards and commissions when they are fun and/or interesting. Her husband Rob is an executive in the Cloud group at Dell. Her oldest son, Alex (18), will attend Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology next year, majoring in Computer Engineering. Her middle son, Isaac (16), does robotics and codes all day. “He’d quit school and get a job if it weren’t against the law!” Laura’s youngest, daughter Kate (12), just competed in robotics at the world competition where she and her team came in second for their project and third for robot design. Julie Flanigan Hill is, for the moment, still living in London with her family. She had a great visit with Susan Shugert Franyo last October in London and Paris. The Big News is that, after 18 years, Julie and family are moving to Charleston, SC this summer so that Andrew (15), James (11) and Charlotte (8) can

Children of Kiki Bourneuf Smith, 1986

enjoy a bit of Americana. The Hills are looking forward to a week in Italy with Meredith Wingate and her family before their move to the States. Meredith Wingate is excited to be taking a four-month sabbatical this summer from her job at the Energy Foundation to travel and relax with family. Sabbatical plans include two months in Italy and France (meeting up with Julie Flanigan Hill and family along the way), a month on the east coast (looking forward to seeing Whitney Emory Yeager and family on holiday in Massachusetts) and some downtime back home in San Francisco before re-entering the workforce.

Whitney is still in Greenwood Village, CO with her children Sam (16), Madeleine (14), and Haven (11) and her husband Tim. Whitney helps coach Haven’s fifth grade

Allie Graul, 2015 (with bowl) daughter of Dorothy Clark Graul, 1986 and Hailey Wolf, 2015 (directly behind Allie) daughter of Melissa Jones Wolf, 1986 with the RPCS Varsity Champion Badminton team

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Gus, son of Melanie Evans Wilson, 1986

lacrosse team, which brings back happy memories of her days at RPCS. She received her master’s of education from Regis University in the spring of 2013 and is in her second year of teaching middle school language arts in the Cherry Creek School District. Tim is still in real estate, developing senior housing. She sees Meredith Wingate each summer in South Dartmouth, MA and has been fortunate to connect with Birgitta Bortner Williamson and Anne Reilly Meredith during their annual ski trips. Whitney has loved her 14 years as a Colorado resident and continues to enjoy an active lifestyle. Melanie Evans Wilson is still in paradise with her kids Blake (13) and Gus (10) and her husband Michael. Melanie has been busy helping to form the Key West Youth Lacrosse League and is pleased to report that lax is alive and well on her island home. Melanie is also proud to announce the opening of their latest epicurean endeavor, White Street Station, Key West’s newest and hottest food truck! She recently enjoyed a beautiful lunch with Melissa Jones Wolf and family on a trip to the Keys. Melissa and her family recently spent a weekend in New York City where they watched the RPCS Semiquavers, including daughter Hailey Wolf, 2015 perform at Carnegie Hall. Her younger daughter, Courtney Wolf, 2017, is enjoying her freshman year at RPCS. Melissa and her husband Ted celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary in May. She adds, “It was great to see Melanie Evans Wilson this spring in Key West. The beach life suits her well!” Dorothy Clark Graul writes that she is a proud parent of RPCS junior Allie Graul,

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2015, a varsity badminton team player along with Melissa Jones Wolf’s daughter, Hailey.

The girls helped sweep the Badminton Championships this year! Dorothy adds, happily, that both girls have Janice Moore as their advisor. Beth Jarrett Wilkinson lives outside of Boston with her husband Jib and two boys, William (5) and Peter (3), who keep them very busy. Beth works two full-time jobs, one in human resources for Apple and the second as chief domestic officer for Household Wilkinson. Living the motto “work hard/play hard,” Beth enjoyed a few girls’ weekends away this past year, one of which was with classmates Dolly Alevizatos von Hollen and Lea Craig Ward. Lea writes that she and her husband Pete live in Owings Mills, MD with their two sons. JP (12) loves lacrosse and Craig (10) loves soccer. Lea went back to work part-time doing development for McDonogh School. She and her family are traveling to London and Scotland this summer.

Stacy Snyder Johnson is surviving life as a mom of two teenagers. James is a high school junior who became an Eagle Scout this year and keeps busy snowboarding and rock climbing. Emma is a freshman who loves being in high school with her brother and is excelling in field hockey, indoor track and lacrosse. Stacy is looking forward to celebrating her twentieth wedding anniversary with her husband Jamie after he returns from being chef for a team of cyclists participating in the Race Across America. Stacy and family live in Baltimore. Big changes are reported by Susan Weeks this year: she is now Susan Weeks Shey. She had an incredibly busy 2013 in which she travelled to six foreign countries and one state for work and one foreign country and four states for fun. She did, however, find time to get engaged, get married, buy a house, move, sell a condo and compete in the National Gingerbread House Competition (her team didn’t come close to winning, but had a lot of fun!). Susan left the world of global business payments and crazy work travel in January after 20+ years and joined the world of transportation in May (ironically, no work travel required). She lives in northwest Washington, DC with husband Eddie and previously feral cat Licorice. Lisa Krijger Nirula continues to love her work as an internist serving the uninsured/ underinsured population in Northern Los Angeles. She also loves to play tennis with her two leagues and hike the local trails with friends at least once a week. Her three boys will turn 14, 12, and ten this summer. Their activities, which keep her busily running all over town, include tennis, water polo, soccer, basketball, piano and violin. Lisa and her husband Ajay Nirula are unexpectedly

expecting again. Their baby girl is due in early June 2014! Congratulations, Lisa and Ajay!

Speaking of babies, Kiki Bourneuf Smith is in her second year of midwifery school. Too bad she won’t make it as far west as California this summer to help Lisa deliver that baby girl!

Kiki is living in Bennington, VT with her children Amelia (19), Moses (17), and Ezra (14), loving and patient husband, Rick, and faithful dog, Phoebe. Amelia is finishing her first year at the University of Vermont and loves it. She is majoring in environmental studies and English literature with a minor in sustainable food systems. She loves farming, hiking and Williams Carlos Williams. Moses is finishing up his junior year and is knee deep in college visits. He was the Vermont State JV Wrestling Champion at 120 pounds and the fastest pin of the season at seven seconds. Ezra loves high school and lacrosse. He is dressing for varsity and starting on JV at center. “The boy (all six feet of him) loves to run with a stick!” Kiki is enjoying her work as an assistant professor at a small women’s college in Troy, NY. Rick rides his bike every day and keeps things running smoothly at the house.

Kiki and Rick are looking forward to hiking out west this summer in the Grand Canyon and Utah. Laura Grotz Barringer is enjoying her work as a senior consultant at Deloitte.

She just returned from a wonderful vacation in Bermuda with her husband Carl. Her oldest son, Philip, is graduating from Upland (ninth grade) this year and going to Lawrenceville in the fall. Daughter Alix (13) is becoming quite the artist, and David (10) adores baseball and little league. This summer, Laura and Carl will be going on the Hero’s Journey weeklong program, “It’s sure to be transformative and fun.”

Class of 1987 Cynthia Kerr Salmond cksalmond@gmail.com I am writing to you on a beautiful sunny day in Maryland. It is a welcome respite after months of varying and depressing precipitation. How fitting then, that all of the updates this season were focused on our children (whether human or not). Adena Testa Friedman reports: There is always something going on here in the Friedman family. Our older son, Luke (18) is heading off to college in the fall at Washington University in St. Louis. He is very excited! Our younger son, Logan (16) has recently joined the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department and will spend his summer in fire training.

Monday, September 22, 2014 The Elkridge Club 6100 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21212

Go to rpcs.org to register or contact Kate Sunderland sunderlandk@rpcs.org 410.323.5500 x3081

My professional life is changing again, and I will be able to give a few more details soon.

My husband, Mike, is an artist focusing on pottery - it is so cool to see what he brings home! So, all in all, life is busy as ever! We are looking forward to the big updates, Adena.

Kim Feldman Lizmi tells us: My daughter Sophie just celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. We had a great affair with lots of great food and dancing. My son Ethan is doing well in the fourth grade now. I can’t believe he is ten years old and almost finished elementary school! I am still at Sinai hospital (22 years now) as a senior staff charge nurse in the labor and delivery unit. My husband, Al and I recently purchased two townhouses that we fixed up and now rent to families. Sounds like things are great over there in the Lizmi world! “Hey” is how Mary Boatwright Mulvey started her update: My daughters, Louisa (8) and Garland (6) are looking forward to the end of the school year. I am trying to keep them connected to Baltimore in small ways - they both started lacrosse this spring- a new sport in this area. I am busy at work as the nursing director for the state health department. My territory is a quarter of South Carolina (11 counties) so I am quite busy. And, always the healthcare professional, Mary reminds us, “get your flu vaccination annually!” Brooke Tinley Kremer is still in Atlanta with her husband, Dan and her children, Patrick (13) and Katherine (11) who keep them on their toes and in the car. Katherine does competitive gymnastics for 20 or more hours per week

and Patrick is playing lacrosse, basketball or football, depending on the season. Brooke says she is working part time in medical sales and still has a small photography business and sends her love to all. One of my favorite updates was from Krisonthie Sotir Martinson. Her daughter, Alex, will enter the Upper School at RPCS in the fall.

Kris had fun returning to campus and was amazed by how much the school has changed.

One of our wonderful teachers, Greg Timm was there to help Alex with course selections and of course, that was a happy reunion with former pupil and teacher. Hopefully, Alex will have a lovely time in geometry with Mr. Timm like we all did! Jennifer Fisher Henry gives us news from across the pond. Alexi, 14, is finishing ninth grade (which is the end of middle school and a year of big exams) is the soccer player/fan/commentator/reporter, and part-time chef. Julia, 11 1/2, is finishing fifth grade in what was her first year in a French school (she had been at Jen’s bilingual school for five years before that). She is a gymnast and part time inventor, if you ask her. The children are in transition to middle and upper school next year and that is making Jen feel a little old. Personally, I don’t think that is a word that I would use to describe her. She is teaching Zumba to kids and adults and that keeps her in great shape both mentally and physically! Jen and her husband spend lots of time outside in the garden and with the children and are very, very happy. Laura Killebrew Finney tells us that her daughter, Ralston, is at Garrison Forest School and will be in her last year of middle school next fall.

Laura has been helping Elise Wheeless Kiely in dealing with the aftermath of her family’s horrible house fire on St. Georges Road earlier this year. They were looking in the ashes for any remaining pieces and that must have been heartbreaking. The Roland Park community has been tremendously supportive of Elise and her family and specifically, the Class of 1987 wants you to know, Elise that we are thinking about you and hope that the recovery continues quickly. Karen McKoy Remaley has a tenth-grader (Katherine) at Carver Center for Arts specializing in dance. She says that she has “had some weepy moments when it hits me that she graduates in two years. At the same time I am very proud of the capable and confident young woman she is becoming.

She continues to take dance classes daily at a dance studio and competes on a team. Robert is a seventh grader at our local middle school.

He loves video games and has an amazing sense of humor. I am now the shortest person in my household (although that’s not saying much). It’s a trite expression but I can’t believe how time flies. I definitely treasure our

time together.” Karen, you may be vertically challenged, but you have the biggest heart and that is more important! Laura Waltz Hudson has departed Maryland for the sunny town of Cape Coral, FL. Laura and her husband are parents to four dogs and two horses. She is a consultant in equine care for Tucked Away Ranch, a holistic boarding facility. She spends her days in the pool at her home or at the beach.

She can’t stay too far away from Maryland, however as she is the off site manager for her family’s equine rescue (Greystone). She is also a dependable expert for Cecil County and reviews cases for their department of Animal Care and Control. Looks like we have another fantastic place in Florida to visit, friends! Amie Smith Aburustum and her husband, Nadeem, are staying busy with her three children, Andrew, Natalie and Andrew in New Jersey. The children are busy with sports and music and camps. Andrew was at space camp for a week earlier this year and loved learning about all elements of space!

Amie recently completed her term as PTA president and thought that she would be able to ride off into the parent volunteer sunset, but alas, she was called back to duty. She does a tremendous job and is a fantastic leader and children’s advocate, so I can understand why the school pursued her for a repeat term.

Amie was recently in town as my daughter, Elizabeth’s, confirmation sponsor. Liz (13) is an eighth grader this year and is energetic and outgoing and temperamental (read-just like moi). She recently told me that I was “not cool.” I just smiled and told her that all of my friends at senior day care thought I was “totally rad.” She rolled her eyes at me and stomped upstairs. When I called her down to leave for school, she was wearing my cowboy boots, jeans, tee shirt and sweater! I snarked, “I am not sure which part of me is not cool, but you are dressed just like me.” Cindy: one, Liz: zero. My son Jack (10) and I have renamed her and all of the other teens in our lives as “teenage-grrs.” Feel free to use this term as you see fit. Jack is looking forward to the summer and spending time in the yard using the tractor to cut the grass. He thinks it is just like driving a car! I have enjoyed writing this column each year, but am retiring my pen as of this post. Hopefully, someone will take a turn and begin a new era as Class Rep. My best to you and yours and I look forward to reading your updates in the future!

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From the Class of 1989 Peggy Webster Tomick, Laura Maslin Wille and Sarah Foster Rhea in Park City

Class of 1988 25th Reunion Class Rep Needed Darcy Christhilf Carroll shares: This year was very exciting for the Carroll family, as it included a move back into our new, renovated home and the chance to catch up with many of my 1988 classmates for our 25th Reunion. I was so excited to host my wonderful classmates and appreciated the effort so many made to travel far distances in order to participate in the weekend’s festivities. We laughed all weekend, reminiscing about the fun we had, the trouble we got in,and how connected we all felt even after all these years. I truly feel lucky to be a part of such an amazing class. On a personal note, I am enjoying my eighth year at Brown Advisory and have just completed my first year as a Board member at WYPR. I am so proud to be associated with this incredible organization.

I am still actively involved at RPCS as a Trustee and as a parent. RPCS continues to live up to my expectations and the traditions that bind me to it are alive and well. My girls (Hannah, 2022 and Sumter, 2025) just regaled me with tales of Field Day, which ended in a tie – I don’t remember that ever, but maybe it has happened before. I started thinking about Jenny Slingluff Levy eating a plate full of jello with her hands behind her back; Susannah Goldsborough Uroskie twirling around a bat and dizzily trying to make her way back to the starting line; an egg-spoon carrying race comes to mind but it is vague; and I believe

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there was a water balloon toss as well. The brain is becoming fuzzy, but I do recall how fun this day of inter-school competition could be. Before summer, I will have a MS graduate, which is blowing my mind even more than the fact that Hudson is now taller than I am. Time flies, so I am trying to savor the moments.

This year, in particular, was filled with lots of memorable ones. So Classmates: a plea – we still need a Class Rep. Let’s just not have my notes be it; how boring for all those reading Connections…someone please volunteer for the job! Thanks, Darcy.

about her new book. It was fun to sit with a table of RPCSers! Amy Brendler Cooper: I am back in Seattle now for good after way too many international and domestic moves.

Our girls are 13 (ugh), 11 and seven now and I work as the program director for the Texas and Pennsylvania Conferences for Women.

While living in China, I founded Red Twist, a cashmere sweater company which gives a portion of its proceeds to a foundation to send underprivileged girls in Asia to school. I really enjoy how Red Twist keeps me connected to China and I would love to work on it full time, if only it would pay the bills (sigh).

Robin Feldman Curtin: We have our three boys Jacob (14), Max (12), and Benjamin (8) who keep us busy laughing, running carpools and playing tennis. We recently purchased a home on Kiawah Island, SC where we visit once a month and uproot for the summers. I ran into Jody Kent Lemken there and it was so awesome to catch up! I trained and completed my first half marathon this past October and am now on my way to my second one in April 2014. Though tennis is my first love, running has become a very close second. My husband and I also will celebrate our 20th anniversary this year! I love reading everyone’s experiences and I hope this finds everybody well. If anyone in in our area please come for a visit! Sarah Foster Rhea: We live in Baltimore with our

Class of 1989 Emily Miller EmilyMillerDC@gmail.com Lydia Kang: I am living in Omaha, NE with my husband, Bernie, and our three kids Ben (12), Maia (10) and Phoebe (6). Professionally, I split my time between practicing internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and writing. I’m happy to announce that my debut young adult science fiction novel, Control, was published in December 2013 by Penguin! Laura Maslin Wille: I am enjoying life with my kids, Georgia (13) Davis (11) and Grant (9). We are about to embark on building a house in the neighborhood where we currently live. I hear it’s a lot of work but I am excited for the challenge! I loved hearing Emily Miller speak at Elkridge

Girls’ night in Baltimore with members of the Class of 1989 (bottom l. to r.): Wesley Naylor Finnerty, Peggy Webster Tomick, Annie Salisbury Staley, Jody Kent Lemken, Nancy Lord Lewin, Emily Miller, Laura Maslin Wille, Jenny Holmes Knoepfle and Sarah Foster Rhea

Jennie Kim Harman, 1989 with her husband and son Jack

three daughters Hannah (12), Ellie (11) and Amelia (9). Hannah, 2019 is enjoying her second year at RPCS. I am at the school a few times a week and often think of all the fun years we all had there together. I am coming up on my tenth year with Pfizer and still really enjoy what I do. So far the girls are still fairly nice to their parents. I hope that doesn’t change with the upcoming teenage years! Hard to believe this year will be our 25th Reunion, holy cow, time flies! Dina Dimitri Clark: We moved to London, Ontario in the spring of 2013 for my job transfer to McCormick Canada as the VP of marketing. My husband, James, my daughter, Olivia (5) and I are enjoying living in Canada so far. Nancy Lord Lewin: I now

live down the hill from RPCS and on the same block as my sister Casey Lord Briggs, 1991 (with other alums on the same block, too!).

Jack and I spent a lot of time marveling at our growing girls, Nina (10) and Violet (8). I’m still working in health care communications and marketing. I have elevated my love of yoga to the next level, and this May I will receive my certification as a therapeutic yoga teacher. Jack is making more of his beautiful pottery all the time; Nina loves to sing, make art, play the clarinet, read and play soccer; and Violet loves to sing, dance, be in nature and with animals, play with her friends and entertain us all. Marti Lewis Worms: I am a senior research attorney in the chambers of federal Judge Bernard Skomal. This summer, my family and I returned to the charming little town of Hanalei on the island of Kauai for a delightful vacation. When we’re not traveling, we love to see old friends, especially of the Baltimore variety, so please get in touch if you’re in the San Diego area! Peggy Webster Tomick: Paul and I are enjoying life with Ben (12), Kate (10) and Paige (6). Ben started Middle School at Boys Latin this year and has loved it! I am doing residential interior design work on my own and love the occasional RPCS girls’ nights! Christina Linsenmeyer: I’ve been living in Finland now for two years and starting my second postdoctoral position.

For 2014-15, I was awarded a grant by the Finnish Cultural Foundation for a postdoc at the University of the Arts, Sibelius Academy, to edit a book on historic musical instrument collectors. I am staying involved in the museum and music worlds, and loving Finnish culture and stunning Nordic nature (though still waiting to see the Northern Lights).

Author Emily Miller, 1989 at The Elkridge Club with (l. to r.) Sarah Foster Rhea, 1989, Jean Waller Brune, 1960, Jody Kent Lemken, 1989, Laura Maslin Wille, 1989, Jenny Homes Knoepfle, 1989 and Emily

This year’s Margareta A. Faissler Lecturer, Katherine Behrens Crosby, 1990 with her parents, Bruce and Polly Behrens, following the Cum Laude Induction and Ceremony

Eileen Finnerty McCoy: I am in living in Denver with Tate and our four boys; Tyler (15), Carson (13), Finn (11) and Cash (7).

We have had an incredible winter with a ton of snow and lots of skiing. I started an organization with a girlfriend out here called the MoB, Mothers of Boys. It is a membershipbased group focused on support and fun for women who head a household of three or more boys and no girls! We would love any visits! Jennie Kim Harman: I live with my husband, Jason, our 19 month old son, Jack, and our dog, Molly, in downtown Manhattan.

I was recently promoted to senior enforcement counsel with the market regulation department of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Jason and I spend most of our time chasing Jack around the city. Time flies when you are having fun! Emily Miller: I started a new job in April as chief investigative reporter for Fox 5 in DC. Since my first jobs out of college were at NBC and ABC News, it’s neat to have my career come full circle. Also this year, I wrote my first book and went on a book tour around the country. The book, Emily Gets Her Gun (Regnery, 2013), is about the politics of the current debate on gun control. As Laura sweetly noted, I spoke at Elkridge Club in January and was thrilled that my girls came out to support me - Sarah, Laura, Jody Kent Lemken, Jenny Homes Knoepfle, Anne Reilly Meredith as well as Louise Farley Reilly, 1960,

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Mrs. Brune, Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964, Director of Planned Giving and Nancy Mugele, Assistant Head for External Relations. I love seeing a lot of the 1989 girls at our monthly girls’ night, but I’m hoping to see all of you this fall for our big 25th Reunion this fall. For those of you who live elsewhere, start planning to come to Baltimore the weekend of October 9 to 12. I hope we get as great of a turnout as we did for the 20th Reunion, which was such a fun and special night.

Class of 1990 Pierse Byrnes Byrnepi@jhmi.edu

Members of the Class of 1990

Greetings Class of 1990! Hopefully everyone (minus the lucky ones who reside in the nice warmer climates) has de-thawed from this frigid winter and dried out from the lovely rain storms. First and foremost – many apologies for the lack of a submission from your Class Rep last year – somehow school, work and life just got ahead of me, but rest assured, I am back and ready to resume my quest to be the Cal Ripkin of the Class Note authors. (What is the longest streak of submission by the same author I wonder?) But I digress – on to news of the class which is what you really want to read. Serena Allison Ptak has been working at Bechtel as a mechanical engineer performing modifications to operating nuclear plants.

(This is why, Serena, you were always in the higher science and math classes and I was crying in the hall trying to decipher whatever homework Mr. Timm and Mr. Fagen had given me.) She has four children, the eldest of whom is graduating this year, starting Stevenson in the fall, the youngest is graduating from Calvert Lower School. (A busy, but fun end of the school year for you…I will be shopping for more Retinol age-defying products. Mandy Bissell is now teaching English at RPCS and co-directing the writing center. She has two children, Aidan (16) and Hope (3), and has recently undertaken the not-quite so enviable task of teaching Aidan to drive. Maureen Beyer Moser still resides in New York with her husband and four children, and has recently started teaching Latin to seventh graders at a local charter school. Amanda Baldwin Rutledge continues to successfully resist all of my efforts to bring her back to Baltimore.

She and her husband Scott reside in North Carolina with their six children (five boys and one girl). She is the assistant director of the preschool that her children attend, and ran the Disney Princess Half Marathon in Florida with

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Mary Renner-Beech this past February. (A far cry from the girls who walked the required mile run with me all four years of high school - much to the frustration Miss Bloodsworth and Miss Will - you rock ladies! Speaking of Mary…I was marginally successful in getting her back to Baltimore. I got her as far as NYC (it was all me, right Mare?!) She, her husband Curt and two daughters, Tate and Eden, are living in Brooklyn, NY; Mary is now working as the chief marketing officer for Kate Spade.

Jen Bogue Kenerson and her husband Jack continue to live in Connecticut where both are teaching at the Taft School. It appears that both Jen Bogue and Jen Bristow Hannah have passed on their athletic genes to their children; the Kenerson boys, Peter, Nicholas and Alexander are all involved in multiple sports activities, while Jen and her husband John, living outside of Philadelphia, are kept very busy with Grace, Avery and Alex. In between field hockey games and gymnastic events, Jen is also coaching a local girl’s lacrosse team. Betsy Kurtz Nunn is a certified dementia practioner with FutureCare, working at Hopkins (love running into you randomly in the elevators at the Big John, Bets!) Her daughter Kayla will finish fifth grade this year and son Nick will graduate from preschool (magna cum laude of course!) Katherine Behrens Crosby is here in Baltimore, working full time as an interior designer associate at Jenkins Baer Associates.

She has three children, the youngest of whom, Ellen, 2026, her one and only daughter, has joined the youngest ranks of Roland Parkers – having entered the Kindergarten class this year. Liz Dover Baker writes that life will enter a new level of craziness this summer when she assumes the position of the head of The Greenmount School, a small K-8 progressive

school in Remington. She will balance this with cheering on son Matthew (9) at his various sporting events and helping out husband Steve at his shop, WhollyTerra in Hampden.

Heather Harlan Warnack recently joined Maryvale as the director of communications and marketing and writes: With two boys, I am really enjoying my girl time. Lee (7) and Henry (5) will both attend Boys’ Latin in the fall. Liz Rinker Bissett is here in Baltimore, working part time at a social science research company.

She, her husband Wes and son Jake (7) enjoy attending lots of sporting events, from tball to O’s and Ravens games. I have abandoned all attempts to pry Kate Briscoe and Sue Forrester from the DC metro area. Kate is working as a lead lawyer for ICE, and Sue is working in outreach and advocacy issues for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She has also coached a local third and fourth grade girls’ lacrosse team (the Mustangs) into play-off contention.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Many thanks to all who answered my Facebook and texting pleas for information! I enjoyed hearing from everyone and look forward to seeing everyone at our next reunion! Happy summer!

Class of 1991 Lisa Caldroney Schline lschline@verizon.net It was another busy and exciting year for the women of the Class of 1991. For Patricia Burt, the past year was a pretty big one: I turned 40 (as many of us did!), lived (quite happily!) through my first year in a tenure-track position at Valparaiso University teaching music theory and ear training, and bought my first home (which has proven to be less fun than turning 40). I’m enjoying my new job and have landed in a department of really fine people - both students and colleagues. It feels a bit like a dream that I live only an hour away from

Sarah Mumford Peacock, 1991 snowshoeing with her family

Lisa Caldroney Schline, 1991 with her family in Nepal

Chicago, and I go in as often as I can to take advantage of the art scene there. This past Christmas I enjoyed a mini-reunion with Mikhel Kushner, Christina Culotta Celebi, and Rebecca Berger and we really could have been back in the cafeteria at RPCS if it weren’t for the wine. It seems no matter how far I am in time, place or life position from the days at RPCS, that inner high school girl is alive and well. Mikhel returned from three years living and working in the Commonwealth of Dominica at the end of last year. In January, she started a new job managing Title IX compliance for DeVry Education Group.

Title IX is concerned with sex and gender discrimination in education. Lucy Maulsby released her book Fascism, Architecture and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922–43.

Congratulations, Lucy! Life is great with Allison McClarry Toland’s clan. Her oldest son, Thurmond, is graduating from Pikesville Middle this June and is headed to Milford Mill Academy to study Automotive Technology: we are so proud of him as he can focus on what interests him most. Theodore and Tharon are enjoying third and first grades, respectively, and can hardly wait for their first season of football: say a prayer for me as my nerves will be shot watching them crash and bang into other kids! Sarah Mumford Peacock and her family are enjoying the last year that both of her boys are in elementary school together, where she also teaches part time. Middle school is on the horizon and it has brought back a lot of memories from Roland Park! In other moments, Sarah is spearheading a school garden, taking longer hikes and bike rides with her family and enjoying Colorado. Julie Rider Waldron is working with Baltimore County’s Infants and Toddlers Program providing early intervention for children with special needs. Her husband, Peter, is now working for Mattress Warehouse as the VP of Real Estate and Development. Her daughters, Millie and Lila (7 and 8), are at the School of the

Cathedral and Frankie, ten, is at Kennedy Krieger- Fairmount. All is crazy and hectic for Buffy Rubenstein Minkin’s family, but they are grateful that things are good. Abby, 2021 finishes her sixth year in RPCS’s Lower School in June and will be moving on to Middle School. She is currently performing in the fifth grade maypole dances, as many of us can remember. Zach is busy at Gilman in second grade and loves it there. Will and Buffy are working hard, taking their kids to their endless activities, plans and sports: somewhere in the midst of it all, we find the time to enjoy each other, relax and take a deep breath. Melissa Stark Lilley shares that she and her husband, Mike, and their four children, Mikey, Jackson, Clara and Clementine are doing well: I’m still working at the NFL network which is really an ideal situation because it’s basically September through February and then I have downtime and the summer with the kids.

We’re busy with the kids’ sports and activities, like everyone else. It’s been great seeing what they like and the differences in each of their personalities. The Schlines had another busy year with Hannah in fourth grade and Harrison in first grade. The highlight of our year was our travel to Nepal in December. We had the amazing opportunity to travel with close friends to their native country, where we were welcomed by their family. We explored the city of Kathmandu, trekked through the

Annapurna mountain range, rafted the Seti River and rode elephants through the jungle in Chitwan. It was a life-changing experience and we were so fortunate to immerse ourselves in a culture so different from our own. The kids amazed us with their resiliency and ability to adapt to so many new experiences, from the language and the food, to the lack of creature comforts we take for granted here at home.

We hope to be able to do more traveling as a family in the future. It is hard to believe our Class is approaching 23 years post-graduation.

Hopefully 2014 will bring more wonderful blessings to us all.

Class of 1993 20th Reunion Muffy Menton Fenwick fenwicks@gmail.com The Class of 1993 celebrated a great 20th Reunion this fall at the Mount Washington Tavern, thanks in large part to Betsey Swingle Hobelmann and Katy Spencer. Betsey’s involvement in RPCS far surpasses our reunion effort as she serves as President of the Alumnae Association, balancing this with her other commitments to the Baltimore

Class of 1993 holiday gathering with children Annie and Charlie (Muffy Menton Fenwick), Anna, Caroline and James (Betsey Swingle Hobelmann), Alex and CJ (Whitney Fenwick Wasson), Charley and Scarlett (Alex Meier Broenniman) and Vivie and Anna (Brady Beale Clark)

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Elizabeth Massing, 1993 and her daughter Jolie at the Red Hot Run

School for the Arts and Calvert. If that weren’t enough, Betsey is an integral part of the opening of a new charter school for high school boys in the city. Of course she does this with her usual enthusiasm and grace, all the while making time for her three equally busy kids, Anna (11), Caroline (9) and James (6). Katy continues to work in the Alumnae Office at RPCS, keeping in contact with so many of us and rallying a great crew for the reunion! It was great to catch up with so many of our classmates at the Tavern. We had a remarkable turnout, with so many of you traveling from far away to be here. The award goes to Elizabeth Gummerson, who arrived from Capetown fresh from her wedding and honeymoon. Her efforts were so appreciated!

Susie Michaelson Burbidge came from New Hampshire, toting along baby Ethan for one of his first trips to Baltimore. Life is good in NH. Ethan is keeping me really busy. He’ll be 18 months this May. I can’t believe how fast it is going. I am working part time for the Loon Preservation Committee as the outreach and volunteer coordinator. I had to give up the field work for a while until Ethan is older. He’s too young right now to travel around with me in my kayak! I hope you are doing well.

Can’t believe that Annie is ten already. Crazy.

I’ll let you know if I have any plans to come to B’more. Liz Fishman came from New York where she continues to shine as a teacher. Anne Roche also made the trip down from New York with her usual vibrance. Are you suffering from tinnitus or arthritis? Watch one of Anne Roche’s latest commercials peddling products for these and other issues of the middle-aged.

She continues to do acting work in NYC and writes financial stories for CBS news as a side gig. Megahn Hallahan LaNasa came from New Jersey with adorable Liam and Olivia whom I had the fun of visiting before their trip home. Brady Beale Clark, Paula PinnellSalles and Margie Fink Gunn all came down from Philadelphia. Brady continues to work as a veterinarian in Malvern as well as busy

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mom to Vivie and baby Anna. Brady and Vivie made a return visit this spring to the Grand National where I got to catch up with both of them. While she couldn’t make the reunion, Anne Zink Blachman was also at the Grand National for a spring visit with adorable twins, Jane and Natalie, and baby Alex. Margie continues to be active with the Moxie Moms of Philadelphia while Paula works at UPenn Hospital. While also not able to make the reunion, Alex Meier Broenniman came down from Brooklyn with adorable daughters, Charley and Scarlet, for a mini-reunion this winter. She loves being mom to the girls and paying frequent visits to Grammy Pam. From the west coast, Colleen McCormick came with her new husband. Colleen continues to practice as an ob-gyn in Portland, OR. Jessica Wilson flew in from San Francisco where she is enjoying baby Noam. Emily Rodgers was here from Chicago where she continues to work in finance. Whenever she visits, she is well loved and welcomed by her many nieces and nephews. This trip was no exception! Yolanda Green Durbin made the trip from Atlanta where she is a make-up specialist, brightening the reunion with her usual sparkle. Liz Tyler Majka also traveled from Massachusetts where she is mom to two busy daughters. It was also great to catch up with so many Baltimore girls!

Elizabeth Massing is the director of human resources for Agora Publishing, a company located in historic Mt. Vernon. Elizabeth is on the the Board of Governors for the Mt. Vernon Club and just joined the board of trustees for Children’s Scholarship Fund Baltimore. James Piper Bond, the president and CEO of Living Classrooms Foundation, nominated Elizabeth as a Rising Star for Living Classrooms. Although Elizabeth keeps herself very busy, she still very much enjoys working at Agora Publishing, where she has been for the past 15 years, and spending time with her four year old daughter, Jolie, who will be attending RPCS for Kindergarten next year. Carla Bailey Murphy is a partner at Ober Kaler law firm and mom to Teddy and Bailey. Ally Sibal Baker is busy with her three kids, Emma, Luke and Scott, her oldest who is now in high school. She continues to work for Hopkins. Elizabeth Jones is an attorney for a title company in Baltimore and brought along a special former Lower Schooler, Katie Visser, to enjoy the festivities. It was also great to catch up with Marey Herrfeldt and Melissa Ladenson DeLong. Melissa continues to work at Union Memorial and keep up with her precious daughters. Katie McCarthy Lehr is also a busy mom to three, while Melanie Diaz Dodson is keeping up with her two little boys and Natasha Markowski Makowka is balancing life with her three. Thanks to

Liam and Julien, sons of Anne-Claire Hervy, 1994 in New Zealand

Juliet Randall Fisher for all of her exciting news.

We are all so thrilled about her appointment as judge of the Baltimore County Orphan’s Court in April. Juliet will run to retain her seat while continuing her work as a mediator, arbitrator and family law attorney. Juliet manages all this while being mom to 13-year-old Milo and fourth grader Miranda. Whitney Fenwick Wasson continues to grow her photography business with commercial and real estate work. This challenging new pursuit is coupled by the addition of a new puppy who keeps both Whitney and her three boys, Colby (12), Alex (9) and CJ (7) entertained! Julie Hackett is home briefly after completing her work in Angola where she worked for UNICEF helping to distribute vaccines. Carroll Knott McGill is also a busy mom to Peter (11), Burk (9) and Ashby (7). She is also a highly revered Barre instructor at Lynne Bricks and continues to stay active in her real estate company. Carter Arnot Polakoff works tirelessly for the Baltimore School for the Arts, but constantly regales her job as the best and most rewarding. She also carves time for boys, Nate (9) and Samson (7) and beautifying the yard of her wonderful house in Stevenson. I cannot say enough how fun it was to catch up with so many of you this fall. I am so proud of our reunion efforts and can’t wait for the next! I continue to live in Cockeysville with my husband, two getting-too-old kids and a menagerie of ornery animals. I am in my second year of teaching pre-first at Bryn Mawr and have enjoyed the change and the hilarious daily exclamations of my six-year-old girls. Thank you again for all your news. Keep in touch!

Class of 1994 Rita Beyer Buettner rfbeyer@juno.com Wonder how New Zealand ice cream tastes?

You can check with Anne-Claire Hervy’s sons who have enjoyed ice cream on their bi-annual trips to New Zealand to visit their father’s family: We are still in DC (and enjoying it) many years after we thought we’d be long gone. Moving to New Zealand is still something we talk about, but not something likely to happen anytime soon. I’m still working in international development and enjoying traveling overseas from time to time with work which is always interesting. And I’m loving being a mom to Liam (4.5) and Julien (2.5) even though it’s utterly exhausting.

I continue to be amazed at just how energetic little boys are. Perhaps destined to write a book on ice cream around the world is Samantha Mason Jeffery, whose parents Bret and Virginia Hodges Jeffery welcomed her on June 27. The Jeffery family is also living in New Zealand, but only temporarily, since they were planning to sail to Fiji in May to begin their trip by boat. Virginia writes: We hope to take five years to do a circumnavigation. After Fiji, we will have a better idea if the boat, crew and finances can last five years. Samantha’s parents were wondering whether it would take their daughter longer to learn to walk living on a boat. But if you think traveling to Fiji is exciting, you should ask Emmy Williams what she’ll be doing this fall. Her mom, Peggy Boutilier Williams, reports that Emmy is super excited to be starting Kindergarten at her brothers’ school. Peggy writes: We continue to have fun in Charlottesville. I have become quite busy driving Tommy (9), Tyler (7), and Emmy (5) around to baseball, lacrosse, basketball - you name it. They love it all, so it is fun for Tim and me. I am keeping busy as the senior warden at St. Paul’s Ivy Episcopal Church and soon will be busy as the PTO vice

Mary Mazzulli, 2023, daughter of Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994 at the Little Bear Jamboree

Jen Nelson Descoteau, 1994 and her family

president. Busy memorizing the words to every song in Frozen this year are Mike, Caroline Smith Hickey, and their two daughters.

Caroline writes: Mike and the girls and I are still in DC. Bridget started Kindergarten this year, and Rory started preschool. I’ve signed on as a ghostwriter for a middle grade book series called SEW ZOEY (published under a pseudonym), and I have four books coming out in the next 12 months. Counting down the days for the next 12 months to pass so he will be old enough to play hockey is Sean Wyatt.

His mom, Kathleen Slingluff Wyatt, writes: The past year has been very busy with many changes. One of the biggest changes is we lost our lovely Sierra to cancer, but have added a very loving Murphy into our family. He was a rescue that Sean helped to pick. I also changed jobs this past year and am now working for NIH in cancer genomics. I’m loving the new job especially my much shorter commute. I have a lot more free time now to spend with the family. Sean has been taking skating lessons for over a year and keeps asking when he can start playing hockey. He has one more year to go to be age eligible for hockey, but he gets plenty of practice in our living room rink.

Adam is doing well and his Irish band The Shamrogues has been keeping him very busy.

Waiting to enjoy music at her son’s Easter program when she submitted her news was Shanita Leake Chase, who lives with her husband, Dennis, and their children, Sera (12), David (9) and Daniel (4) in Howard County.

Shanita is still working at Park West Health Systems in Baltimore. She writes: As a federally qualified health center, we are excited about ACA. Patients are happily coming in for health

care and the uninsured have hope now.

Wonderful despite the cost. Can’t believe 20 years already! Love seeing folks on Facebook, aging little and showing off their beautiful families. Shanita’s sisters, Candace Leake, 1999 and Amber Jones, 2009 will celebrate their 15th and 5th Reunions as we celebrate our 20th this fall. Preparing to celebrate not a reunion, but the first anniversary of their school’s founding is the Hackman family.

Kimberley Shuey Hackman opened the Hackman Academy in their home last fall, and she shares great pictures of her three children learning and having a fantastic time in their home school setting. Kim writes: We are loving home schooling and will be continuing it indefinitely. Continuing to take pictures indefinitely is Sara Speert Edelstein, who as a new mom - David Tomer turned one on April 9 - and as a professional photographer, stays busy with her camera. She writes: Life is good (and busy) in Atlanta. My son, David, just turned one and I love being a mom. It’s been the hardest and most rewarding year of my life. Just a month after David was born my photography business turned ten. Never really took the time to celebrate (I was a little busy), but I did do a little retrospective to myself. I went from single, naïve and inspired to married with a baby and with a whole new perspective of the parents and kids I photograph.” Photographing at least two children - her own - is Robin Hyde Woods, who got her NC broker/realtor license last fall and has been busy with her new profession.

She writes: I am also spending my spare time chairing committees for PTA and my neighborhood social committee as well as coleading my daughter’s Girl Scout Daisy troop.

My son is starting Kindergarten in the fall and my daughter will be going into second grade.

Time flies when you’re having fun! Robin and a few of Kate McAllister Walker’s college roommates had a lot of fun surprising Kate by showing up in Florence, SC to celebrate her birthday. Kate writes: Well, much has changed in my life this year. After 14 years of nursing in the NICU/PICU setting, I decided to take a leap of faith and follow a lifelong dream and I

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opened Mainstream Boutique in our small town of Florence, SC as part of a revitalization project. I opened the boutique in a historic building in December and have loved every second of the journey. I am so proud of the store. It is a fabulous and fun place to go to work every day. The boutique offers women’s clothing and accessories. We host events for charities and social gatherings and I offer personal stylist appointments as well. The job has been a blessing to my family in so many ways! My husband and I now both own our own businesses so we are very busy, but very thankful at the same time! My son, Hayden, is graduating from sixth grade this year and changing schools. He enjoys tennis and the usual technology that kiddos his age do, but most importantly he is my biggest fan and is so supportive. He comes to the store when needed, lends a hand with odd jobs and does his homework in my office. My parents now live in Naples, FL full time so I’m looking forward to heading to Baltimore for the reunion! Kate is almost certainly hoping to run into Sarah Berger, who lives in Baltimore with her husband, Ruediger, and their sons. Sarah writes: Lately I’ve been singing Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Brahms and Strauss with Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra and the Hafenmusik concert series at Christ Lutheran Church in Baltimore. My boys Jonathan, four, and Sebastian, 18 months, are doing great and enjoying not yet being allowed/forced to come sit through long concerts. Also probably not eager to sit through long concerts are Rosanna Best Corbin’s two children. Rosanna writes: Drew is entering first grade next year at Gilman and truly loves it. Colette is nearly two years old and will be enrolling at Hunts Preschool in the fall. We are still living in Owings Mills and I am in my sixth year at the family business, Best Battery. I am in touch with many of the girls and really enjoy getting together to catch up. It is a little harder for Rosanna to catch up with Hala Tomhe Alsadek since Hala has left Baltimore to return to California. Hala writes: Before we were in Santa Barbara County, but now we are in Irvine which is in Orange County. It’s considered part of southern California. We love the weather down here and spend a lot of time on the beach since it’s so close! Also enjoying California is Whitney Bedford, who lives in Los Angeles when she isn’t traveling the U.S. and abroad for gallery exhibits of her paintings. Teaching students who might like to be the next Whitney Bedford is Kim Ford, who teaches art classes in Atlanta, where she lives with her almost seven-year-old, Tanner. Kim writes: I am still teaching art in a few different locations and I love it. Primarily I teach to kids

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August and Caspar, sons of Vanessa Bliss, 1994

and adults at an arts center, but also teach toddlers and preschool-age kids one day a week. I offer several classes to homeschool students at a co-op and just recently added private drawing lessons on the weekend.

Tanner and I are constantly on the go, but I welcome the busy-ness and really love the variety and change of scenery. Tanner loves that she is old enough now to take summer art camp where I teach all of June and July, and I enjoy having her with me all day. She is finishing up first grade, loves reading, art, dance and horseback riding. If Tanner enjoys horses, she’d probably get along well with Seth and Catherine Passano McDonnell’s three daughters who have ponies at their house.

Catherine writes: Still involved with RPCS on a very regular basis with three girls in the Lower School (Emma, 2022 in fourth, Abby, 2024 in second and Cate, 2026 in Kindergarten) and as a member of the Board of Trustees.

When I’m not at RPCS or thinking about RPCS, I am a portfolio manager at Brown Advisory. And Seth, the girls and I still live in Greenspring Valley with a seven-month-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy named Sailor and a host of ponies and barn cats! Also surrounded by cats, dogs, and even chickens is Abbe Creaney, who has added fostering cats to her already full life as wife to Matt and mother of five beautiful children who love to take adventures to Loch Raven Reservoir. New to the chicken-raising experience is Suzanne Nice-Bauer, who writes: The Bauer’s have moved to northwest Jersey. We have settled in well. Kids are in fourth and first grade! Yikes!

We got chicks this year and have embarked in the adventure of raising backyard chickens.

They are funny little things. I am still in school nursing, subbing right now in our new school district and patiently waiting for someone to retire. Also involved in nursing is Audrey Lucas, who traveled from her home in Brooklyn, NY to Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia, for four weeks in the fall to

volunteer at a maternity hospital. Spending time in a different maternity hospital were Brian and Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, who welcomed their fifth child the afternoon of November 11. Carter Ellis Lyman was born at 9 lbs., 3 oz., and 20 inches long, and joined his big siblings Alex, Lindsay, Evan and Owen at their home in Sherwood Forest, MD. This year, Alex made his debut on the school TV news. Meanwhile, Melissa Cully Anderson writes: I am still at Greenwich Academy, teaching, coaching and working in the college office there. The best part about this year is that all three of my kids (Chase and Mairin, seven in May, and Liam, just two) are on campus with me! I often get to pop in and have lunch with my girls or catch Liam on his daily walk around campus. It’s a really special part of my job, which otherwise takes up most of my week! Chris has been busy too, now on his fifteenth year at the same small investment firm. We’re both up to our ears in work and kids - like so many of us, but all is well. Oh, and Chase seems to be a goose whisperer.

Where you won’t find much whispering is at Vanessa Bliss’s house where Vanessa and her husband and their son Caspar welcomed a baby boy, August. Vanessa writes: I had a baby last October so Caspar has a little bro to torment. August is a sweetie. We’re having lots of fun with the boys. Still living in Baltimore and still working for the union. Also in Baltimore is Jennifer Nelson Descoteau, who is in her third year working for The Baer School. She writes: It’s a joy to work there and help some very delicate, but inspirational children. They humble me daily. We still live in Towson. Our house is just perfect after our home fire in September 2010. Although traumatic and scary, it was a nice chance to redo the whole house. Our kids keep us busy!

Morgan will be a teen this summer...Gulp! She is an active swimmer and great middle schooler. Cole is ten and lives, eats and breathes lacrosse. We are planning a fun summer vacation for two weeks exploring the Grand Canyon, Hoover Damn, Sedona, Yellowstone and more - all in an RV! If the Descoteau family wants to add California to that list, they could go visit Greg and Rachel Kowal Pedersen. Rachel writes: I’m still at Athleta in marketing as art director. My kiddos Isabel and Eric are doing great. My daughter starts Kindergarten in the fall - not quite sure how that happened so fast! Erin Greenwood and I try to get together every other week, love watching her little Ian grow too! I get to spend the week with Megahn Hallahan LaNasa, 1993 in Flathead Lake, MT with her hubby and twins this summer so we are looking forward to that! Otherwise, happy it’s springtime in Sonoma! The Pedersen’s spent a

weekend with her sister, Sarah Kowal Wernikoff, 1989, and her three children this past winter. Eliza Smith Steinmeier is headed to California for their annual trip to visit family in Los Angeles, Malibu, Pismo Beach and Sunnyvale, but you’ll find Eliza in Baltimore most of the year. Eliza writes: Sam (almost seven) is finishing pre-first at Redeemer and Nicholas (almost three) is in the 2’s program there with his cousin Stuart Fenton (my sister, Christina Smith Fenton’s, 1999 oldest). The Fenton’s live down the street, which has been terrific fun for all of us! Sam is still an artist in every sense of the word, and Nicholas is heading towards a life in extreme sports, we think! I’m still working in the Baja Peninsula in Mexico coordinating joint projects for six water protection groups. I work from home and travel every quarter (I’m writing this from Tijuana, and yes, it’s safe!) which is wonderful because I can balance family and work much easier with this schedule. I took Sam on an eight-day work trip last December to Magdalena Bay and we had a ball! Matt is doing well. He bought his real estate business (CSG Partners) and is really enjoying work. He and I took a week-long sailing course on a 44-foot catamaran in January in the Caribbean and are now ASA certified multi-hull sailors that need more onthe-water practice. Anyone have a cat they want to share? Owners of a cat, but not one they are likely to want to share since he’s a beloved pet, are Rebecca Ward, her husband,

Whitney Bedford, 1994 and Patti Bedford Gaede, 1963

Giti Dhillon, 1994 and her family

Dave Greenburg, and their daughter, Lucy.

Rebecca writes: I’m still a pharmacist supporting the military medical mission, currently working at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while my husband is assigned to the same facility. Dave transitioned from being top of the pile as an attending internal medicine physician to bottom of the pile as a resident in ophthalmology, so we get to live the resident life again as we hurtle towards our 40s. One benefit to resident life was that Lucy and I lived with Dave in a small cabin in Maine this past summer while Dave attended a long course at Colby College. We hammock-hiked along the Appalachian Trail and the 100 Mile Wilderness. Lucy and our dog, Pepper, were amazing! I continue to be a reluctant runner. It’s totally peer pressure that motivates me. I have proudly run with the running group “Wear Blue: Run to Remember” since we were stationed in Washington State. I will be running in my blue shirt again this year at the Marine Corps Marathon. Thanks for Facebook, I ended up running as one of the legs for the Baltimore Marathon Relay with Lindsay Mortimer! I had a lunch, a walk, and hang out at the Ravens Super Bowl celebration last year with Sarah Dymphna Brumfield and her super gorgeous baby. I get to spend time with Ny Kenya-Chamberlain and her wonderfully adorable and smart daughter when Ny cuts my hair. I have been Latin dancing a little bit while we are stationed here, even helping to teach classes a little bit. Lucy is in first grade. She’s the only Greenburg in her Irish Dance class and she’s been learning to Irish fiddle. We danced in the DC Irish Parade with the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance (yup, I danced, too), and Lucy had the opportunity to fiddle with the Bog Band at a gig! I’ll be here for at least another year, and then Uncle Sam will assign us somewhere else.

Living not far from Rebecca is Jenner Manson, who lives near Dupont Circle in Washington, DC which Lisa Loban Coleman visited earlier this year to give a nutrition talk at the Library

of Congress. If you drive through Timonium or stop at the Giant Foods grocery store there, you may also have seen Lisa’s photo on a billboard and in the Giant itself. She’s the instore nutritionist there, and I managed to catch her in her office there one day. Lisa and her two sons live in Shrewsbury, PA. Possibly shopping at Lisa’s store is Kelly DonovanMazzulli, who lives in Timonium with her husband and two daughters, Mary, 2023 and Maggie, 2024 who are at RPCS. I happened to run into Kelly at a 7-11 the day of the RPCS Holiday Fair, and she was on her way to RPCS to help with the fair. Sadly, Kelly’s father passed away last August. Kelly, please know that you and your family have been in our thoughts and prayers. Gina Pizza lost her stepfather during this past year, as well, and Gina, you have our deepest sympathy. Gina writes: Livia, 2027 is finishing up in the preschool 4s at RPCS this year and will be wearing a uniform there as a Kindergartner next year. I’m still a staff attorney at Venable.

My grandmother remarried in 2012 and this past Thanksgiving her husband took 20 people from our family and 20 from his to Guanacaste Costa Rica, which was an amazing way to meet our new family. Unfortunately, my stepfather passed away a month later, but we were all really thankful to have had the opportunity to see him so happy on that trip.

Livia has a few years before she will be dancing around the maypole at RPCS, but Mallory Schofield Branson’s daughter, Addy, 2021 is one of the fifth graders doing it this spring.

Mallory’s son, Jack, is at St. Paul’s, and the Branson’s just added a black lab puppy named Macy to the family in April. Mallory writes: Kids are in heaven! Not quite in heaven, but happy to have started Kindergarten are Lesley Whitten Armstrong’s younger daughters.

Lesley writes: The Armstrong family is happily still living in Leesburg, VA, which is such a wonderful family-friendly town. Finley is now in second grade and the twins, Graysen and Courtlyn started Kindergarten in the fall at Evergreen Mill Elementary. The girls are all so excited to be riding the bus together each morning, and love being at same school. Finley is such a sweet big sis and walks her twin sisters - all holding hands - to their classroom each morning. I love being Room Mom and volunteering during the week at their school. I really enjoy all of the arts and crafts projects with the children, and just love seeing all the little smiles when I visit their school. Along with fall and spring dance classes, this winter Graysen and Courtlyn enjoyed Upward cheerleading and Finley played her first year of basketball with Daddy as the team coach!

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amazing memories. Also making amazing memories with her family is Sarah Macsherry Huculak, who is working at Patient First. Our children are in school together at St. Joseph’s School in Cockeysville, so our paths cross regularly. I enjoyed seeing Sarah’s son, Ian, dressed as one of the three kings, deliver the funniest line of the school Christmas program.

Not always laughing about her lack of sleep is Giti Dhillon, who writes: I am doing well but am always sleep deprived. We have one and two-year-old boys who keep us so busy! I am a practicing allergist at Union Memorial Hospital and Upper Chesapeake Ambulatory Care Center part-time three days each week. It is harder to stay at home with the kids than go to work! My husband is a pulmonologist/ intensivist at St. Joseph’s Medical Center and Franklin Square Hospital so he works long hours. He is a huge help when he is home, though. Also not sleeping much these days is Nicole Klimt, who writes: I’m in Rochester, NY right now working as an emergency medicine physician (mostly in the Peds ED) and feeling very busy with two and a half-yearold Aily and eight-month-old Oliver Miles and by that I mean totally overwhelmed, completely sleep deprived, borderline crazy, but somehow also happy! My husband is also an emergency medicine physician, so we are the family of bizarre schedules and interesting childcare issues but, we are enjoying the craziness of these two little barnacles. I am so excited to see everyone this fall (especially since I missed the 15 year!) and am currently trying to recruit Emily Brendler Shoff to come out from Telluride, CO! As for me, Rita Beyer Buettner, I am also eager to see Emily and everyone who makes it back for our 20th Reunion this fall. I am still doing marketing and communications work for Loyola University Maryland and blogging about adoption, Kindergarten homework and whatever else for The Catholic Review. Last summer John and I put our house in Catonsville on the market, and we were shocked when it sold right away. We moved in with my parents while we looked for a new house. People kept saying, “Your boys must be thrilled,” and Louis, six, and Michael, four, were happy to be at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. But no one could have been happier than their mother. I came home from work every night to a hot, homemade meal I hadn’t had to cook, and we had built-in babysitting. In fact, some days I wonder why we ever moved out. (Can you see my father’s frozen smile from there?) Still, we found a house in Timonium that’s perfect for us, with a great yard for the boys, and they are thrilled. Last summer we spent a week at the beach with my entire family, including my sisters, Maureen Beyer Moser, 1990, Shaileen

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Beyer, 1991 and Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001, and our boys have been asking to go back almost every day since then. Mark your calendars for October 11! I hope to see you there!

Class of 1995 Grace Kim gracejkim@gmail.com So this is the 19th year you have been reading reports about our class. Crazy! Well, it brought me much happiness to hear from you.

Hope you enjoy catching up on what everyone else is up to. See you next year at our 20th (Whaaaaat?) Chloe Rankin Seelbach: Scott and I are still living in Cleveland with our three children (ages 9, 6 and 3), in the throes of a busy spring and coming up on 14 years of marriage. We’re just wrapping up a year of construction and, as we swing into summer, I’m faced with the reality that, come fall, I will have all three children in school for the first time in almost ten years. I’ve decided project management and consulting (my old gigs) aren’t as family friendly as I’d like so am starting my own interior design company focusing on authentic renovations to pre-1950 homes - something we have a lot of here!

Wishing all of you the best in our own endeavors and health and happiness to your families! Molly Christhilf Finnegan: I am still living in DC with my husband, Chris, and have worked at Winebow, Inc for ten years and still love it. I just ran into Lauren Scott who moved near me in September and I see several RPCS girls, Kim Mitchell Wolff, Emmie Mink Frank, Anne Chemers Sperling, Eleanor Cordi, Lindsay Walker, Kellie MacDougall Lawler, Cameron Proctor Amirault and Elizabeth Weiss on a semi-annual basis and talk to many more like Chloe Rankin Seelbach who is wonderful. I am hoping I might be able to catch up with Genevieve Polk when we go to

Son of Becky Smoot Anderson, 1995 and daughters of Kim Nalda, 1995

Caroline Franano, 1995 and husband Michael at the Grande Mosque in the UAE

Spain in May. There are many connections and women who I admire from our class and I feel lucky that every time I see someone from RPCS, it reminds me of what a great group of intelligent and thoughtful women with whom I went to school. Lauren Scott: Life is great. We just moved last month after renovating a house in DC that we bought in July 2013, close to where Molly lives. I look forward to seeing Molly more often. Renovating.

What a process that is still going on. At least we have running water and electricity now. Shannon Doyle Pope: It’s a time for new beginnings!

Work continues to be crazy, and I’m not sure what the next step is, but I am trying to figure it out. My boyfriend, Kenton, proposed in December, and we are in the swing of wedding planning. I feel so blessed to have found another man that I want to spend my life with.

With time, I have found a balance between cherishing my past with Bowen and fully embracing my life with Kenton. Life is good!

Kim Owens Nalda is happily living in Newark, DE and practicing occupational medicine, but hopes to return to family medicine soon. She has two children, Abigail (6) and Rebecca (4) and has been married for 11 years. She and her husband are planning to travel to Italy in the fall. Genevieve Polk: Hello everyone! I am still happily living in Spain, but this year, I am in Sevilla. I came here to teach English in a public elementary school, like I did last year. In the fall, however, I heard about an amazing opportunity to work for the U.N.’s World Food Program as a consultant. I got the job and started working with them in February, (happily) quitting my teaching gig. I feel particularly happy as this job has provided me with the opportunity to return to my true calling: public health. Since my days in Europe might be limited, visitors are advised to come

early and often! Much love to all from the land of sangria y sol. Page Watts Rogers: We are so excited for the return of warm weather and cannot wait to get back on the beach and in the ocean. My daughter, Wylie, is two and is obsessed with baby dolls and skateboarding.

My son, Chappy, is four and is about to finish pre-K at Ocean City Elementary School. He is into ninja turtles and seems to be more comfortable in the ocean than on land, so we are eagerly waiting for the water temperature to rise. I have almost completed my Master’s in elementary education from Wilmington University. I have three classes and my student teaching left. I started doing yoga around Christmas and am now addicted. Now that the kids are a little older, I can finally try to get back into shape and I have quickly realized it will not be through running and weight lifting, ugh! So, I love yoga! I just started back at Seacrets and will be behind the bar serving drinks all summer. So, if anyone is in town, you know where to find me. Jennifer Abraham Strauss: It’s been a great year. Last fall, I turned in my pipettes and lab coat and said goodbye to the lab. I’m a project manager for Johnson Matthey Pharma Services. I love it.

Dana is heading to Kindergarten in the fall and Jon and I are headed to Brazil in June for the World Cup. Eleanor Cordi: I am still living in Boulder, CO and still love my job as a veterinary technician. I am going to New York at the start of May and stay with Anne Chemers Sperling in Brooklyn for five days.

Megan Smith: In March, my family and I moved from Iowa to Maryland. I am now a staff neuropsychologist at the VA Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore and my husband is working for an education research non-profit in DC. In May, our second child is due to arrive. After 19 years of not living in Baltimore, it’s funny for me to be back in some ways, but we’re already enjoying the warmer weather and proximity to family.

Anne Chemers Sperling: All is well in Brooklyn! Still at the NYC Health Department as the deputy director for intergovernmental affairs. Work is great if a little too busy. Max and Teddy just hit the 3.5 mark and are a lot of fun. City life continues to suit us and I’m starting to think we may be those people who never leave NYC! I am very excited for some R&R in Florida this June with my RPCS girls - Kim, Kellie, Eleanor, Cameron, Lindsay and Emmie - stay tuned for incriminating photos in next year’s Connections! Brooke Bulkeley Peterson: I actually have moved to Alabama where my husband, Erik, got a job as a History professor.

I am teaching at an independent school, Tuscaloosa Academy. My kids, Greta (10) and Will (7), are learning to refer to adults as “ma’am” and “sir.” Michelle Willats Wetzel:

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I had such a great time catching up with our classmates over Thanksgiving! After that, Kip and I took the kids on our first family trip to Disney World over Christmas, and we loved it!

Our kids are growing up quickly- Maisie is finishing up Kindergarten, Kate is going next year, Evan just turned two, and he’s trying to keep up with his sisters. I am enjoying my job as a high school librarian in Radnor, PA. It entails a lot of technology and conducting research projects with many different classes.

Kellie MacDougall Lawler: Nothing new to report from Alabama. Jeff is in his second year in practice as an orthopedic surgeon, and I’m still trying to figure out/survive life as a stay at home mom. Marcus is five and a half years old and in Kindergarten and Blakely is four years old and in preschool. They keep me running around with tball, gymnastics, basketball, soccer, etc. I was blissfully unaware a couple years ago that at this age children want to participate in so many sports! Usually, I can be seen at one of the above activities pushing around their little sister, Pierce (17 months) in her stroller as she screams for her freedom.

Hope all is well with the rest of the class!

Caroline Horst Franano: Well 2013 brought lots of changes. Both Michael and I were offered and accepted positions with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE. Accepting these positions meant relocating to Abu Dhabi which we did in October of this past year. Settling into our new life in the Middle East comes with its own unique challenges, but we are getting the hang of it

and truly loving our work and the new experiences it brings. We moved into our new house in November and imported our dog, Dino, in late December. We are making new friends and exploring our new country bit by bit. The travel has been great, but we never get to spend a lot of time in any given place, so far I have been to Delhi three times, Mumbai two times, Zurich, London and Rome. We are looking forward to a little vacation in May to the Seychelles. Overall we love expat living.

Kristen Cunningham Jones: I am still living in southern Florida working as clinical faculty at a local university. On September 30th, we welcomed Jake Richard Jones into our family.

He is the sweetest little baby boy who loves to smile, to move to music, and to suck on his toes. His big sister, Lucy the Lab, is so wonderful with him. Life is definitely more fun with a six-month-old! Aminah Wells: I’m still in Baltimore and now working as the pediatric hospice support specialist for Gilchrist Hospice Care. I also started my own private counseling practice in 2012, specializing in grief counseling and anxiety/depression issues in teens and young adults. It’s going well. My office is in Roland Park so RPCS is always in my thoughts. Cameron Proctor Amirault: I’m doing well. I started back at work in a general pediatrician’s office part-time and am really enjoying working again. Amelia is almost five and Eloise turns two on Easter. They are so much fun and keep me on my toes! Kristen Creticos: I’m still teaching fifth grade at Seven Locks Elementary School (a Montgomery

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Connor and Abby, children of Emmie Mink Frank, 1995

County Public School) in Bethesda, MD. I continue to serve on the Leadership Team as fifth grade team leader, just as I have for the past three years, but there are a couple of exciting changes this year. I was elected to be the Faculty Representative at my school (which means I serve as a liaison between the administration and the faculty) and was also selected to be a teacher mentor. I also taught a couple of professional development courses for the county last spring and summer.

Caroline Donahue is still living in Los Angeles in Silverlake, where she has been for five years now. She works for Gooding & Company, an auction house specializing in collector cars.

Despite being the slowest runner in her RPCS class, she has taken it up seriously and plans to run her first half marathon in May in Santa Barbara. She is still single, and would love to hear about any eligible bachelors aged 30-48 in the Los Angeles area. Nora Malaisrie is still in Maryland and is an ENT surgeon. She is still doing synchronized swimming with her husband, Sean, doing routines set to mostly classical music, but sometimes Celine Dion.

Becky Smoot Anderson: There is a lot going on in our house right now. We are moving to a new house in the next month or so. Looking forward to Matthew turning two in June and also we are expecting a little girl in September.

I love living close to Kim Nalda. It’s been fun having our kids grow up together. [I included a picture of all of them at our last get together.]

Becky continues her practice as a veterinarian in Joppa, MD. Sureena Nair: Just had a baby boy in November named Brais (pronounced Bryce). Micah Mitchell Hines is extremely excited because she and her husband, Daron, are expecting her first baby, a girl, on May 30th! She is still living in Minnesota and enjoys her job as the general counsel for the Minnesota

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governor. Elizabeth Weiss: I am doing really well. Living in Hampden and working as an architect. Looking forward to warmer weather ahead for sailing and summer fun. Tori Fingles: I’m still living in Baltimore and working for Under Armour at their corporate offices. Cary Zink Kassouf: I continue to enjoy my work as a neuroscientist at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development at Johns Hopkins Medicine. My husband, Mark, and I spend most of our free time chasing around our almost two year-old, red-headed son, Zachary.

He is talking more and more, and his interactions with the world are always amusing! Zach attends Little Bear Child Care at RPCS, which he adores, and it’s fun for me to be part of the RPCS community again!

Virginia Plitt Teti: We are happy; recently moved to northern California this past year for a fellowship at Stanford in facial plastics reconstructive surgery. Fellowship is great best part has been mission trip this past winter to Cambodia. Hubby and kids are awesome.

James (5) and Joshie (3) are loving the weather and enjoy playing soccer and hiking with daddy. We will likely be moving back east next year, awaiting military orders! Vanda Lerdboon works for the International Refugee Committee in Maryland. She lives in her condo in Baltimore. Lindsay Walker: Still working at Silberstein Insurance Group and living in Mount Vernon. Karel Valentine: Last December, I moved from Philadelphia to San Diego! I accepted a job with Genentech, which is part of Roche. I’m still in “Big Pharma,” but it’s refreshing to be at a smaller site than when I was with Merck. I miss living in the city, but I don’t regret leaving before the snow started in the Mid-Atlantic. The weather out here is fantastic, with the exception of some occasional morning fog. I live less than a mile from the beach, so I’m looking forward to a warm, sunny summer so I can try paddle boarding. Right now, the water is still a bit cold for me. Elizabeth Rodgers Hawtin: We had our fourth child on February 16th this year. A little girl named Poppy. She joins big brother, Oscar (almost 5), Eloise (3), and Charlotte who just turned two. Life is busy!

We are still in London, but come back every summer to Bridgehampton. Really hope you are all well! Emmie Mink Frank: Connor is in first grade at Cathedral School (with Jack Bowman, son of Ridgely Bennett Bowman) and loves sports. He played soccer, basketball, baseball and lacrosse this year. Abby is two.

She is a very active little girl and so sweet. I have a new niece (and another niece or nephew on the way). My brother is married to Nicole Rock Mink, 1998 and they have an adorable little girl named Lizzy. Grace Kim: I am still in North Carolina, working at Duke as a

radiation oncologist seeing patients and am starting up a research project. Just got a small house and am becoming less ignorant about home care - big lesson this month has been not to let the grass grow too long. Still miss Baltimore dearly. Kimberly Mitchell Wolff: As you know, my father passed away in October 2013 and that has left a big hole in our family because we were very close. Because his illness was long-fought, we had time to prepare and managed to celebrate his life in a way that he would have absolutely loved. The year of firsts without him are hard for me, but especially my mom. On the work front, I celebrated my 15th anniversary with my company though we now go by the name Mood Media. This year my role expanded when I became VP of marketing and business operations. I travel almost weekly to Charlotte, NC or Austin, TX. We have managed to do some fun things with the kids like skiing at Wisp over Presidents’ Day Weekend and then spring break in Florida. I’ve caught up with some classmates, with you guys that time at Johnny’s, and also I see Emmie and Lindsay regularly and Cameron, Anne, Eleanor, Kellie and Molly whenever they come back to Baltimore. Did you hear Linda Rothemund Wells welcomed a baby girl, Taylor? We’re moving from Roland Park out to Lutherville by September. We are renovating my parents’ home to accommodate our active family of five and my mom is moving into an apartment on the property. So next year’s big 20th Reunion will be at a new place (assuming I host it which I am happy to do!). I’ve missed my time with the RPCS Alumnae Board and feel slightly less connected so I can’t wait to read what everyone has been up to. I love reading about all the impressive professions and activities everyone in our class does.

Thank you Kim for offering your place for our reunion next year. We remember your father fondly from our RPCS days. I saw the wonderful tribute about him in the Sun.

Class of 1996 Meredith Hartman Shanley meredith.shanley@gmail.com Hello everyone! It’s been a busy year for a lot of you, so let’s get right to it. Allison Medina writes: I am living in Falls Church, VA with my sister Jennifer. I still am a social worker and work at The Women’s Center a non-profit in Vienna, VA. I am doing domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy and therapy. I am going on 28 years being vegetarian and 25 being vegan (geez - we are getting old!) so I

The wedding of Meredith Shuey Etherington, 1996 with her sister Kim Shuey Hackman, 1994

am definitely still the class granola. Between boot camp, yoga, work, vegetarian meet-ups and visiting my parents in Baltimore, I am keeping very busy! Hope everyone is doing well! Hedy Born Koczwara writes from San Fran: We are moving next weekend, three blocks south, but up a hill so steep that there are stairs built into the sidewalk. When Marek (18 months) toddles down the hill, I’m worried he’s going to topple forward and fall head over heels. Hed, I’m sure big brother Luca will help him out! Rachel Pickworth also writes in from San Fran: My updates are getting married and heading to Bali and Sydney for the honeymoon. I live in San Francisco and work as an international HR consultant for The Clorox Company. There are a lot of us in San Fran, it would seem. Meredith Shuey Etherington writes: 2013 was a pretty big year in terms of all the wonderful things that we were able to squeeze into a 12 month period.

A month or so after getting engaged at the beginning of last year, Simon and I decided to move to San Francisco! The next few months were a whirlwind of finding new jobs, quitting our old ones, selling a house, shipping our stuff across the country, planning a wedding, getting married (!) and finally moving and settling into our new lives in California. We were fortunate to have a break in between jobs, and spent a little over a month on Martha’s Vineyard before our wedding. We were married in the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown in June and couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day. After the wedding, we

stayed for a few more days on the Vineyard, and then flew out to San Francisco, and spent some time exploring the area before starting our new jobs. So many life changes in the past year, but they all have been wonderful. We bought our house in Marin last fall (which is just over the Golden Gate Bridge) and I still can’t get over how amazing it is out here. Blue skies and sun most days, and a yard filled with fruit trees (apples, figs, peaches, plums, lemons, limes and oranges!) Pretty magical.

Also writing in from California is Annie Pfaff MacFadyen, who welcomed her second child, a daughter, in March. New news is Zoe! Job is still great, Tahoe is still great. Loving raising a family here, but of course missing my east coast peeps regularly... always a good fix to spend time with Hedy and Abby Bowers Gerken, 1997. Heading back east is Melanie Donnelly O’Hare, who left San Fran last year after getting married and moved to her husband’s hometown of Boston. It’s been another eventful year for them: Melanie and her husband Matty left city life for an old farmhouse in the burbs shortly before the birth of their first child. Their daughter Kit was born February 2, 2014. Melanie is working at Milton Academy in the office of the general counsel. Ellen Ginsberg Simon writes from Baltimore: We welcomed our newest family member, Rachel Elizabeth, on March 11, 2014. She and big brother Sammy are already best pals and keeping us on our toes. Beth Robinson deVilliers also welcomed a new member into her family: David was born in January in the same week as Cali and Campbell. He is very sweet and loved by his two older sisters. Dave is finishing his MBA this December. Really looking forward to that. My whole family is spending a week in Charleston this summer. Life is definitely busy

Future Oriole George Lewis Shaffer, son of Hillary Zouck Shaffer, 1997

with three, but I’m really enjoying staying at home and being a mom. As for me, Meredith Hartman Shanley, I’m still in Huntington on Long Island, where my husband grew up. He works in finance in NYC and I stay home with our two boys. We welcomed Ryan Matthew on 2/7/14 (my math geek hubby was really happy about that date), and he seems to like us so far! Lots of smiles, coos and sweetness.

Big brother Luke goes from showing intense interest to ignoring him completely, which is exactly what I expected from a two year old!

My parents rented an apartment in our town and have been spending lots of time here, which has been a big help, and wonderful for the boys to see so much of their Gram and Bagoo (what can I say, Luke named him). I write freelance for a publication called Edible Long Island, which has been a lot of fun. Life is good! Bring on summer! Thanks to all who contributed. Big congrats on all the new babies and new hubbies. Here’s to the Class of 1996 and our expanding family! Cheers!

Class of 1997 Hillary Zouck Shaffer hazshaffer@gmail.com

Rianna Matthews-Brown, 1997 and her wife Kibibi

Jenn Lears Lohse states: Jay and I are still happily in Towson with our three girls, Alex (7), Katherine (5) and Ella (3). I am running a small swimming lesson program for children with autism, which has been a fun and rewarding adventure. Laurie Zink Haller reports: After six years living abroad in London, my husband and I relocated back to Los Angeles, where we are raising our

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Julia Garret Randolph, 1997 with her children at the Red Hot Run

three-year-old son, David. Baby number two is expected to arrive June 23, 2014. Nikki Sheridan Alworth has had an exciting past few months: I graduated residency, started a new job as an ER physician, moved to a new house and welcomed Alworth baby number three. Owen was born February 21, joining my daughter, Finley (5), and my son, Jack (3).

One big, happy family! While it’s been busy and chaotic at times, it’s been a blast so far!

Sophie Gerard got married in October which was a great reason to gather many of her RPCS friends. She felt so fortunate to have such a good friends there to celebrate with her and her husband. Some women traveled across the country and another, Carey Baugher

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Piraino, made an appearance despite having a baby just a few days prior. Thank you all for making it so special! Catherine Ford Robbins writes: The past year has been wonderful. We added a beautiful little girl to our family, Eliza Lauren Robbins, on May 15, 2013. I can’t believe she will be turning one! Big brother Mason is completely smitten. Lindsay Maizel Castillo shares: We are still living in northern Virginia. I really don’t have anything to report.

Just add me to the group that can’t wait for the pool to open and play with the kids!

Rianna Brown says: I am happy to say that I am back, living and working in Baltimore!

After five years together, my wife Kibibi and I finally tied the knot last summer. It means so much to be able to marry in the state that we call home. Emily Lough Johnson’s past year has been pretty eventful for her family. She shares: Last summer, we moved to northern New Jersey to a wonderful home on a river in Boonton Township. My two girls, Austin (3) and Sadie (2), are fascinated with all the wildlife and experiencing the changing seasons in our first year in the new house. Very sadly we lost our seven-year-old lab Jake suddenly last April which was heartbreaking, but time has helped and healed. On a positive note, a huge plus is that Ali Bourne La Fiura and her beautiful family live one mile down the road from us! My husband Christopher is thrilled to have landed next to his hometown of Mountain Lakes where his parents still live and even more so with all the amazing food in NJ. I left Under Armour in November after almost eight years, and following a quick six month stint at TAG Heuer, I’m now the Director of Brand Marketing at Equinox in NYC. All is good! Tammy Passano Wiggs reports: Life has been crazy getting ready for our summer move to London. Justin and I will be working from our respective London offices from May through July and bringing the girls (Courtney, 3½ and Ellie, 1½) with us! Logistically it is crazy, but we are looking forward to sightseeing, traveling, and meeting up with fellow Roland Parkers when we are not at work. We are happy to report that Lindsay Robin Saffer and her husband Chris Saffer are thrilled to announce the arrival of their baby daughter, Gretchen Katherine Saffer on May 14th! I, Hillary Zouck Shaffer am excited to begin a doctoral program this fall, focused on Instructional Leadership for Changing Populations. I am finishing up my fifth year teaching in Baltimore County Public Schools this June. I look forward to spending the summer busily chasing after my son George, who is three!

Class of 1998 15th Reunion Valene Whittaker valenewhittaker@gmail.com Kate Jordan kateejordan@gmail.com Paige Kimos Odabashian paige.odabashian@gmail.com Laura McKenna Burdt has some big news to share. She writes that she and her family returned recently from the first of their three trips to Latvia for the adoption of its newest member, their 12-year-old son, Seins! Laura shares that she and her family learned “quite a few things about ourselves throughout this journey of a lifetime,” and she offers a very special “thank you!” to fellow classmates Monica Butler Mitchell, Katie Perry Trumbauer and Tina Reed Milnes for their love, support and donations, which helped to make their travels possible. Carol Dixon Croxton and her husband Brandon welcomed their son, Ryan, only a few weeks after we all gathered for our 15th Reunion! Carol writers that Ryan is “such a joy, bringing happiness each day.” Carol also expressed her thanks for the love and support of the Class of 1998 and the RPCS community as she mourns the loss of her mother, who passed in January. Carol shares: I miss her each day, but I am happy that she got to meet her grandson and I know she watches us always. Natalie Ciotola Dabrowski continues to work as an operations manager at the University of Baltimore.

She and her husband Ben welcomed their third little girl, Isabelle (Belle), in December.

Stefanie Warns, 1998 celebrates her marriage to Evan Carter in NYC

Celebrating the Baptism of Davis Eachus with Dulaney Wible Farkas, 1998, Holden Farkas, Caroline Windfelder Eachus, 1998, Davis and Virginia Eachus, and Anna Hitchner, 1998

Natalie shares that thanks to Frozen, their lives have been and will continue to be filled with everything princess! Natalie also writes that she went to Natalie Rothemund Dowgiewicz’s house for an Easter egg hunt, and her husband dressed up like the Easter bunny. It’s always nice to see our classmates and their children come together for special occasions! Such was the case for Caroline Windfelder Eachus, who welcomed a son, Davis William, in January 2014. Davis is loved by his parents and by big sister Virginia.

Recently the family traveled back to Baltimore from Minneapolis for his baptism. Celebrating with Caroline and her family were Dulaney Wible Farkas and Anna Hitchner. Dulaney, who is approaching three years as director of marketing for a local accounting firm, has been enjoying life with her husband Ben and their toddler, Holden, who is always on the go.

Meghan Ferguson Feld shares: 2014 has been an amazing year so far as my husband and I welcomed a beautiful and healthy baby boy into our family in October 2013. Meghan and her family are loving Boston, and she continues to enjoy working for Coty. Lauren Miller Hauk has also been adjusting to life with baby, and “discovering what a kid-friendly city Manhattan is (who knew!)” Lauren, whose son Judson turns one in May, also shares that her family is traveling as much as possible, and will be planning their first vacation to France.

Life is good for Beth Schaub Huwe, who writes: I’ve been enjoying finally living in only one state (Maryland) with my husband and working on projects for my old farm house.

Congratulations are also in order for Shelley Fulton-Powell, who will be graduating from

the Towson University Reading Program with her master’s as a reading specialist on May 22!

Shelley is also celebrating her seventh year of teaching in Baltimore City, and keeping busy with sons Naeem, who is now six and in Kindergarten, and Noah, who is 12 and in the seventh grade. Congratulations to Aja Dorsey Jackson, who published her first book, Making Love in the Microwave, in October! Aja and her husband Steve also welcomed a son, Wyatt, on May 8, 2014. Aja and her family will be keeping very busy, as Kya, 2018 will enter Upper School at RPCS in the fall, and Logan will begin Kindergarten. Veronica Griffith Kirkland and her husband, Jeremy, still live in Richmond, VA. Veronica shares that she is enjoying her time at home with their three children, ages five, thee and one. Yvonne Crispino Klinger, mother to three little ones who are the same ages, writes: I am still living in Bethesda with my husband Ben, and children Adam (5), Rachel (3), and Lauren (1). The kids keep me very busy and we are getting ready to send Adam to Kindergarten in the fall. Further

Daughters of Natalie Ciotola Dabrowski, 1998, Gracie, Belle and Chloe

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Brian and Lauren Miller Hauk, 1998 with son Judson

north in Pennsylvania, Kate Cooper Kolbe shares that she is enjoying life as a mom of a two-year-old and a five-year-old daughter. She recently started a company, Reed Silk Studio, hand-painting playsilks for children, “a craft in which I first dabbled at a tri-school arts day in Upper School and have continued to master over the last (could it be?) sixteen years.”

Laura Ryan Lubin shares: My husband Eri and I welcomed a baby girl on March 25th. Her name is Lillian Maria del Carmen, but we just call her Lily. I will finish my master’s in July for TESOL (Teaching English to Speaker’s of Other Languages) and am hoping to find a new job over the summer. I, Valene Whittaker, moved from sunny California to Massachusetts in September to take a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Interprofessional Mental Health at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA (20 miles north of Boston). I am happy to return to working with Veterans this year and have found it to be both challenging and incredibly rewarding. Being back on the east coast has also given me the chance to see old friends and family more frequently, and I am thankful that my transition to Massachusetts was helped by a few lunches with some familiar faces from the Class of 1998: Liz Serotte, Tifany Cline Menasha, Meghan Ferguson Feld and Anna Hitchner. I enjoyed seeing everyone at Reunion in October, and look forward to gathering again soon! If you haven’t been following Kelly Phelan’s blog (drphelanipresume.blogspot.com), I would highly encourage you to do so. I read it religiously and have enjoyed every single post.

Our class world traveler writes to us this year from the Democratic Republic of Congo: I have been living in Africa for the past year because I am teaching and conducting research at the University of Botswana as a Fulbright Scholar. In addition to being in Botswana full time, I’ve taken advantage of travelling around more than a dozen African countries including Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Congo has

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definitely been the most interesting- and challenging. Leah Heumann Reed recently relocated to Charleston, WV. Leah writes: It has been an adjustment and change of pace, but I am having fun fixing up our new home. Liz Serotte reports in from Boston where her son Elliot is about to start kindergarten in the fall. They have a two week trip planned to Spain and Austria this summer.

Liz writes: Never too young for your first trip backpacking across Europe right? Erin Shaughnessy continues to try to keep up with her three year old daughter, Avery. Erin says “life is good!” After overcoming some health issues this year, Kristin Ricketts Sparkman has continued her work as the Baltimore representative for Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue. Kristin was the event coordinator for Spring DoxieFest held at the Baltimore Humane Society which welcomed over 200 people and 300 pets. Ava Mandel, 2016 also came out to volunteer. Kristin is heading back to school in May to pursue a career in healthcare. Jessica Strauss continues to live in downtown Washington, DC and manage DISH Network’s federal government relations.

She continues to enjoy traveling. Most recently, Jessica took trips to Croatia/Montenegro and Panama. I, Kate Jordan, celebrated my one year anniversary as Vice President at Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate. In April 2013, I joined several seasoned industry veterans to form the 48th Lee & Associates office. Thirty years strong, Lee & Associates is the nation’s largest broker owned commercial real estate firm. We have had tremendous success in our first year and look forward to continuing to expand our thriving office. My years at RPCS helped shape me into a woman who had the self-confidence to take this huge risk and come out on top! For that, I am forever thankful! What a year it has been for Zaineb Makhzoumi! Last July, she started her new position as dermatologist, cosmetic surgeon and associate professor for the University of Maryland. Zaineb specializes in MOHS surgery for skin cancer, but handles all types of skin and dermatological cases for her growing number of patients, including several RPCS alumnae. In December, Zaineb married her childhood friend, Ayman, and celebrated with a lavish reception at the Four Seasons.

They honeymooned in Mexico and then moved into their first home together in the Baltimore ‘burbs. Laura Cohen Marsh writes: I’m still living in Greensboro, NC with my husband, Nate and on November 23, 2013 I gave birth to our son, Benjamin. Being a mom really has been the best thing in the world. It’s been helping ease the pain of the passing of my mother on March 21. Laura continues to work as a family law paralegal for Legal Aid and

enjoys spending time with her boys. Laura, we are saddened to hear of the sudden passing of your mom. Sending our thoughts to you and your family during this difficult time. Jennifer Medina continues to work in her role as program manager for a nonprofit that promotes asset-building strategies and policies for low-income families. She joined a triathlon team in 2013, which has been an amazing experience. In June, Jen will compete in a relay triathlon with her sister, Allison Medina, 1996 and their dad! Next up for Jen is a half ironman distance in July! Tifany Cline Menasha writes in that life is good in Massachusetts! She continues to work part time and stay home with her daughters Ava, who will be six, and Kayla, who will be three this summer. Ava is taking violin lessons, which has been really exciting for Tifany, who dusted off her violin so they can practice together! Kayla and Tifany take Mommy & Me ballet, which is very fun.

Tifany hopes to visit Baltimore this summer and catch up with her RPCS friends. If there is a motto to describe Sabrina Johnson Turner it would be “Work hard, Play hard” (Or “Can’t stop, won’t stop,” depending on which DJ is playing!) Though Sabrina lives in Baltimore, she wrote in while vacationing in Honduras.

As she continues to work as a trial attorney for Allstate Insurance, she had fun sitting alongside classmates Grace Applefeld Cleveland and Lizzie Getman during the RPCS Career Day panel on Alumnae Weekend 2013. Sabrina will also be First VP for the RPCS Alumnae Board starting in the fall. Her endless energy keeps her busy outside of work with fitness, fun and travel. Sabrina just completed her tenth year of teaching aerobics, and is in the process of creating and starring in a workout video for kids (with two of her friends). The developers are animating Sabrina and turning her movements into a cartoon character, and then she will be in the video with the character. She, too, escaped the Baltimore winter that wouldn’t end. Aside from Honduras, Sabrina traveled to St. Maarten in December, and is headed to Puerto Rico, Honduras (again) and possibly Greece later this year. Amanda Wolff Torsani is pushing her personal limits in weekly Bodypump workouts, and headed out of Baltimore to enjoy not one, but two relaxing getaways in Key West in the past six months.

Life is good! Nakiya Traynham, also in Baltimore, went on vacation to the Caribbean in December and is looking forward to planning her next trip. She continues to work for CareFirst in provider relations and is making plans to buy a house next year. In November, Lauren Waesche jetted out of BWI for an adventure in Iceland. Reminiscing on ice climbing, snorkeling in 32 degree glacier water, viewing the Northern Lights,

Greg Koffel, Reagan Raneri Koffel, 1997, Sutton Nicolini, 2027, Dom Nicolini, Campbell Nicolini and Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998 at the Red Hot Run

experiencing the culture and relaxing in the Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa, Lauren writes: It was an amazing trip and I’m looking forward to my next adventure! Stefanie Warns is working in fixed income trading for Stifel in downtown Baltimore. However, she reports: Evan and I are looking for our first viable and permanent escape route out of Baltimore... stay tuned for updates. Writing in from across the Bay Bridge, Katie Perry Trumbauer is enjoying life in Chestertown, MD with her kiddos and husband: I’m a stay at home mom and love it, although it’s so much more exhausting than I would have ever guessed!

My youngest just turned two and will be going to school for a few days a week next year, and I’m looking forward to some quiet time. It will be nice to go to the grocery store without someone grabbing things off the shelves as we walk by! We bought a new house this past October and are now living on a couple of acres along the water. I’m trying to convince my husband to get chickens. We love the new place though, and can’t wait to get the boat in the water this summer. Lauren Battle Wills reports: I am living in the land of Southern Charm, where I am working as a senior scientist for a small biotech company and teaching biology as an adjunct at the Citadel.

Anita is turning two this year and is busy keeping David and me on our toes. We are also in a supper club with Grace and Will Cleveland, and love getting to share this beautiful city and all of its wonderful food with such good friends. I, Paige Kimos Odabashian, along

with my husband, are the proud new parents to our first child, Vivian, who was born on a special date, 11/12/13. We are loving life in Fells Point, where we moved in August, thankfully having a few months to spare to prepare for baby. Vivian is so much fun and is really developing quite the personality! I relish the PR and marketing work I do pro bono for the Baltimore chapter of the non-profit organization, Dress for Success. I also continue to do freelance work, including contract projects for my previous employer. Thank goodness it’s almost summer. I need my toes in the sand and a yummy cocktail in hand. Enjoy a wonderful 2014!

Class of 1999 Gretchen Crook Bauer gcbauer03@yahoo.com Our 15th Reunion is upon us and the Class of 1999 has many exciting updates to share.

First, there are several exciting weddings to announce this year. On May 10th, Wendy Forbes married Scott Grossman in Chicago.

Wendy moved to Chicago in June 2013 and has been teaching chemistry at Francis W. Parker School. She lives downtown near the lake with her new husband, Scott, and bulldog. Christina Smith Fenton was one of her bridesmaids and Stasia Thomas Nardangeli,

Whitney Jamison, Ashley Zink McLain, Kristin Sudina Frietag, Kate Jordan, 1998, Mary McCeney, 2000, and Sarah Atwood were also in attendance. Meghan Kelly is living in Chicago in the city, not far from Wendy, with her fiancé, Jeremiah Long. She says he is a wonderful guy and that they will be getting married in Cabo San Lucas on May 26, 2014.

She is a regional manager for the midwest for Tornier, an orthopedic company specializing in joint replacement. Lots of traveling! Another classmate getting married this year is Whitney Jamison. In June, she marries Jeff Price. Her maid of honor is Lauren Miller Hauk, 1998 and other RPCS bridesmaids include Kate Jordan, 1998, Wendy Forbes, Betsy Gaines and Kristin Sudina Frietag. Lots of other RPCS girls will be in attendance as well as her aunt, Dickie Wyskiel. In other news, she will be starting her new job as Assistant Head of Middle School at St. Paul’s School for Girls in the fall. She is really excited about all of the changes coming up. Corrin McBride is excited to announce that she got married in 2012. She is currently working for The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth doing academic programming and science curriculum development for gifted students. As part of this job, she gets the chance to see Mr. Brock at least once a year at national science teacher conferences! Maya Tasher Barron got married last May and Susan Mabrouk was one of her bridesmaids. She was thrilled to have Elizabeth Graziosi and Alene Wilmoth Reich there celebrating as well. They all had a blast and Maya loved having her long-time RPCS girlfriends there. She is still working at Johns Hopkins International and enjoying it. Maya and her husband, Alex, bought a house in Baltimore a couple of months ago and are having fun with the DIY home projects that have been filling their weekends lately. Lastly, Kristin Sudina Freitag got married on August 24, 2013. Her husband, Chris Freitag, owns a medical equipment company and distributes a device called the Roll-a-bout as well as other DME products. He is a Calvert Hall and Elon graduate, and Kristin met him when she was working as a recruiter for her dad’s company. She started working at Pepsi in 2010 and is still a regional sales manager for Gatorade. Kristin and Chris live in the Baltimore area, and are expecting their first child in October! She has had an eventful year, for sure. Congratulations to these newlyweds!

Speaking of babies, there are many new additions for our classmates this year. First, Brooke Crittendon is expecting a little boy (her first) on July 4, 2014. She still resides in NYC and is currently working on the management team that handles such marquee acts as Maxwell and Erykah Badu. She will be

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out for the summer on maternity leave and plans to spend it enjoying her little guy! Lauren Slevin Capelle is still working as an attorney for State Farm doing litigation defense. Every now and then she runs into other Roland Parkers in the halls of the courthouse, which is always fun. She and her husband, Andy, recently moved from their apartment in Canton to a townhouse in Canton where they plan to stay for a few more years before moving out to the county. They are also expecting a baby boy in August, and she is very excited to be a mom! This year, Natalka Burian welcomed a second baby girl, Leonora.

Her oldest, Viola, has been a great big sister.

For Natalka, it has been a busy year professionally as well. She and her husband have opened a second bar called Ramona in Brooklyn, and have been developing a line of organic specialty cocktail goods called City of Daughters. Katie Swiss King’s house is also a little crazy these days. She and her husband adore their fourteen-month old daughter, Delaney, and are expecting a son in the beginning of June! They are very excited! Katie will be staying at home next year to take care of the little guys which is a blessing but also a bittersweet goodbye (for now) to teaching.

Stasia Thomas Nardangeli and her husband, Matthew, are also expecting a baby girl on June 20, 2014! In January, Sara Levine Kornfield and her husband, Noah, welcomed their son, Caleb Moses. He joins big sister Orly, who will be three in July. Sarah was also awarded a five-year grant from the NIMH to study trauma in low-resourced pregnant

women at the Penn Center for women’s behavioral wellness. And in true style, Adrienne Smith and her husband, Trung, welcomed a baby girl, Lana Rose, into the world on New Year’s Eve 2013! They still reside in Atlanta and Adrienne is enjoying a semester off from teaching at the University of Tennesee to take care of her little one. Best wishes and lots of love go out to the new (and repeat) Mommies this year! Apart from weddings and babies, there is still much going.

Sarah Rodgers Atwood is living in Mill Valley, CA enjoying time with her son, Jack (3) and daughter, Isabel (1). She still runs a successful interior design business that she started two years ago. This spring she enjoyed a girls’ weekend in Naples, FL with Christina Smith Fenton and Lindsey Zarlengo. They had lots of laughs, a dance party or two and watched the sunset together. She reflects on how lovely it was to have that time together. They also ran into Anne Visser who was down from NYC visiting her parents. Christina Smith Fenton is enjoying busy life with her two boys, who are 15 months apart. She is currently doing a gut renovation to a historic old home in Mt. Washington that her family will move into this summer. She continues to do some consulting for commercial real estate and has her own Arbonne business as well. Tania Markowski Peters is back in Maryland and enjoying being closer to her family again after four years in Durham. She is an associate at the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery in DC performing cosmetic dermatology. Her husband, Matt, is keeping busy with law

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Lacey Baradel, 2000 and Polly Bartlett Offutt, 2000 at Lacey’s bachelorette party in Charlottesville, VA.

at Latham & Watkins and their daughter, Eleanor, turned two in December and is loving preschool in Potomac. Vinita Takiar is finishing up her residency in radiation oncology in Houston this year and hopes to move to cooler climates soon. When not in the hospital, her one-year-old daughter keeps her and her husband quite busy! Equally busy with three kids (4, 2.5 and 14 months old) is Laura Woods Annous. She is living in Falls Church, VA with her husband and is working for Accenture and loving life. Megan Kutzer moved from Sweden to Germany last March.

She has a PhD position at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, in evolutionary biology. Candace Leake finished up her master’s last summer and is now working as an academic advisor at George Washington University. She moved to Prince George’s County and is enjoying life in DC. She actually ran into Elizabeth Graziosi on the metro one evening on her way home-very cool. She is also hoping to start a doctorate degree in higher education administration soon. Lauren Francioli shares that she went to Ireland this past November for Thanksgiving and had an amazing time. She traveled all over and saw some amazing places. Her real estate business is booming and she still loves living in Homeland.

Finally, Maria Mainolfi is currently living in upstate New York near the Finger Lakes and practicing medicine with Guthrie Clinic as an occupational and environmental medicine physician. She recently published a journal article for JOEM, Low Level Exposure to Air Pollution and Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Hillsborough County, Florida. Maria has followed in her grandfather’s footsteps practicing the same type of medicine. Maria also just celebrated

her second year of marriage to Arthur Palarata.

They were married in Thailand (his country of origin) and have enjoyed the blessings of this beautiful union since. They just bought their first home on Seneca Lake and opened a restaurant in Corning, New York called PanAsia, which will be featured in Food and Wine. She has no babies yet, but offered congratulations to all the new parents in our class. She plans to attend the reunion in October and can’t wait to reconnect! As for me, Gretchen Crook Bauer, I am currently enjoying some maternity leave with my husband, Nick, our two-year-old son, Luke, and new daughter, Annabel Julia, who arrived on April 22, 2014. Amazingly, my sister, Katie Crook Etoh, 2001 and I had babies this spring, just one week apart! Thus, our family is nothing but excited for our new additions!

Luke is a good (but energetic) big brother so far, and in order to spend quality time with them, I will return to teach at The Potomac School on just a part-time basis this fall. I look forward to seeing lots of classmates at our 15th Reunion this fall and hope you all consider catching up at this event!

Class of 2000 Lisa Trader Giacobbe lisatgiacobbe@gmail.com Hello Class of 2000! Another year has flown by. Thanks for reaching out with your updates and best of luck to all of you in your

Caroline Giacobbe, daughter of Lisa Trader Giacobbe, 2000

Liz Levin Hlavek’s, 2000 daughter Scarlett

personal and professional endeavors! Lacey Baradel writes: I am happy to report that I have finally completed my PhD in art history after seven long years and look forward to graduation in May 2014. The festivities will continue into June when Randy and I plan to get married on the eastern shore (Polly Bartlett Offutt will fill the role of matron of honor)!

Liz Levin Hlavek had a daughter, Scarlett, in August 2013. Liz continues to work as an art therapist in private practice outside of DC. She’s excited to spend the summer with other RPCS friends and babies. Rachel Morgan Spencer is still living in Virginia and this last year she and her husband adopted a second puppy who keeps them busy. She writes: I was also named a senior associate at my agency and promoted to director of research. But most exciting of all is that we’re expecting our first child in October! Yay for 2014 babies!

Emily Plowden Feldhusen and her husband Tom are looking forward to celebrating their son, August’s, first birthday at the end of April.

She writes: Can’t believe it’s already been a year! Augie is a constant reminder to enjoy every moment life brings, he’s growing so fast and we are anxiously awaiting his first steps, which I know are soon to come. Both she and Tom work for different start-up companies, which are a great challenge with many rewards. Tom has been working with his, Invited Home, for over four years now. Emily has been with hers, Buzz Design Studios, for just a few months now and is looking forward to future successes. Emily and her family also look forward to their first trip overseas to

Germany to vacation with her sister’s family for Octoberfest! Liza Randolph continues to reside in Vancouver, BC and recently gained her permanent residence status so she may be staying awhile. Architecture day-job pays the bills, but she’s teaching more and more yoga, and most recently to expecting mamas! She does not have kids of her own (yet), but she finds working with expecting mothers (direct friends or new students) is a wonderful way to connect with her friends who are mothers.

All the while, offering a special way for momsto-be to connect with their baby. Maybe by Class Notes next year, she’ll be teaching yoga exclusively. Only time will tell…Look her up if you’re ever called west to Vancouver! Sarah Shaefer is continuing to work in NYC as an actor and now as a playwright. This year, her play The Gin Baby was produced in NYC in January. Another one of her plays will be going up in July. She is currently working as an actor on another off-Broadway show A Fable. In addition, she is working on a commission to write a play about a selkie, which will premiere in Los Angeles next year.

I, Lisa Trader Giacobbe, continue to live in Baltimore and work as a program supervisor with one of the outpatient mental health clinics at Catholic Charities. Shawn completed his MS in physician assistant studies this past summer and is working at the Rubin Institute.

Our daughter Caroline will be two this summer and we are having a ball watching her grow up fast! I am stepping down as Class Rep, so if you would like to reach out to classmates and report the news next spring, please contact the Alumnae Office.

Sarah Shaefer, 2000 starring in Bus Stop, a play by William Inge

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Members of the Alumnae Board from the Class of 2001 Lauren Dodrill Benjamin, Sarah Harrison and Annie Ferebee Short

Class of 2001 Courtney Brent cgbrent@gmail.com Erin Lears Richardson richardsone@rpcs.org It has been an exciting year for the Class of 2001 babies, weddings, dogs and more! Dinah Bengur is currently living in Washington, DC and working on financial services projects at the International Finance Corporation. In January she met up with Elena Olivi for an awesome vacation on the coast of Kenya!

Amanda Hall Bonaviri is currently working as the Creative Director for Uh Oh Pasghettio, a company that creates printed goods for babies and kids. She still resides in Chicago with her husband Brian and daughter Zoey but they will soon be moving to Charlotte, NC and will be welcoming a new baby late this summer!

Shawn Slotke Brown loves living in Canton with her husband Rob and their crazy black lab name Camden. She completed her second season coaching a Girls on the Run team at Solley Elementary in Glen Burnie. On April 27 she ran as a SoleMate for the Iron Girl half and raised money for GOTR. “Encouraging my team to not only love running but to also be active and positive members in their community has been a very rewarding experience.” Shawn is also helping her sister, Michelle Slotke, 2004 prepare for her wedding this September. Semeria Byner is also celebrating a wedding this May and is expecting a baby in July! She is currently living

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in North Carolina and looking forward to the great things happening in her life. Sheena Cline Byrnes was married last year and moved to Newburgh, IN as a market director for Berry Plastics. She is on the move again, this time to Darien, CT. Sheena is staying with her current company and could not be more excited about moving back east. Kerri Huebner Carlile is living in their new home in sunny Gilbert, AZ with her husband, two daughters and a new addition, their puppy Pepper who has quickly turned into their third child. In January she began a new job as a senior outcomes analyst for a well-being company and loves it and is also now a red head! Meredith Forbes Coleman is living in Silver Spring and spending her days chasing her three crazy and sweet little boys— Kinsey (6), Brooks (4) and Grady who just turned one this January. This past December, Lauren Dodrill Benjamin was married to her husband James in Baltimore. They are both attorneys in Towson and live with their cat Xena, a rescue who was shot in the shoulder with an arrow but is now a very happy, healthy and spoiled cat. By her side on her wedding day were Kelsey Twist Schroeder’s daughter Hazel acting as flower girl, and her classmates Heidi Kendall and Sarah Harrison. Sarah also has some exciting news! This past December she got engaged and is getting married in August. When she is not working at Morgan Stanley, or helping out as VP of the RPCS Alumnae Board, she is busy making wedding plans. Katherine Owens Eckstein and her husband Benjamin welcomed their second son Emmett who joins big brother Owen. They are enjoying the craziness that comes along with raising two active boys and Kate is now the regional head of learning and development for

Oliver Wyman. They live just outside of Boston and Kate often travels to New York for work so local ladies should look her up!

Katelin Crook Etoh and her husband Nnamdi also welcomed a new baby boy, Asher John, in early April. She lives in Baltimore and is the marketing director for Ziger/Snead Architects; however these days she is adjusting to life with baby! Dina Karkar also made some big changes. She recently moved to Austin to be with her fiancé Ryan and they adopted a new dog, Jet! She got a job as a graphic designer for a startup company and has been enjoying wedding planning and her new life in Texas.

Allison Higgins Keenan and her husband Jeff are still residing in Durham. She is enjoying her life down south and making new friends in the area. She and Julia Bainbridge were able to visit each other this year and both times Julia whipped up a fabulous dinner! Allison and Jeff also added a rescue beagle puppy to their family and named him Roland (yes after Roland Park!). Jane Li Kenyon is in Chicago with her husband Jason and they both made big career moves this year. Jason is now at Willis Re and Jane is at Jenner & Block LLP. Jane traveled quite a bit this year, traveling across Europe and visiting Elizabeth Lesser in Los Angeles where they went to Medieval Times and it was “awwweeesome!” Sarah Passano Meech and her family will be leaving Baltimore and heading north to Barrington, RI this summer. Annabelle and Grady are looking forward to being able to collect seashells all year long and getting to know New England better! Almost one year ago, Catherine Pope left agency life and started her own venture as a publicist specializing in fashion, beauty and lifestyle-always hectic (especially during fashion week) but rewarding. She has enjoyed traveling all over, including Southeast Asia

Little Bear Child Care buddies Penny Richardson, daughter of Erin Lears Richardson, 2001 and Hudson Short, son of Annie Ferebee Short, 2001

The wedding of Monica Willats MancusiUngaro, 2001

(Cambodia, Vietnam and Hong Kong) and Central America (Panama and Costa Rica).

Also doing a lot of traveling is Samantha Levin Whitcomb’s family. Last August they moved to Germany and have been loving life in Europe, traveling all over Germany as well as Belgium and France so far. Living in Germany is amazing, but very different from the United States! Kathryn Scott Potter and her husband Chris welcomed their daughter, Selah Grace Potter, last July. She smiles all of the time, moves like a dancer and is already singing! She and Chris love her more than they knew they were capable of and are looking forward to spending more time together as a family.

Meridith Price is still living in the DC area and just began a new position with the Smithsonian last summer. She is enjoying the jump from university campus to a large collection of museums and research centers where she can catch an exhibit on her lunch break. Last fall she joined Charlotte Eyring and some other Roland Park ladies at Charlotte’s wedding at the Baltimore Aquarium. She also recently returned from a trip to Austin, TX where she was visiting her sister Leigh Price Garvis and her new niece, Olivia! Meri was also able to visit with Dina while in Austin and tried to meet up with Lulu Zeitouneh, but Lulu was too busy hanging out with celebrities like Mindy Kaling! Lulu is still living in NYC and is going on her sixth year at Marie Claire and is the art director on the advertising side.

Check out her pins on Pinterest to get some style tips! Kelsey Twist Shroeder is entering her eighth(!) year teaching at RPCS and second year as the Upper School Dean of Students.

When she is not on campus, she is busy with her two daughters Hazel (5) and Lillian (2) who are both continuing to grow and thrive after their early births. She continues to feel blessed to have many of her 2001 classmates as professional colleagues and dear friends.

Anne Landay Sherbine and her husband Evan moved to Charlotte, NC last year. She is a

clinical research nurse at Novant Health Heart and Vascular Institute and is rocking it! Kirsten Stone Simpson will be entering her sixth year with Thermo Scientific as a proteomics applications specialist (Google it!). She and Matt are excited to announce that one year old Reid will become a big brother this fall! He loves his dog and never stops moving but is so much fun! She cannot wait for the controlled chaos that is two under two! Danielle Smith graduated from law school in 2012 and made the move from New York City to Richmond to take a job as a law clerk with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She ended up meeting her fiancé and she is also getting married this September in San Francisco. She is now in the process of starting a business as a luxury travel consultant with a company called KK Travels Worldwide planning custom vacations all over the world! Also making the move south was Kristen Sloan, who now resides in south Florida and recently accepted a design position in West Palm Beach. She found a cute beach house in Delray Beach and is moving in May. Her dog Ella is excited to explore her very first yard! She will also be setting up a guest room so visitors are welcome.

Erin Lears Richardson and her husband John recently purchased a home in Towson that they love, but most importantly they welcomed Baby #2, William Lears Richardson, to the family last October! He is absolutely adorable and big sister Penny (2) loves to give him bear hugs. Both kids attend Little Bear Child Care so Erin can visit with them several times during the work day. At Little Bear Penny loves spending time with her best friend Hudson,

Owen and Emmett, sons of Kate Owens Eckstein, 2001

son of fellow classmate Annie Ferebee Short.

Annie is enjoying her seventh year teaching Upper School and Middle School dance at RPCS. She is excited for her summer sabbatical, where she will travel with her husband to NYC and see a variety of Broadway shows. Annie is also looking forward to many days spent at the pool with two year old Hudson. Courtney Brent started a new job as a wealth manager for an accounting firm in Towson. She is also getting married this May to fiancé Timothy Kaufman and is looking forward to the planning being over with! It has been a little over a year since Bridget Mooney Spence passed away. Bridget was a beloved member of our Class and we miss her very much.

The wedding of Lauren Dodrill Benjamin, 2001 with classmates Dina Karkar, Heidi Kendall, Sarah Harrison and Kelsey Twist Schroeder

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Class of 2002 Edith Birney Wilson ee.birney@gmail.com I feel like I say it every year, but I honestly can’t believe another year has passed. I attended the RPCS graduation ceremonies in 2013 and watched my sister walk across the stage in her white dress and red roses and couldn’t believe so much time had passed since our graduation.

So, let’s start with our classmates in and around Baltimore. Bethany McEvoy is working in commercial real estate development. Kristina Pompa is an event producer for Feats, Inc. Kris travels to different universities to produce campaign launches. She works with Kaylie Forner, 2007 and often hangs out with Alex Moylan. New mom Kristen Demarco Rickard is also in Baltimore. She and her husband welcomed Lydia Noelle Rickard on December 22, 2013. Saniha Makhzoumi is working on her PhD in clinical psychology and specializing in eating disorders at Johns Hopkins. Katie Prevas Glazerman was married in September. She writes: One of my most cherished memories was my dear RPCS friend, Perri Kraus, singing as I walked down the aisle. It was beautiful! Katie and her husband honeymooned in Europe and traveled through Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece and France. Katie is working for ExpressCare Urgent Care Centers as a physician assistant. She recently joined the management team as director of clinical provider relations. Callie Helms

The wedding of Katie Peck Fuchs, 2002 with Helen Lee Williams Sale, 2002, Sarah Scalia, 2002, Lauren Burd, 2002, Lawrie Peck, 2005, Olivia Stringer, 2002, Jessica Winicki Kallaugher, 2002, Kinsey Morrison Sale, 2002 and Carrie Schenning Sheehan, 2002

has had a busy year planning her June 2013 wedding. She bought a house in Mays Chapel in May 2012. Allyson Crawley Lundquist started her own traveling hair business. Big year of milestones for Allyson as she and her husband celebrated their five-year wedding anniversary and her daughter, Isabella, turned ten. Kristen Lamotte finished her MBA last year and recently started a position as VP of produce management at a data startup

Edith Birney Wilson, 2002 wedding on the Eastern Shore with RPCS alumnae and bridesmaids Martha Isaacs, 2013, Lucy Rogers, 2002 and Jordan Mixter, 2002

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in Washington, DC. Kristen got married in January and had Jessica Kaplan as her maid of honor. Jess Kaplan has also had an exciting year. She got engaged in January, graduated Georgetown Law in the spring and is planning a May 2015 wedding. Jess will be working at a litigation firm in DC starting in the fall. Ashlee Tuck moved to DC and works at USAID. She recently spent two months working in their Tanzania office. She was able to explore Tanzania when she wasn’t working. Jordan Mixter is a senior merchandising associate at Total Wine and More. She enjoys seeing Rachel Caplan Humphreys around Washington, DC. Liz Hollick is living in Annapolis and working at The Key School. Next year, she’ll be teaching fifth grade humanities and also coaching lacrosse. Liz will finish her master’s for early childhood education at Towson in December.

Liz and Jenny Galvez were bridesmaids in Megan Welsh Flashnick’s wedding in April.

Celeste Von Klencke Flechtner and her husband have been living and working in Berlin since November 2012. Celeste is doing her residency in internal medicine with a focus on pulmonology. However, Celeste will be taking a little break from working when their daughter is born in May. Celeste would love to visit with any classmates if they ever find themselves traveling through Berlin!

Parissa Jahromi Ballard is also a new mom to Benson. Baby Benson Grey Ballard was born November 29, 2013. PJ finished her PhD in child and adolescent development at Stanford and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF

Katie Prevas Glazerman’s, 2002 wedding with classmates Lisa Kebejian, Perri Kraus, Eliza Alexander and Usha Tyson

and UC Berkeley. Her research is focused on how youth civic engagement can promote health and strengthen communities. Lucy Rogers moved from San Diego to New York City. She works as a global sales manager, selling and managing deals across the world.

A work perk is the travel! She has traveled to Brazil, London and Korea in the last few months. Lucy has enjoyed being back closer to friends and family. Katie Peck Fuchs was married to Ben Fuchs on September 21, 2013 at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Baltimore County. Katie’s bridal party was comprised of eight Roland Park friends, including her Maid of Honor and sister, Lawrie Peck, 2005. Katie and Ben live in New York City. Lauren Burd will be getting married to Hunter Wakeland this July in Maine. She spends a lot of time with other RPCS classmates living in the city. Kinsey Morrison Sale and her husband live in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC. Kinsey is vice president in J.P Morgan Asset Management’s Global Real Assets Group managing a portfolio of multi family properties. Her husband just finished his final year at Wharton and will be returning to a full time schedule at SVIP. Kinsey’s sister, Annie Morrison, and brother both live in Manhattan! Christine Werthman

From the Class of 2002, Jordan Mixter, Christine Werthman, Bethany McEvoy and Kristen DeMarco Rickard celebrate Bethany’s 30th birthday

got a new job as the managing editor of the hip-hop magazine XXL, which will make sense to anyone who knew about her love of the Ruff Ryders in high school. She still lives in New York. Michelle Johnston gave birth to her second daughter on March 20, 2013.

Marena Grace joined big sister Zoe. Michelle graduated from Nova Southeastern University with a master’s in anesthesiology and is now a board certified anesthesiology assistant in Florida. As for me, Edith Birney Wilson, I was married on the eastern shore of Maryland last July. My husband, Dave and I had so much fun at our wedding and the weather cooperated for an outdoor celebration. We’re both teachers in the suburbs of Boston, and enjoying the quietness of a year without wedding planning!

Congratulations to all our classmates on their weddings, babies and career moves. This class is, and has always been, quite a group of women and I’m honored to be a part of it!

Class of 2003 10th Reunion Lindsay M. Higgins lindsaymhiggins@gmail.com After RPCS Nicole Carter Steele went to McDaniel College for a dual Bachelors in psychology and sociology and she minored in art history. In 2008 Nicole and her daughter Avery moved to Los Angeles. Nicole began working as a Youth Counselor for a residential group home and Avery got into a great independent school. She really enjoyed doing what she could to affect the lives of the children she worked with, and soon realized that textbook knowledge, while helpful, wasn’t all that they needed. Nicole developed alternative programs like gardening and cooking and really watched the kids flourish and start thinking critically about themselves and their environment. Nicole also started working with the mayor to develop a way to address the lack of access not only to healthy food, but also to green spaces and safe environments in their city. As a result of that she now works with a great non-profit that has adopted Nicole’s program 100 Seeds of Change. She basically gets to go out and make an impact on her community by teaching about food justice, nutrition, gardening, and then bridging all that together through policy change. In October of last year Nicole married Derek Steele. Avery is seven now and at the top of her class in school, a seasoned dancer and artist and a little community organizer in her own right. Derek and Nicole are expecting another daughter in

Emily Duvall Jolicoeur, 2003, Isabel Rodgers, 2003, Phoebe Legg, 2003 and Lauren Shepley, 2003

July. Ashley Nolan Gwyne is living in Baltimore County with her husband, Graham. She has been working in Baltimore City for the past four years as a Pre-K teacher and loves it!

Ashley and Graham will be celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary in June! They are also in the process of looking for their first home. Amanda Ortel Frank lives in New York City. She and her husband welcomed a baby boy, Grady Craven Frank IV, in June 2013, and they are expecting a baby girl this November. Amanda has recently become involved with the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a non-profit organization that builds facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of soldiers returning from service who suffer from traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. She is leading the fundraising effort to complete nine Intrepid Spirit Centers for TBI and PTS at military bases around the United States. Airlia Esworthy Lotz and her husband are expecting their first child, a boy in June.

They have since moved and have bought a

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Sarah Swiss, 2003 running the Rock and Roll Marathon

house in Airlia’s hometown. She is still working as a surgical assistant in the neurosurgery department at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Emily Duvall Jolicoeur is still living in Hampden with her husband Eric and their lab. The love of their lives! Emily has been working at an insurance defense firm in Pikesville for two years and absolutely loves it. In October 2013 she ran in the Marine Corps Marathon, her first and probably last. It was a great course and amazing crowd. Emily found a fellow Dickinson alum the day of the race and they ran the whole thing together, which was pretty cool. She decided to give running a bit of a break, so she and her husband will be doing a 25 mile bike ride in April on the eastern shore.

Kellie Bland is currently getting her master’s in intercultural communication at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is also working at The Friends of Patterson Park in southeast Baltimore as a Shriver Peace Worker Fellow where she helps with programming for the Spanish speaking community in the park.

Kellie is enjoying living in Baltimore and reconnecting with old friends. Charlotte Hindsley is graduating from UNC’s KenanFlagler Business School in May 2014. She is now working for IBM in Washington, DC. After ten years of living in Boulder, CO, Phoebe Legg and her fiancé are planning on moving to Boston, MA at the end of the summer to start their next chapter! They are looking forward to an exciting summer, highlighted by their Baltimore wedding in June 2014. Currently, Phoebe is the director of digital marketing for Active Interest Media Outdoor Group, representing SKI, Skiing, Backpacker and Climbing media properties.

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working for Vince Camuto. Ashley Dent Eklund and her husband lived in Tokyo for three months as part of a global rotation program through her work at Google. They did some traveling within Japan and also in southeast Asia after her work assignment.

They then moved to San Francisco in August 2013 – they decided that it was time to escape the Chicago winters, and Ashley accepted an opportunity to transfer to a growing display advertising team in Google’s downtown San Francisco office. They have enjoyed exploring the many restaurants and outdoor activities that the Bay Area has to offer. They look forward to making their first trip to Tahoe this summer when her brother and his family rent a place there. If any fellow RPCS alums make it out to San Francisco, let her know and she’ll take you to her favorite mission burrito place.

Joi-Marie McKenzie is still living in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and working as an entertainment producer at ABC News.

She’s recently interviewed celebrities such as Nick Cannon, Dean Cain, Kris Jenner and LaToya Jackson. She’s still running her blog TheFabEmpire that covers events in cities across the U.S. and plans to celebrate the site’s seventh anniversary this fall. McKenzie is also really looking forward to her next international trip to Romania and Turkey with Ashlee Tuck, 2002. Erin Lacy Hollander lives in Canton with her husband Brett. This is her fourth year teaching at Calvert School, but her first year teaching pre-first, and she absolutely loves it!

Hannah Whitman Clark, 2003 and her husband following their wedding

Morgan Wright, 2003, Molly Frew, 2003 and Lindsay Higgins, 2003

Erin got married last summer in Baltimore and six out of her nine bridesmaids attended RPCS - Isabel Rodgers, Emily Duvall, Lauren Shepley, Phoebe Legg, Allison Lacy Watts, 2005 and Liza Lacy, 2006. Our sympathy to Erin and her family following the recent death of her mother Mary Susemihl Lacy, 1976 this May. Sarah Swiss finished as the seventh overall woman in the Rock ‘n’ Roll New Orleans Marathon. She got a new job, moved across the country and turned 30! 2014 has been a busy one for Sarah. Upon returning to Baltimore after living in North Carolina for four years, she reunited with her high school indoor track coach, Jim Lancaster, for some long cold early mornings on the Gilman track to prepare for the Rock ‘n’ Roll New Orleans Marathon. While going for a personal record finish time, she never thought the training would lead to finishing in the top ten for females. Crossing the finish line with a time of 3:13 for the 26.2 miles was extremely exciting for Sarah, and her good news got even better when she was offered a job with the company that put on the race. She happily accepted the job offer to be an event manager for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series with Competitor group. A week later, she packed up her life again and moved to San Diego, CA where they are headquartered. A week into being in San Diego, she was able to celebrate her 30th birthday on the beach surrounded by friends.

With how 2014 has started, she is excited to see what the rest of the year brings. Sowmya Ravi (Amy) is living in Baltimore and is completing her residency in dermatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Molly Frew graduated from Wharton in May 2013. She was able to visit Ashley Dent in Tokyo and had fun celebrating Hannah Whitman’s wedding in Baltimore last September. Molly is now living in Boston and working as an equity research analyst at a mutual fund. Molly thought Lindsay Higgins did a fabulous job planning their 10th Reunion, and she had a blast getting to catch up with old friends. Lauren Shepley continues to live in and love New Orleans.

Class of 2004 Meredith Holden Hauf meredithholden@gmail.com

Erin Lacy Hollander, 2003 with her bridesmaids

After teaching yoga for about five years at Swan River Yoga, she decided to go back to school and is now finishing up the first year of a doctor of physical therapy program at LSU. She plans to continue living and working in New Orleans after she graduates in 2016. This past summer, Lauren enjoyed being a bridesmaid in Erin Lacy Hollander’s wedding and reconnecting with her RPCS friends.

Kathleen Trotter currently works as a nurse at University of Maryland Medical Center in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Hannah Whitman got married in September - they had a wonderful time celebrating with friends and family! Hannah and her husband are living

Kathleen Trotter, 2003, Lindsay Higgins, 2003, Kellie Bland, 2003 and Ashley Nolan Gwynne, 2003 in Fells Point

downtown, and she is now an attorney in Ober|Kaler’s health law division. Chester, a lab mix puppy, is the newest addition to their family! Stephanie Shapiro is still working at the Smithsonian in the office of advancement and is curating at SCRAP-DC. Anne Troup is still acting in NYC. She is also doing some directing and producing. She currently is working on a production in Ithaca, NY called Lungs. She spent the first part of the year making a fool of herself thru a series she called “A Dance A Day.” Each day Anne picked a song and a location and danced her heart out for all the world to see. All of the dances are on YouTube. Grace Keith graduated in May 2014 from NYU’s Stern School of Business with an MBA, focusing on global business, marketing and finance. She continues to enjoy working in public relations for Thomson Reuters, though Times Square can get exhausting! Vincent McKinney and Ashley Conklin McKinney got married in Chicago last July. Ashley also survived the epic severe weather delay at the Bears-Ravens game last year along with Mary Helen Shaughnessy and Meredith Shull Dykstra. In June 2013, Lindsay Higgins joined Morgan Samuels as a senior research associate.

She still enjoys traveling as much as she can; in the past year she has visited Los Angeles, Miami, Austin and Durham, and she is currently planning a trip to Kauai.

Ginger Owens Asher married Seth Asher at a beautiful ceremony in Kennett Square, PA on September 28, 2013. The entire Owens family was there to celebrate the day together. This year Ginger will complete her state licensure to be a National Board Certified Counselor of Mental Health for the state of Delaware. It has been a long road of degrees and gaining hours of experience, but the time has finally arrived and she couldn’t be more excited! Caroline Boeke has had an exciting year, from getting engaged last summer to travels in France, Sweden and Turkey. She is incredibly excited for the year ahead! Katharine Fox Castro is still living the dream here in Baltimore, doing investment banking for M&T Bank. She’s still spending a lot of time at RPCS as stepmother to Stella Castro, 2023 and as incoming Alumnae Association President July 1. She and her husband’s biggest news is a pending addition to their family - a baby girl (perhaps a future RPCS girl!) due in September! They can’t wait to meet her and are so excited for Stella to be a big sister! Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson shared a picture of her daughter, Carter Elizabeth Chesson! She is eight-monthsold and loves RPCS just like her mom. Sarah Sims and her husband Mark live in Raleigh, NC. Wendy Blue is Carter’s Godmother! After almost three years at the Woodbourne Center working with teens in foster care who have mood disorders, Peri Cohen decided to take a job as a therapist with Advanced Therapeutic Connections where she started this past May. Last December Peri passed her exam to become a licensed certified social worker-clinical (LCSW-C) which is one of the highest licenses

Hilary Rogers, 2004, Caitlin Cantrall, 2008, Katie Peck, 2002, Lucy Rogers, 2002, Sarah Scalia, 2002, Sydney Rogers, 2010 and Natalia Rodriguez, 2004 at the NYC Regional Reunion

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Nkenge Wheatland, 2004 and her boyfriend David at Parilee Edison, 2004’s wedding

a social worker can test for. Peri is currently living in Canton and loving it. Susanna Cooper is still living in Cambridge, MA and working at an agency in Quincy doing prescription drug abuse prevention for kids and adults. She gets to hang out and try trendy restaurants with fancy cheeses and craft cocktails with Lauren Veverka frequently (she lives in neighboring Somerville). In other news, Susanna is looking forward to coming home to Baltimore with Allison Davis for Shannon Deoul’s wedding next month! Courtney Zeiders De Pol and her husband Robb, a Navy pilot, moved to Atsugi, Japan in May 2013 where he joined the VFA-102 Diamondbacks F/A-18 Squadron. Although sad to leave her engineering job in Virginia Beach, she is taking full advantage of her time in the Far East. This past year, she’s travelled to South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia! They will be stationed there until 2016, so if you

plan to visit the Tokyo area, she would love to touch base! Sayonara! Elizabeth Duke graduates from University of Maryland School of Medicine this spring and starts at Boston Children’s Hospital in July for residency in pediatric neurology. She is also getting married June 7th! Katie Duncan is living in Fells Point and is a second year ophthalmology resident at University of Maryland. Jenna Epstein is living in south central Pennsylvania and works for the West Virginia public school system as a School Counselor where she coordinates the FLEX program - a behavioral support/alternative education program for at-risk and behaviorally challenged students in Grades 3-5. She is also finishing up her supervision requirements towards her private license as a licensed professional counselor (LPC), which she will complete around January 2015. She is also enjoying her second year of marriage to husband, Jason. Sam Epstein is living in the East Village of NYC working in sales and recruiting as a practice manager for Workbridge Associates. She’s currently planning her December 2014 wedding to Gilman 2004 grad Aaron King and is excited for the future! Audie Fugett had a busy October as she and her fiancé became engaged, and she began work as an associate at Anston Capital in Harbor East. On March, 12, 2014, Audie gave birth to their first son, August Russell Jones. Audie is currently enjoying motherhood living in Lutherville, MD. Meredith Hauf is obtaining her license in nursing home administration. Broadmead, located in Hunt Valley, has graciously offered to host her year-long, on-site licensing rotation prior to her sitting for state and federal boards.

She is also enjoying living in Mays Chapel with her boyfriend, Mike. Ann French Howard had

The wedding of Kelly Soth, 2004 to Chris Nolan with RPCS bridesmaids Jenna Epstein, Lauren Gibbs, Sam Epstein, Meredith Hauf and Leeann Liebsch

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Katharine Fox Castro, 2004 and Annie Ferebee Short, 2001, members of the Alumnae Board

a big year! She and husband Chris welcomed their first child, a baby girl, Findlay Ann Howard to the world on January 18. Ann resigned from teaching Kindergarten in December to stay home with Fin. Ann’s husband accepted a new job with the Home Depot so they sold their house in Chattanooga and moved to Marietta, GA in April. It’s been a busy year full of many wonderful blessings!

Katie Atkins Kauffman and her husband Billy are eagerly anticipating the arrival of their first child, a boy, due June 6. He may even crash their one year wedding anniversary on June 1!

Katie continues to work as a full-time personal trainer at the Maryland Athletic Club in Harbor East. She plans to take a couple months off this summer before heading back to work in the fall. Nancy Kwan is still working at MetLife and living in the Chicago area. She has been traveling and enjoying what the city has to offer! Kelly Soth Nolan is living in Federal Hill with her new husband, Chris Nolan whom she married in April. She is currently the U.S. sales manager for a wireless infrastructure manufacturer and travels the U.S. frequently. Grace Park is finishing her second year at Shenandoah University Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. She has two years left and is looking forward to finishing up the didactic portion of the curriculum. Kiki Law Perrini is still working at Johns Hopkins as an RN, but accepted a new position last fall in the PACU (the recovery room where people go right after surgery and are coming out from anesthesia) and is really enjoying the change!

Kiki and her husband Chris moved from Canton and bought a house last summer in

Ginger Owens Asher, 2004 and Seth Asher on their wedding day

Hunt Valley. And, they are expecting a little baby Perrini in September! Aleksandra Robinson got engaged to Greg Sandstrom in December while they were on a sailing trip in the Caribbean - and they decided to get married on May 31, 2014 at Greg’s parents’ home in Leesburg, VA, so wedding planning has been a whirlwind. RPCS classmates Rachel Holmes and Kelly Szpara are bridespeople in the wedding. Her new favorite hobby for the past year has been sewing clothing and blogging about it at Liveaboard Takes the Suburbs. She’s even making my wedding dress! Hilary Rogers is still in NYC living in the West Village and loves getting together with Allison Davis and Natalia Rodriguez. She is currently in graduate school at Columbia University getting her master’s in fundraising management and is working as a development summer associate at the American Red Cross this summer. She can’t wait to see everyone at our ten year reunion. In December 2013, Michele Slotke got engaged to Charles Floeckher, a 2004 Boys Latin graduate, who can track their first meeting to a sixth grade mixer on the Roland Park tennis courts. In March, Michele and Charles moved to Boston, where Michele took a position at edX, an MIT- Harvard joint venture that provides open, online courses to learners around the globe. In September, Michele and Charles will be married in Vermont, near his parents’ home, with Carla Johnston as a bridesmaid and Shawn Slotke Brown, 2001 as maid of honor. Becca Warfield Smith and her husband Beau welcomed their son, Frederick Bruce Smith V, “Reid,” on October 6, 2013. They are enjoying being new parents and seeing familiar faces around Rodgers Forge! In July of 2013, Dani Kell Steinbach left her position

as director of membership at the Elkridge Club and joined RPCS full time. She has recently accepted the position of Director of External Programs and Kaleidoscope, and she continues to coach both varsity volleyball and basketball.

Both teams had amazing seasons this year volleyball won the IAAM B Conference Championship and basketball finished as runners-up in the IAAM A Conference. On the personal side, Dani and her husband Christopher will be celebrating their two-year anniversary on May 26 and they’re excited for the arrival of their daughter in July. They’re working to get their house and nursery ready for what is sure to be an exciting summer!

Andrea vanWagenberg is currently working at Affigent in Herndon, VA selling IT solutions to the Federal Government. Her biggest customer is the Air Force. She will finish her master’s in cybersecurity policy from MD in the fall and is looking forward to pursuing a more specific career in cybersecurity and digital forensics.

Andrea just moved to Woodley Park in DC and cannot wait to decorate her place. She looks forward to reconnecting with everyone at the reunion. Nkenge Wheatland is still working on completing her PhD in computer science from UC Riverside. She received her master’s last summer. She then presented her master’s thesis at the Motion in Games conference which was held in Dublin, Ireland.

When she’s not at school coding or cleaning motion capture data, she’s at her CrossFit gym.

She love working out and she has a great group of friends there. Starting this summer, Nkenge will be continuing her PhD research at Clemson University where she will be working with a collaborating professor. Living in southern California has been a lot of fun, and she gets to see Cat Crowder and Shannon Deoul a bit when she’s not too busy with school. Lacey Haciski Zelino and her husband recently moved to DC, where they are both currently working for the government. They are eagerly anticipating their first child in October.

Courtney Zeiders De Pol, 2004 and her husband Robb celebrate their 2nd Anniversary in Tokyo

Class of 2005 Erin Durbin Erintdurbin@gmail.com I want to start with some good news from our friend and classmate Brittany Bland. She is a breast cancer survivor and is excited to begin her career in higher education. It’s obvious from our career choices how many of us were inspired by our teachers at RPCS to go into education ourselves. Catherine Bonaparte is working as an academic advisor in higher education while she completes her master’s in teaching for Kindergarten through second grade. Catherine spends her free time student teaching and managing her online jewelrymaking business. A few of us have returned to Baltimore (B’more, why be less?) or we never left! In the greatest city in America, you’ll find Tara Lewis living in Canton. Tara is in her fourth year of teaching kindergarten and her second year at Pine Grove Elementary in Parkville. Tara also teaches at a small private art camp in the summer. Brianne Kopf is also living downtown and teaching third grade at Colgate Elementary. Brianne is traveling to Sydney, Australia this summer to nanny.

Brianne wrote that she recently attended the wedding of Allison Lacy, who got married in San Diego in March. Our sympathy to Alli and her family following the recent death of her mother Mary Susemihl Lacy, 1976 this May. Blakely Goldsmith works at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School in Admissions and is enrolled in grad school at Hopkins. Kendall Gray lives near the Inner Harbor and serves as the district sales manager for Power Plant Live! Maria Stratakis has been living in New Orleans since January, but will be returning to Baltimore in June to do private events at the Four Seasons in Harbor East. Shannon Burke recently moved back to Baltimore from Philadelphia after completing her master’s of health sciences. Shannon is beginning dental school at the University of Maryland this fall. Hallie Atwater lives in a Fells Point row house with her sisters, Casey and Caroline.

Hallie recently made the transition from foster care social work to hospital social work. She is now working as a maternal child health social worker at GBMC and loves it! Caroline Hartman is a licensed therapist and works in Towson for a treatment program specializing in women with eating disorders. Kiersten Osterchrist is a University of Maryland Shock Trauma nurse specializing in care coordination.

Kiersten graduated with her master’s in December 2012 and currently lives in Rodgers Forge. Liz Vayda is also enjoying life in

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The wedding of Alli Lacy Watts, 2005 with (l. to r.) Erin Lacy Hollander, 2003, Alli, Liza Lacy, 2006, and Brianne Kopf, 2005 in San Diego

Baltimore. Liz has her own interior gardening business called b.Willow, performs music regularly around the east coast, loves spending time with her two nieces and two nephews and really can’t help but to be busy all the time!

You can find Liz at the Fells Point Farmer’s Market this summer and check out some of her plants! Nearby in DC, Mary Palmer serves as vice president of a Democratic consulting firm.

Tina Knipp works for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda as a management analyst. She is also in school part-time at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy completing her master’s. Stacy CooperKirsch, who still works for the Naval Sea Systems Command, just bought her first condo in DC with her husband. They love their new place - when the trees are bare in the winter you can see the Washington Monument from their kitchen window! Stacy also began Georgetown’s evening MBA program last fall.

Sarah Zimmerman reports that she is back in school in a post-baccalaureate premed program in DC. She plans to apply to medical school this summer. Sarah credits Alisha Williams for inspiring her to go back to school.

Sarah is also thankful for the amazing Roland Park faculty and their willingness to provide life advice, especially Upper School teachers David Brock, Ereni Malfa and Amy Barrett Frew, 1972. Speaking of Alisha Williams, she is incredibly excited to report that she will graduate from medical school in May, and shortly thereafter start her pediatric residency at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA.

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She can’t wait to hear what the rest of the class is up to and can’t believe that we’ll be celebrating our ten year anniversary next year!

Alisha sends her love to everyone. A little farther north, Julie Smyth is a social worker at the public defender’s office in Philadelphia.

Julie has plans to travel to Peru and Ecuador in May, which is very exciting because she has barely traveled since college! Julie reports that she hopes to move back to NYC within the next year to explore new career opportunities in social policy relating to criminal justice.

Elisa Prosperetti just finished her first year as

a history PhD student at Princeton University.

She is beginning her dissertation research this summer in London and West Africa. In New York City, Caley O’Neil is finishing her first of business school at NYU Stern and recently got engaged! Stephanie Gisriel also lives in NYC and was recently promoted to National account manager at Baron Funds.

Amy Kiyota is finishing up her master’s degree in economics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University and eager to begin working in education policy. Up north, Emily Gates is working toward her master’s in transportation planning and engineering at MIT in Cambridge, MA. She’s studying how to design walkable cities and improve public transit service! Jennifer Graillot Rivard, who lives in Rochester, reports that life as a new mom has been amazing. Her son, Logan Philippe Rivard, is now six months old and is growing-up super fast! Jennifer is still working at Shire Pharmaceuticals and loves life although she definitely misses her RPCS girls!

Jewel Jennings-Wright recently graduated from law school and grad school and passed the Michigan bar on the first go! She plans to sit for the Maryland bar next. Jewel is working for a private equity firm and living in Michigan where she survived the snowiest winter since the 1880s. Ameerah Brooks is also finishing grad school and will be graduating with her MBA in May. Ameerah also reports that she recently got engaged! In warmer climates, Erin Catzen is still living in Winston-Salem and was just promoted to director of operations of the Revenue Solution Division of IMG. Erin has also started doing CrossFit and competed in her first competition last winter. Olivia Myers is still living in Savannah, GA and works as a prenatal genetic counselor. She reports that

Members of the Class of 2005 Brittany Bland, Ameerah Brooks, Morgan Simmons, Breyana Hall and Alisha Williams

she really loves her job and feels lucky to have fallen into this career. Olivia also continues to help her mom with their clothing store. As for me, Erin Durbin, I am still living in New Orleans with my boyfriend, Britton Nyce (Gilman 2005) and our dog, Brewer. I was recently promoted to senior account executive at Peter Mayer Advertising. In our free time, we enjoy going to music festivals and the dog park. Though we’ve loved our time in NOLA, we plan to move to California in the near future, as well as (unbeknownst to Britton) adopting many, many more dogs. Can’t wait to see all of you next year for our 10th Reunion!

Class of 2006

Join us for a morning of fun and entertainment

Little Bear Jamboree Alumnae Weekend Saturday, October 11th 10:00 am to 11:00 pm Bring your kids, grandchildren and family.

Children’s entertainment including a magician, face painting and activities on the RPCS Lower School Playground

Lisa Diver DiverL@rpcs.org Greetings Class of 2006! I know it may seem like I say this every year, but I am once again amazed at all of the wonderful things that have occurred in our lives throughout the past year. From graduations, to promotions, engagements and weddings, we all seem to have something to celebrate this year! It is a great pleasure to share with you our class notes for 2014. Emily Gaines will be opening a restaurant in DC this fall called, hälsa. In an article published by Wework on April 17, Emily is launching this restaurant because she, “firmly believes that ‘fast’ and ‘nutritious’ don’t have to be mutually exclusive.” Caroline Galvez moved back to Baltimore this past November and has enjoyed the opportunity to spend time with RPCS classmates.

This summer, she will take courses at MICA in their professional development department hoping to bolster her experience in design programs.

This past winter, she completed her first illustration project and hopes to finalize creating her own design brand.

Brooke Christofferson Gill got married last June to her husband, Misha Gill. Following their wedding, they traveled to Croatia for their honeymoon.

Brooke writes: We’re still in Alexandria, VA (we get to see Jane a lot!) and I’m still working for GSA. I am getting my MBA part time from GWU and started this past fall. We’re traveling to Belgium and the Netherlands to visit Misha’s family; his mom is from Belgium, so we’re going to see his extended family. Cate Goytisolo has now switched roles at Under Armour working as the marketing coordinator for women’s brand marketing for apparel and footwear. Among other things in her role, Cate serves as a liaison between her team and the merchandising, retail, account and

Light refreshments served

Tours of the School and the RPCS Athletic Complex available

international teams in management of all projects. She also leads her team in putting outfits together for seasonal photo shoots. She most recently traveled to Los Angeles for a photo shoot, which will start appearing in stores on July 1, 2014. She encourages everyone to keep a lookout for a mass media campaign launching in August centered around Under Armour women. Along with Laura Keenan and Daniella Faust, Cate will serve as a bridesmaid in Anna Scanlan’s June 7, 2014 wedding. After spending three years in San Diego working for Adrenaline Lacrosse, Hanley Heubeck is now back home in Baltimore working as a program manager at TESSCO. Before moving home, Hanley made quick trips to the Outer Banks as well as Hawaii. She writes: Although I probably picked the worst winter to move home, I am extremely grateful to have been home to attend all of the events for Anna Scanlan’s wedding.

After spending the last three years working on local film and television productions, including House of Cards, VEEP and Captain America, Jane Hollon is moving to Los Angeles in the fall to pursue her master’s in producing at the

American Film Institute Conservatory. Peale Iglehart currently lives outside of Philadelphia and teaches first grade at a charter school in North Philly. This summer she will begin working towards a master’s as a reading specialist. Peale is engaged to Edward Carr and they will get married in September! She says, “things are really busy right now, but I feel so lucky.” Laura Keenan continues to love her job working on the health team at Edelman Public Relations in Washington, DC. She is able to hang out with several RPCS classmates (Ann Margaret Millspaugh, Emily Gaines, Cassie Mathias, and Chelsea Kirk) and often sees classmates when home in Baltimore. This fall, Laura ran the Baltimore half marathon along with Daniella Faust for the Every Yard for Yeardley team. Lauren Kelly has spent the entire year living in London where she has worked as an HR specialist in banking at UBS. She is also taking post-grad classes in international business at St. Mary’s University of Twickenham. Her work-study program is called the Mountbatten Institute which brings young professional internationals to London.

She writes: Since moving to London in August

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was my first time out of the U.S., I had a lot of ground I wanted to cover. In that time, I’ve had the privilege of traveling to 25 cities in 16 countries which is insane to even think about.

So I’ve been really lucky to be able to do that while also working full time and taking classes.

It’s hectic but totally worth it. Despite not being in the U.S., Lauren has still been able to connect with other RPCS classmates including Abbie Mitchell, Rima Zeitouneh and Cathy Hebert, 2008. Patty Kelly has spent much of the last year traveling! In September, she visited her sister Lauren Kelly in London. After a few days of exploring the city, they traveled together to Prague. When Lauren needed to get back to London for work, Patty continued her adventures, and traveled with seven friends from Baltimore to visit Paris. More recently, Patty once again traveled across the pond to backpack with Lauren for nine days. Beginning in Frankfurt, they ended their journey in Dublin. She writes: Through six cities within four countries we took: four planes, three trains, seven buses, two trams and two ferries.

Trip highlights include visiting Dusseldorf, Glasgow and Amsterdam. Perhaps the most exciting part of the trip occurred when they reunited with Abbie Mitchell in Edinburg.

Chelsea Kirk writes: I’m still in DC and teaching at Maya Angelou Academy, which is a charter school located inside of New Beginnings Youth Development Center, DC’s secure, all male juvenile detention center. I teach ninth through 12th grade English, I am our Instructional Coach and I also coach our basketball team! I live in DC with a friend from Dartmouth and still see a lot of the RPCS DC crew! Eunice Kwon completed her first year of law school at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore. Since May, Eunice has been interning at the Baltimore City Circuit Court with Judge Jeannie Hong in the felony division.

Liza Lacy has made a big transition, moving to Thailand where she will spend the next year teaching English and traveling throughout South East Asia. Our sympathy to Liza and her family following the recent death of her mother Mary Susemihl Lacy, 1976 this May. Loretta Lee is now in her third year working at Ralph Lauren where she is a manager in sweater production. She is currently in the process of launching a new line in women’s wear called, Women’s Polo, which will appear this fall. After graduating from Harvard Law School last spring and completing the Maryland Bar exam, Cassie Mathias, now works as an associate in the special matters and government investigations practice group in Kind & Spalding’s DC office. She writes: My practice primarily focuses on litigation related to pharmaceuticals, medical device and

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Sisters Kelsey Twist Schroeder, 2001 and Mallory Twist, 2006 with Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993

healthcare investigations. With her usual spunk and candor, Sarah Morehead writes: I am so devastated because I have nothing interesting or funny to share. I am a boring 26 year old with a house, a dog and a boyfriend.

Over the winter, our roof started leaking and we had to get it completely replaced, so that is really my only news. In December I was able to go to the RPCS Christmas program with Elizabeth Robertson (Lisa Diver did an amazing job, by the way). It was great to catch up with Lisa, Annie Seibert, Kathryn Hampton, Justine Li and Eunice Kwon at the Alumnae Holiday (crab dip) Reception afterwards.

Abbie Mitchell is currently finishing up her final year working at Fettes College. Following graduation, she is looking forward to crossing a trip off of her bucket list as she travels to Croatia. This August, Abbie will also be spending three weeks home in Baltimore and hopes to catch up with lots of our classmates.

In September, she will begin a postgraduate master’s at the University of Aberdeen in Museum Studies. Meghan Murphy finished her PhD in biomedical engineering in early May and will be taking a position with VSP Global’s technology and design think tank in midtown Sacramento. While home over Christmas, she had the privilege of catching up with Annie Seibert and Courtney Weir.

Additionally, this year her niece, Bailey, turned one and nephew, Teddy, will be turning four, daughter and son of Carla Bailey Murphy, 1993! Davina Passeri reports: I recently passed my candidacy exam and am entering the final year of my PhD in civil engineering at the University of Central Florida. My dissertation is on the tidal hydrodynamic response to sea

level rise and morphological changes in fluvial, marine and mixed estuary systems in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. I have published a few journal articles and am working on more as I write my dissertation. I also am pursing a Professional Certificate in management through online classes from the University of Notre Dame. This past year, I presented my research at international conferences in San Diego and San Francisco, and this fall I will be presenting at a conference in Hamburg, Germany. In February, I had dinner with Mrs. Brune and some of the RPCS employees while they were in Orlando for a conference. It was great to reunite with the RPCS family after being away from Baltimore for so long. I also saw Gabi Romanoski while she was vacationing in St. Petersburg, FL in March. It was the first time we had seen each other in five years, but it felt like no time had passed at all. I am hoping to visit Baltimore for a few days this summer. Megan Pendleton is currently living in post grad bliss, having recently graduated with a master’s of education in college student affairs administration from the University of Georgia. Always on the move, Kendall Poling writes: I left Colorado after living there for the past four years (minus the quick trip to Afghanistan). I am attending training in Sierra Vista, AZ until the end of June and then moving to Fort Campbell, KY. I am very excited for the new adventures and if anyone finds themselves an hour west of Nashville in Clarksville, TN they have a place to stay. I will be home right before the move for Jane Dewire’s wedding for which I am even more excited! Last year, I was able to make it home for Brooke’s wedding which was a lovely

event! Elizabeth Robertson had a very exciting spring getting engaged to Evan Chriss (Gilman, 2004). In August, she will begin a two year master’s of science in nursing at the University of Maryland School of Nursing where she will pursue her clinical nurse leader degree. Gabi Romanoski, continues to pursue her master’s in social work from the University of Maryland and anticipates graduating next spring. She still lives in Mount Vernon and spends a lot of time with Courtney Weir, Molly Ricely and Kathryn Werthman. Barb Seaman writes: I still live in New York City (about four years now!), but switched jobs this past year to work as a campus recruiter in the HR division at Jefferies LLC. I have really enjoyed my new role as I help college and MBA students pursue their investment banking careers. In my free time, I love exploring everything the city has to offer - from Broadway musicals to fitness classes to summer league lacrosse teams; I am always on the move. I look forward to celebrating all of the exciting milestones over the next few years with my 2006 classmates! This May, Annie Seibert graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a MA in international relations and economics. Annie continues to live in Washington, DC working in the field of counterterrorism.

Barrett Neale Scott continues to work as managing editor at PressBox. This November, her company expanded to add a website focused on Washington, DC sports, as well as their existing website, monthly newspaper and weekly TV show covering Baltimore sports.

Theresa Statkiewicz graduated from the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing program last spring. She is currently working as a nurse in the SICU at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Theresa also completed her second half marathon in Disney last January. Joanna Taylor writes: I’m still working downtown at Walker & Dunlop and living in lovely Charles Village. In other news, I recently started serving on the board of an organization called Alternative Directions (ADI), which provides legal, health, housing, education and employment services to men and women exiting prison. Over the summer, I will be interviewing several of the women who have gone through ADI’s programs in order to develop a database that can be used to evaluate the organization’s success. Also, I may be running the half marathon in October to raise money for them (yikes!). All in all, gearing up for a super busy, but exciting year! Mallory Twist writes: I am still working at Architectural Ceramics Inc. in Canton. For the first time ever, I have had the opportunity to work with a fellow RPCS graduate, Emily Turner, 2009.

Emily is a designer at Brown Craig Turner. It is

always nice to have the RPCS connection. I am also co-owner and event coordinator of A Taste of Painting. At A Taste of Painting, we host private painting parties in the Baltimore area. Elizabeth Wahbe has been promoted to an outside sales rep with Sherwin-Williams and is enjoying her new position. Now as a Delaware homeowner, she is very happy with her Chihuahua, Coco. Courtney Weir writes: I am still working for DSM Nutritional Products LLC working in their Infant Nutrition Division and am about to begin my final year of my MBA program at Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business. As for me, Lisa Diver, this has been another busy, but exciting year, as I complete my second year of teaching at RPCS. Throughout the year, it was wonderful to see so many of you as you traveled back to Baltimore, and even visited the School. For Halloween, several Upper School teachers, who are also alums, and I donned our RPCS uniforms once again. There were definitely lots of confused students. This spring, I traveled to NYC, where I accompanied the Semiquavers as they performed at Carnegie Hall.

Throughout the year, I have especially enjoyed hanging out with RPCS teachers, Liz Hamilton, 2008 and Caroline Riina, 2008. This summer, I will once again serve as the music director for the Young Actors Theatre summer camp at McDonogh School. Following this, I am excited to spend two weeks traveling around Alaska. Maybe this will be the year that I get over my fear of whales?! Perhaps the craziest adventure will take place next January, as I have signed up to run my first full marathon!

While I have run several half marathons in the past, I predict lots of running is in store for my summer.

Class of 2007 Caroline Martinet martinetc11@gmail.com Members of the Class of 2007 have been going through a lot of changes this year, perhaps fueled by the reality that is the quarter-life crisis? Despite having to face this hard truth, it seems as though we are all battling through beautifully. Find the connections for our indubitably wonderful class below. Emily Adams is still living in San Francisco and enjoying it very much. She has one more year left in her graduate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in integral counseling. As part of her therapist internship for this year she will begin seeing clients in the fall! She loves working as a massage

therapist/bodyworker in the Mission District.

Emily (Emmy) Bergbower is a third year PhD candidate in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She finished the master’s portion of her degree program last spring. er dissertation research focuses on cystic fibrosis. Milly Brugger is getting her master’s at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing to be a pediatric primary care nurse practitioner. In her spare time she plays with her two dogs, Cole and Addie, who are notorious in her neighborhood. Hanley Casey enjoys working for the Arts Insurance Program at Maury, Donnelly, & Parr, Inc. as the head of their film program. She has since been able to travel more, going to the Sundance Film Festival this past January. She lives in Federal Hill and has become a regular at Porters Pub, with Milly and Coach Kevin. Rebecca Clark moved back to Baltimore this year from Louisiana. She is currently teaching special education at KIPP Harmony Academy in Baltimore City. She is working on her master’s from Johns Hopkins University in Special Education. She is looking forward to warmer weather and hopes to make a trip to Israel this summer. Jaime Crawford is still working for GP Strategies and she couldn’t be happier. She is now onto her second semester of graduate school, and she hopes to obtain her master’s in technology management/information systems by winter 2015. Jaime was recently elected President of the Northern Maryland ZTA Alumnae group and is excited to be working with some fantastic ladies on all of their upcoming events and fundraisers. She (finally) passed all of her certifications and tests to start the Dive Masters’ program at PADI in hopes of becoming an Instructor/Master Instructor. Zoe Dolan loves living in New York. After spending two years in merchandising at Moda Operandi she quit this past fall to begin working for the Onassis Foundation (USA). She is specifically working on a catalog and an art exhibition about the afterlife in ancient Greece. The art exhibition is set to open in their Midtown gallery space in spring 2015 and will feature loaned ancient artifacts, including lots of vases and sculptures, from various European and American museums. Annabel Franz is in a clinical psychology master’s program in North Carolina, which she says has been the biggest challenge of her life but she loves it!

She will be working at the local hospital lab in Charleston conducting alcohol dependency research during her summer break. Carrie Gamper quit her amazing job with STX to head back to school and pursue a master’s in entrepreneurship at Durham University in Durham, England. Despite crossing the Atlantic, she has not outrun lacrosse and is again a collegiate athlete pursuing a national

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championship with the Durham Palatinates.

She has been able to travel to Copenhagen, London, Italy, Ireland and Paris. She is looking forward to seeing Suzie Mellinger and Kaylie Forner when they come visit her in June!

Kiley Gray graduated with an associate’s in culinary arts from Johnson & Wales in May 2013. This May, Kiley will graduate summa cum laude with a bachelor’s in food service management with concentrations in special event management and on-site food service management. She is a member of the National Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society. Hillary Gross graduated in May from American University with her master’s in political science.

She is still living in Washington, DC and was recently promoted to Legislative Assistant for Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-OH). In her new position she handles a small portfolio of legislative issues for the Congressman and all constituent correspondence. Miller Hughes is still living in New York City in the West Village and works as a merchandise planner at Coach for women’s accessories. Emily Palmer is still living in New York City, in Hell’s Kitchen, plowing through tourists on the weekends and seeing more shows than she should. She’s currently working at an indie music record label, Two Tomatoes Records, and is loving it! The label produces Laurie Berkner’s music, so while she’s no longer nannying, she’s still working with kids in some capacity. She’s also recording a lot more than she used to and is planning on doing some open mic shows in the near future. Aside from that, she’s been taking acting improv, musical improv and sketch comedy classes at the Peoples Improv Theater and Magnet Theater. Allegra Romita is living in Park Slope in New York City.

This past September she started her master’s in dance education at New York University.

She left her bookkeeping job at the American Center for the Alexander Technique to live her dream of making a living by teaching yoga and dancing. She is teaching yoga at Prana Power Yoga and at NYSC and is dancing with Sydnie Mosley’s, 2003 dance company - Sydnie L. Mosley Dances. Molly Sober moved out of Manhattan and over to Brooklyn Heights and is loving it. After two years, she left her job at the art advisory firm to go to Macys. com. She is almost finished with their executive development program and has been training with the handbag planning team. She says it has been very interesting learning the ins and outs of e-commerce and retail. Megan Trenery works for the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Children’s National Medical Center. She has started volunteering for RPCS (so be nice to her if she calls you or sends you a note about supporting the annual fund!). She is looking forward to traveling back to Belgium this fall for her study abroad five-year reunion. Megan is still living with me, Caroline Martinet, in Woodley Park in Washington, DC. Last year we ran the Baltimore Half Marathon for the One Love Foundation and we are so thrilled that we have been able to raise over $2,200 for the Foundation over the past two years. We are continuing the tradition and plan on running the Baltimore Marathon in October for One Love.

I am still working at the Center for Strategic & International Studies as a program coordinator for the Transatlantic Media Network and the Williamsburg-CSIS Forum. The most exciting part of my job last year was assisting to put on a week-long conference on Egypt where we flew over high-profile Egyptian politicians, economists, academics and businessmen to discuss the future of Egypt just three months before the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi and his government.

Caroline Martinet, 2007, Kelly Martinet, 2009 and Megan Trenery, 2007

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Members of the Class of 2008 at their 5th Reunion Natalie Hazlehurst, Katie Reilly, Arlesa Hubbard, Ellen Franz and Kerry Weir

Class of 2008 5th Reunion Katie Riordan k.riordan517@gmail.com Caitlin Cantrell is still living in New York City and “living the dream!” This past October, Caitlin helped to open a new location of The Little Gym in New York’s affluent neighborhood of Tribeca. Caitlin is still dancing and performing with two different NYC based companies, Abarukas and Michael Susten & Company. Keep an eye out for her performances in NYC and this summer at Jacob’s Pillow! Tanaira Cullens is currently living in Baltimore County and is completing her master’s at Johns Hopkins in environmental science and policy with a concentration in ecological management. She has also reconnected with RPCS, as she also works with the Lower School After School Program. Liz Hamilton has returned to her RPCS roots, and is currently working as a substitute teacher for the Upper School, while also coaching JV field hockey and JV lacrosse. Natalie Hazlehurst is living in Canton with Ellen Franz, Catherine Baker and her cat, Mittens. She is working in the DC area as a proposal manager for a government IT contractor but is desperately looking for a job closer to Baltimore. Jennifer Hearn is currently living in Boston, working in commercial real estate. Cathy Hebert is in her second year as a school coaching officer with English Lacrosse and Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire, England. She has benefited from a teacher’s schedule, as she has had the opportunity to travel during her vacations to amazing places. At the end of this school year, Cathy will return to the U.S.A., where she hopes to join fellow classmates in NYC to pursue a job in marketing or public

relations. Arlesa Hubbard recently moved to Boston, MA where she is working on her first project as a quality engineer for a Miami based consulting firm. She is also in the process of getting an MS from Northeastern in Medical Device Regulatory Affairs. Andrea Lynch is living in New York City, and waking at an ad agency doing brand strategy and new product development. Whitney McClees has definitely been keeping herself busy, as she is working two jobs. Currently, she works for an online scientific research journal facilitating the peer review process as well as for an education non-profit in Connecticut as a marine science instructor. She also moved to Rhode Island to take a marine science instructor job. However, she will not be there for long, as she is moving to Oregon this fall for grad school, starting her PhD in marine bioinvasions ecology at Portland State University. Em Newman continues to pursue her career in sustainable design. She is volunteer coordinating green festivals and community supported agriculture at Spoutwood Farm CSA. She lives with grandfather and her two cats, Beaurugard Von Puffenstuff and Hoolihan McBiteyface, in Rockville, MD. Erin O’Donnell is living in Baltimore, MD and working at Anthropologie and Lemon and Lime Event Design. At Lemon and Lime Event Desgin, she is assisting in planning weddings and other special occasions.

At both jobs, she is able to utilize her creativity.

Maria Pasquini is currently living in Brooklyn, NY writing sketch comedy. Upon returning from teaching English in Bangkok, Thailand for a year, Elizabeth Piper has followed her dream of starting her own business designed to empower young women to unleash their greatest potential and live the lives they most desire. The prettygirl revolution was created to revolutionize beauty, confidence and worth

Laura Simanski, 2008 after running in the Baltimore Half Marathon.

In Nashville with classmates from 2008 Noelle Winicki, Jennifer Hearn, Savannah Bass, Bridget Hollon, Lucy Scholz and Courtney Kirk

through speaking, writing and coaching. So far Elizabeth has presented at RPCS, Friends School of Baltimore, St. Paul’s School for Girls and Loyola University. She is most grateful for her four years spent at RPCS where she learned to confidently pursue any dream she has. Lauren Pratt is currently at University of Illinois for veterinary school. Bailey Reeves has moved back east! She’s now working for CertainTeed Corporation in King of Prussia and living just outside of Philly in Manayunk.

In fall 2014 she’ll be starting an MBA program at Villanova with an expected graduation of 2016. She loves being back east closer to family and spending weekends in the city of Philly!

Kate Reilly is currently living in Chicago and working as an analyst with Aon Hewitt. She likes to spend her free time at the Art Institute of Chicago and listen to lectures hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Lucy Scholz is loving teaching high school math in New Orleans. She will continue teaching for a third year. Lucy stays busy as she is coaching the only youth lacrosse program in New Orleans, but also plans on starting a post collegiate club lacrosse program. This summer, Lucy is going to Peru to help Hollis Dvorkin, 2007 and Morgan Dvorkin’s, 2009 parents on a medical mission. Laura Simanski is currently in nursing school at West Chester University, and will hopefully be moving to Philadelphia in May. She plans to graduate in December

2015. When she is not in school, she is busy nannying and training for half marathons!

She has run three half marathons in the past year and hopes to complete a full marathon in the near future. Rebecca Taylor is still working as an employee at Meridian. There, she is a program associate, working to design and organize exchange programs for the U.S. Department of State’s International Volunteer Leadership Program (IVLP) which brings leaders from all over the world to the U.S. on exchange programs. Julia Tompkins is living in Raleigh, NC, as an official North Carolina resident. She recently started a new job as an account specialist at MaxPoint Express, a new technology company specializing in digital marketing. She loves her new career and is excited to be fulfilling her lifelong dream of being a “southern belle.” But don’t worry, she will always be a Baltimore girl at heart!

Kerry Weir is living in Baltimore, MD, and is working as an account executive at T, B & C advertising in Fells Point. Noelle Winicki is living in NYC. Recently, Noelle made the switch and is currently pursuing a career in residential real estate, doing sales and rentals all over Manhattan. And I, Katie Riordan, am still living in New York City and am the advertising coordinator at Marie Claire magazine, working with fellow alumna, Lulu Zeitouneh, 2001.

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Class of 2009 Dani Makia dem5aj@virginia.edu Mackenzie Cooke mcooke3@elon.edu It’s hard to believe that most of us have graduated from college and have entered the real world. I think we can all agree that Roland Park prepared us in more ways than we could have ever imagined. Continue reading to find out more about what everyone has been doing!

After graduating on the Dean’s List from Muhlenberg College, Jen Arman moved back to Baltimore. She is now a fifth grade teacher at Baltimore Highlands Elementary School in Baltimore County. She will shortly be pursuing her master’s in education, and she is extremely excited to be back in Maryland! Ashley Cahill is currently teaching fourth grade reading and fifth grade math at a Baltimore County public school, Victory Villa Elementary School. She coached Middle School lacrosse at Roland Park this spring, and was excited to have the opportunity to coach at her alma mater with some of her former coaches and teammates.

Mackenzie Cooke graduated magna cum laude from Elon University with a major in human services studies and minors in leadership studies and sociology. She is currently living in Washington, DC where she works as a family counselor at Sasha Bruce Youthwork. Sasha Bruce is the only crisis shelter for youth in DC. At Sasha Bruce, Mackenzie provides individual counseling, family counseling and case management. She also leads both educational and therapeutic groups for young people ages 12-17. In the near future, Mackenzie plans to go back to school to get her master’s in social work. Miriam Goldstein is living in Ann Arbor, working on her first year of a PhD program in clinical psychology at Eastern Michigan University. Ashley Grebow graduated from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in May 2013 with a bachelor’s in marketing.

She is now a Research Associate at CoStar Group in Washington, DC. Melanie Grebow graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s business school in May 2013. She graduated with a major in finance and minor in Spanish. Melanie moved to Chicago, IL in July 2013, where she works full time as a consultant for Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services. In her free time, she enjoys wandering through Chicago and trying new places, meeting new people and running.

Nealy Harnsberger writes: Things are going well on my end. I’ve been at my job at JP

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Morgan in Delaware for about a year. I’ve been busy running half marathons and finalizing my plans for my Birgit Baldwin trip for May! While my job is going well in Delaware, I am hoping to move to NYC this summer or fall. Amanda Hirschfeld graduated from Villanova University with a double major in international business and management and a minor in Spanish. She is currently living in Baltimore working in International Sales Operations at Under Armour. She is also assisting the RPCS Upper School lacrosse program. Lindsay Katz graduated from Tufts University in May with degrees in psychology and child development having earned a spot on the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s AllAmerican Team. She is currently living in Cambridge, MA completing an AmeriCorps year serving in the Middle School Academy at Tenacity, a non-profit pathway program providing academic and tennis instruction to underserved youth in Boston with a focus on life skills. She plans on returning to school in hopes of obtaining her doctorate in clinical psychology. Courtney Kuhn graduated from Boston College with a BA in political science.

She will be attending the University of Maryland, Carey School of Law in the fall.

Soo Ah Lee is currently living in Korea and working on her portfolio for graduate school.

Since graduating from Northwestern and moving to Washington, DC in June, Frances Loucks has begun working as an analyst doing management consulting for Accenture Federal Services. She is currently working on a small strategy project, launching a new digital product for her client. She writes: Even though this winter is colder than normal, I am enjoying the warmth compared to Chicago! Dani Makia graduated from the University of Virginia last May, with a BA in government and a minor in English. Upon graduating, Dani moved to New York City, where she is working as a litigation paralegal for Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP. She is currently studying for the LSAT, with hopes of going to law school next fall. When she is not working and studying, Dani runs and volunteers with Back on My Feet, a non-profit organization that uses running as a means to empower those experiencing homelessness to make the necessary changes in their lives that will ultimately result in employment and independent living. Kelly Martinet graduated Cum Laude from Skidmore College last May, with a major in French and minors in arts administration, art history and dance. After graduation, Kelly worked as a contractor for the Smithsonian Institute’s Office of Advancement and for their Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. She is currently working in the special events

department of Georgetown University’s office of advancement. After a spending the fall semester studying theater in Moscow, Leah Osterman is back finishing her junior year at Yale. She plans to graduate next spring with a BA in Theater Studies, concentrating on directing. Angeline Paik works for Capital One as a finance rotational associate. She currently resides in Richmond, VA, but will be moving back up with Chicago for her next rotation. She’s incredibly excited to be heading back to what she considers her second home.

Julianne Payne will graduate from Johns Hopkins University with her MSE (master’s of science in engineering) in environmental engineering this spring. She hopes to pursue a career in consulting with a focus on site assessment and remediation.

Veronica Roppelt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in dance from DeSales University in May of 2013. She now lives in Orlando, FL and works for the Walt Disney Company as a full time attractions hostess in EPCOT. Veronica is also a Disney trainer and is able to teach and welcome new cast members to the Walt Disney Company. Sarah Saxon has recently graduated, cum laude, with a BS in civil engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently getting her MS in civil engineering - sustainable design and construction at Stanford University, and plans to graduate this summer. This term, she is in a course associated with the Project Based Learning Lab at Stanford, in which she is working on an interdisciplinary, geographically distributed design team. As part of the course, her team will complete the design and development phases of a “proposed” building (for the basis of this class) at the University of Puerto Rico campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The course is made up of architects, engineers, construction managers and life cycle financial managers from universities in countries such as Slovenia, Germany and Sweden. Meanwhile, she is looking forward to moving back to the east coast when she graduates, and working in the DC/Baltimore Metropolitan area. Riley Schamburg is currently working for Bozzuto Property Management Company in Annapolis, MD, but lives in DC. In August she is going to Bali, Indonesia to volunteer and teach children for three months. After graduating from the University of Southern California in May, Katy Sherman began working at the Fox Broadcasting Company as an Executive Apprentice, a new program, similar to the NBC Page Program. Four months into her apprenticeship, Katy was hired as an assistant in Comedy Development and gets to work on Fox’s new comedies (Brooklyn Nine, Enlisted, Dads and Surviving Jack) while also helping to

develop new projects for the 2014-2015 broadcast season. Emily Turner graduated in May 2013 from Elon University with a bachelor’s in studio art. She is in Baltimore working for an architecture firm as an interior designer. As you can see, the Class of 2009 has gone on to do a myriad of different things. We are comprised of classmates continuing their education, classmates who are teachers, engineers, analysts, consultants, counselors and a host of other professions. In just a matter of months, it will be five years since we graduated from RPCS. We can’t wait for our reunion! Until next time!

Class of 2010 Meg VanDeusen mcv.deusen@gmail.com Helen Yearley yearhb0@wfu.edu Jennifer Abrams graduated in May from Hobart and William Smith Colleges after completing an honors thesis in sociology.

She will spend the summer at HWS working as a research assistant in the Education Department. She looks forward to August when she will start her new job working as a research assistant at Child Trends in Bethesda, MD. Mahuhu Attenoukon can’t believe four years at Penn went by so fast, but she’s excited to move to Connecticut this summer to start a new job at Nielsen. Liza Barley graduated from Bucknell University and will be in DC next year working at Fannie Mae. Kalli Bouloubassis graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in materials science and engineering, and an additional degree

in biomedical engineering. She is getting her master’s in biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University this fall. Kallie Brennan graduated from the University of Richmond, where she enjoyed spending her senior year working on her thesis about the Parthenon frieze. She can’t wait to head to London once again in September, where she will be pursuing a master’s degree in classical art and archaeology at Royal Holloway. Meredith Callis was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, graduated from Washington College magna cum laude, was a part of the most winning lacrosse season for WAC women’s lacrosse and will pursue her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling at Johns Hopkins University. She will be live in downtown Baltimore and hopes to get a parttime job at Pickles Pub. Meredith Chasney graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a major in government and minors in art history and Spanish. Starting this fall she will be back in Madrid, Spain teaching English classes through the Spanish Ministry of Education’s “Auxiliares de Conversación” program. Drop her a line if you will be in Spain.

Amena Chaudhri graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University this past May. She plans to pursue her public relations career in the northern Virginia/DC area with hopes to eventually work in the nutrition and writing fields. Catherine Dougherty had an amazing last semester at Bucknell. She was inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society for economics, before graduating cum laude with a BS in interdisciplinary studies in economics and math. She is looking for an apartment in Arlington before starting work at PricewaterhouseCoopers in August. Jillian Downing graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with her BA in English and a minor in sustainability studies. She will be working for the Federal Deposit Insurance Company in Arlington, VA. Jennifer Fowler

Members of the Class of 2010 at Christmastime Kallie Parchman, Ellie deMuth, Helen Yearley and Meg VanDeusen

majored in art history and minored in marketing and architecture, graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with Honors. She was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority where she was heavily involved in the rush team and also Alpha Rho Chi, the national professional fraternity for architecture and the allied arts. She has accepted a job as a proposal coordinator at Grimm + Parker Architects in the DC area. Hanna Frank graduated from Loyola University Maryland this spring with a degree in business marketing. She looks forward to a packed summer full of all kinds of jobs and projects as she searches for a career for the fall. Courtney Hodge had a whirlwind final year at Georgetown University. Between leading a pre-professional dance company on campus to recruiting for an international nonprofit, to just enjoying DC, senior year was very eventful. Courtney is very excited to be attending Columbia University School of Law in the fall. Tamryn Holley graduated from Howard University as an English and political science double major, magna cum laude, as a new member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is weighing employment opportunities with Milbank, Tweed, and Davis Polk law firms in New York City. Anisha Khandelwal will be graduating from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in December 2014 with a dual BA degree in psychology and health administration and policy, and a minor in management of aging services. She will continue working for the Division of Provider Information Planning & Development, a division of the Provider Communications Group at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Morgan Lambert and her lacrosse team at High Point won the Big South Conference championships for the second year in a row and made it to the NCAA tournament. After the summer ends, she hopes to move back to North Carolina and pursue a career in advertising and public relations. Kelsey Lynch graduated from Cornell University with a major in policy analysis and management and a minor in business. She will move to New York City to work as an analyst for a marketing consulting agency. Cameron McClees is leaving sunny Southern California to head back to Baltimore to start a job with PayPal as a software engineer. Carroll Neale graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in political philosophy, policy and law. She will spend two years working as a paralegal at Hogan Lovells’ DC office before attending law school. Maya Panlilio shares: I am a junior at NYU, majoring in studio art with a concentration in oil painting. In the past four years I’ve made the move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, studied in Berlin, and absolutely loved exploring NYC. For the moment I’m on break from school, slinging coffee and slicing

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cake at Baked, in Brooklyn - which I love, but I’m looking forward to getting back to school.

Kallie Parchman graduated from Yale magna cum laude. She received the Yale Athletics’ Molly Meyer Humanitarian Award and was named to the IWLCA Division I Academic Honor Roll for lacrosse. She is excited to move to New York City to work for Morgan Stanley. Sydney Rogers graduated from NYU this May and is working on her fashion label Sydney Rogers. She recently launched her line of handbags that will soon be sold in Barney’s. Sage Schaftel graduated from Pitzer College in May, having double majored in environmental analysis and anthropology. She will be interning at the Colorado Governor’s Office this summer and doing research in Rwanda and Uganda. Caroline Thomsen graduated from Georgia Tech in May with a business administration degree, concentrating in finance. She is moving to Wilmington, DE in July to start work at J.P. Morgan Chase in the Corporate Analyst Development Program.

She will be doing six month rotations over two years moving through different lines of business and different operational business functions. Meg VanDeusen graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with distinction in her double majors: Women and gender studies and anthropology. She is returning to Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project, the school in India where she taught three years ago, as their On Sight Administrator for the rest of 2014. Meg will then move to Malaysia to teach English on a Fulbright scholarship from January to November of 2015. Helen Yearley graduated from Wake Forest University summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BS in health and exercise science with Honors as well as minors in biology and psychology. She has started working at Twin City Pediatrics in WinstonSalem, NC as a medical assistant and is loving the experience so far.

Class of 2011 Sally Tucker sally.tucker@furman.edu Haley Venick venick@email.sc.edu Jodi Askew is studying sustainability at the Danish institute for study abroad for a semester and is staying in Copenhagen until August to work at the University of Copenhagen.

Molly Blondell is majoring in environmental studies and political science at the University

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of Chicago. She is an RA for the College Housing Office, a Volunteer Health Educator for Peer Health Exchange and a member of the Executive Committee for MUNUC, UChicago’s high school Model UN conference.

However, her greatest life accomplishment thus far has been her creation of an online Snapchat “Art” Gallery in which she glorifies her fingerpainting skills for the world to see. Alexandra Day writes: I’m currently a junior at Wellesley College, where I’m majoring in physics and minoring in math. I’ve been very busy in the past year – I was an intern at the National Institute of Standards and Technology last summer and since then I’ve presented my research at the North American Particle Accelerator Conference and the American Physical Society April meeting. On campus, I’m in charge of the Wellesley College Society of Physics Students and I can often be found in one of the labs or in the physics lounge.

I’m one of the 2014 Fellows in the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, which is a selective interdisciplinary leadership program for Wellesley students. I’m also taking an upper level physics elective at MIT and am working on an interdisciplinary research project that studies science majors at liberal arts colleges. I enjoyed meeting up with RPCS friends at the Boston Regional Reunion in November, and hope to return to RPCS when I’m back in town. Daniela Eppler went to Nepal last summer to volunteer for a health care program and worked with disabled children and their families. She got into an accelerated master’s program for public policy that she will start in the fall with an aim to eventually get into health policy and public health. Her lacrosse team made it into the final four. Daniela is going to Kenya this summer for another health care trip. Samone Ijoma is a proud spring 2014 initiate of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Mu Delta Chapter. Samone also serves as the vice president of the National Council of Negro Women, George Washington University Section. In addition, she has served on the executive board of the Black Women’s Forum at GW for the last two years and next year, she will be acting as the President of BWF for the 2014-2015 academic year. Samone is a 2014-2015 Sidley Pre-law Scholar - a program that seeks to provide minority students with greater access to the legal profession through mentorship and financial assistance. In the future, Samone would like to pursue a career in civil rights or entertainment law. This summer, Samone will be interning with a nonprofit management organization in DC. Regan Kaestner is at Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA. She is a sports medicine major with a concentration in pre-physician’s assistant studies. Regan studied abroad in Ireland for

Erin O’Donnell, 2008, Niki Steel, 2011, Faith Reid, 2011 and Emily Smith, 2008 panelists for the Upper School Transitions class

the J-term. She says it was so beautiful and an amazing experience. She is also a midfielder on the women’s lacrosse team. Allie Mason spent her fall semester studying abroad in London, England. She also became the vice president of her sorority’s chapter. Casey Merbler has had an incredible junior year. First semester was filled with activities with her sorority, working at the school rock wall and volunteer work. Over winter break she volunteered for the campaign “Brooke Lierman for Delegate”.

Second semester she studied abroad in Ecuador where she traveled to the Amazon, the Galápagos Islands, the coast and more, and fell in love with the country’s people and culture. Catherine Mitchell spent her spring semester in London, and it proved to be the best decision she’s ever made. Julia Palmer spent the fall semester studying abroad in Rome, Italy where she studied media in the Italian culture.

She traveled to several destinations including the Amalfi Coast, Paris, Tuscany and Florence.

Zoe Jack, who also studied abroad this year, was able to visit her in Rome for a weekend.

Upon returning to America, Julia completed her junior year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and is looking forward to her senior year. Ady Pié is finishing her junior year at Emerson College as a film production major and art history minor. With a job at Lyric Stage Boston and an internship with Pulse Media, her life is hectic as always. She plans to spend her final semester at Emerson’s LA campus as she has been accepted into the school’s selective internship program. Megan Riedel is a junior at the University of South Carolina and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She is a member of the Sorority Council’s recruitment staff for 2014 fall recruitment. She is pursuing a pre-medical track and will be traveling to Tanzania this summer for two weeks with the

Gapmedics program to help at hospitals in the city of Iringa. Patricia Statkiewicz just finished her junior year at Muhlenberg College working towards a dance major with a business minor.

In her spare time, she has performed in faculty and student choreographed concerts and teaches dance for children.Cameron Steadley studied abroad in Florence, Italy during the fall semester and is excited to start her final semester at High Point University this fall.

Daisy Strudwick is a journalism major at Ole Miss, where she is a member of the sorority Chi Omega. She spent the fall semester interning for Congressman Sarbanes in DC. Haley Venick had an amazing junior year at the University of South Carolina! In the fall, she served as New Member Coordinator to a pledge class of 120 girls. This was both a wonderful and challenging experience. She continues to pursue her degree in elementary education. This past spring she completed her first internship in a second grade classroom.

This prepared her to take on student teaching this coming fall and the following spring. This summer, Haley will be studying abroad in Rome for a month and is very excited about this adventure.

Class of 2012 Chelsea Roberts crober15@scmail.spelman.edu Kelsey Dwyer ked87@georgetown.edu Katherine Barley is enjoying her time at Furman University where she is majoring in health sciences and minoring in poverty studies. She serves as the philanthropy chair of her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, in order to fundraise for Relay for Life and the Ronald McDonald House Charities. She is also doing research for LiveWell! Greenville, a city-

Chelsea Roberts, 2012 with Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College

Audrey Todd, 2012 with Janice Moore, Director of Libraries

wide coalition promoting a healthy lifestyle in schools, places or work and in churches.

Adaeze Alaeze-Dinma is a business accounting major at Virginia Commonwealth University and is working hard. Her basketball team won 22 games and lost 10 this season. She scored a career high 21 points against the University of Massachusetts. Meredith Birely just completed her second year at Duke University and loves it. After taking classes in almost every subject, she finally decided to design her own major; the first of its kind at Duke. She is now looking forward to studying abroad at the University College of London this fall, and exploring all that Europe has to offer. Molly Cantrell loves every second of her time at Bucknell University. She is majoring in civil engineering and minoring in dance, which is the perfect combination for her. She is spending the summer at Bucknell as she was accepted into the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management. Kelsey Dwyer interned with Congressman Ruppersberger during the fall semester while attending Georgetown University. This summer, she is working for Senator Manchin for a portion of the time and is looking forward to studying abroad starting in July in Auckland, New Zealand during the fall semester. Megan Fish is studying international business and management at Dickinson College. She runs on Dickinson’s varsity cross country and track and field teams. This summer she is interning for Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger in Baltimore, MD. Devon Hitt just completed her second year at the University of Pennsylvania with a major in public health and a minor in biology. This summer, she is working at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine conducting research and doing clinical work in the psychiatric field. Christa Reese declared her major this year in hospitality management and a minor in accounting. She is a member of

the Division I women’s lacrosse team at the University of Denver and won her conference championship on her team’s home field. She and her teammates also made it to the second round of NCAA’s for the second consecutive year. Christa enjoys the beautiful mountains and natural environment of Colorado when she is not studying or playing lacrosse. Chelsea Roberts is majoring in political science with a minor in public health and loves Spelman College. She teaches yoga in the museum of art and serves as fundraising chair of Habitat for Humanity. This summer she is studying abroad in Lisbon, Portugal. Before heading back to the states she is visiting her former exchange student Sophie, in England, whom she was paired with at RPCS in the eleventh grade. Once her European excursions end, Chelsea is interning as a financial analyst in the Commercial Banking office of Wells Fargo in Atlanta, GA. She hopes to combine her love of policy with business and economics in the future to make a difference in the world.

Katie Johnson had a great sophomore year and is looking forward to studying abroad in Oxford, England this summer. Bria Jones is excited about moving into her first apartment this summer. During this time she will be doing research in a lab to help produce a compound that will combat colon and prostate cancer.

Maddie Kaufman just completed her chemistry minor and plans to study abroad next spring either in the Galapagos or in Cape Town.

Megan Lavin is extremely active on campus at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, having leadership positions in the Newman Catholic Club, the Health Promotions Committee and the Day of Service Committee. She lived in the Pride Alliance theme house during her sophomore year, and plans to live in the house again for her junior year. Meredith Mansinne is working hard and loves Indiana University.

When she’s not in class, she is spending time with her Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters, exploring the local restaurant scene or working

Meredith Birely, 2012 and Meghan Fawcett, 2012 with Upper School history teacher Gail Rauch-Tilstra

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as a chair for Indiana’s Dance Marathon. This summer she will be interning at W. W. Grainger in Lake Forest, IL and she looks forward to studying abroad next spring in either London or Copenhagen. Laurel Meyer loves Bates and looks forward to studying abroad in Cork, Ireland for the fall semester. Serene Mirza did a lot of volunteer work this year by coaching fourth and fifth graders in basketball. She is also doing cognitive neuroscience research and shadowing pediatric orthopedic surgeons at Michigan hospital. Katie O’Hern is active in club swimming and Ambassadors, Villanova’s tour guide club. She is looking forward to studying abroad in Melbourne for the spring semester. Heather Oros had a very busy sophomore year. She joined the sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma and got inducted into the National Honor Society for psychology.

Heather plays on the club squash team, does research in the psych department, photographs for the school newspaper and teaches weekly yoga classes. Next spring, Heather intends to study abroad in Argentina. Dylan Otterbein is looking forward to interning with a gallery and citywide arts corporation in Los Angeles this summer. She is also looking forward to becoming the music director and vice president of her school’s radio station, WRMC 91.1FM.

Class of 2013 Catherine Crozier ckc3zb@virginia.edu Fannon Curtis fdc0002@tigermail.auburn.edu Lyndsey Miller millerl@uga.edu Christine Vaile chvaile@davidson.edu Abby Abrams just finished her first year at Ohio State University where she is studying strategic communications. She attended her first season of Big Ten football and basketball.

She looks forward to returning to Columbus in August and writing for the school newspaper next semester. Justina Bagger survived her first North Country winter at St. Lawrence University. She tried out for SLU’s nationally ranked equestrian team and earned a position on it. In addition, she has taken up a passion for ice hockey. She is contemplating pursuing a career writing science policy for the government. In July 2014 she will be moving to Vancouver, BC, but looks forwards to

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visiting in the future. Tina Canady just finished her freshman year at New York University where she is majoring in Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts. This year she joined the Slam Poetry Club, began tap and voice lessons, and attended 13 amazing Broadway shows. She is excited to work at her old summer camp this year as a counselor and acting teacher, but cannot wait to return to the Big Apple in the fall. Annie Cobb completed her freshman year as a food science major at Cornell University. She also competed in the 3rd Varsity Eight for the Cornell’s Women’s Rowing team and rushed Kappa Alpha Theta.

Briana Cohen loved her first year at Tulane University. She joined the A.B. Freeman Business School, was initiated into Sigma Delta Tau sorority, played for the club tennis team and made dean’s list. She had a fabulous Mardi Gras. Kim Credit just finished her first year at the University of Cincinnati where she majors in industrial design. This year she joined the industrial design society of America and daap tribunal. She hopes to make the best of her last non-academic summer by living at the beach with a few of her friends and is excited to start again in the fall. Catherine Crozier had a great first year at the University of Virginia. She is in the Engineering school, volunteers for a local daycare each week, and is a member of Chi Omega. Fannon Curtis is attends Auburn University and has decided to major in elementary education. While at Auburn she joined Delta Zeta and is on the films committee for university programs club, and made dean’s list. Elisabeth Fassas attends Johns Hopkins University and has decided to double major in molecular-cellular biology and anthropology.

While at Hopkins, she joined the Red Cross Club and Hellenic Students Association, works as a tutor for the Baltimore Tutorial Project and made the dean’s list. Rebecca Finney attends Wake Forest University, and during her first year she worked on project pumpkin and joined the Kappa Delta sorority. Maria Folgueras attends Duke University and is majoring in electrical and computer engineering. She made dean’s list for the Pratt School of Engineering both semesters. Since the start of freshman year, she has joined Zeta Tau Alpha and Blue Devils vs. Cancer, a club that fundraises for the Duke Cancer Center. In addition, she has become an E-Teamer, a small group of engineers that serves as an advisory board to all Pratt students, and a Freshman Advisory Counselor, thus serving as an accessible resource to incoming freshmen with their transition into college. Additionally, she tented for the Duke vs. UNC basketball game for four weeks this winter/spring and was elected to her sorority’s executive board for her sophomore year, on which she will serve as the

Class of 2013 Black Awareness Club members at the Graduates Party

Panhellenic Delegate for the Phi Chapter if ZTA. Caroline Foster attends Stevenson University and has decided to major in nursing.

While at Stevenson, she auditioned and joined the Dance Line, which performs with the Marching Band. Libby Grandy attends Furman University while considering business as a major with a minor in sociology. Courtney Grebow attends the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is a kinesiology major because she wants to become a physical therapist.

During her first year, she joined Alpha Epsilon Phi. Haley Hauser attends Bucknell University and has decided to major in neuroscience.

While at Bucknell she plays division I lacrosse and is on the club ski team and made honor roll. Anne Holly attends Connecticut College and plans to major in economics and minor in mathematics, Anne loves being able to compete on the Varsity Squash Team as well as get paid to work backstage for Theatre Services. Anne is also a member of the Peggotty Investment Club and Outdoors Club. She spreads awareness to reduce violence via Green Dot and works to create more inclusion and equality in Athletics via the You Can Play Project. Anne will be back at the Aloha Foundation for her twelfth summer at camp and will be leading seven-12 year old girls on hikes all across New England. Kate Howard attends The George Washington University where she has declared majors in both archaeology and american studies. She joined club cross-country until they decided a ten mile run on a Thursday was a “fun activity.”

She is also a proud member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Nikki Hudson attends Rutgers University and has decided to major in

psychology and minor in elementary education.

While at Rutgers she has played Division I soccer. Martha Isaacs finished a glorious first year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is majoring in philosophy and minoring in urban planning. Her favorite activities are Mock Trial, Students United for Reproductive Justice and teaching ESL to a Karen refugee family with the Community Refugee Partnership. She has also joined a coed literary and visual art society called St. Anthony Hall, where she loves to read, write poetry and use glitter. This summer, she will be working in New York City as a Gay Pride Intern with the Anti-Violence Project. If any member of the Class of 2013 is in the city this summer, she would love to catch up and offer croissants in her apartment. Lizzie Jaspan is at Marymount Manhattan Collage currently majoring in playwriting. During her freshman year she joined STAM, student theatre at Marymount. Beth Kelly attends Lynchburg College. She is majoring in business administration with a minor in Sports Management. While at LC she is on the women’s basketball team, which had a record season, but fell short in the semifinals. She also was a part of relay for life, and IM volleyball.

She is excited to go back to Lynchburg in the fall! Alaina Mandel had an awesome first year at Sewanee: The University of The South.

While at school, she did very well her first year competing with Sewanee swimming in the SAA conference. Additionally, she joined a local sorority, Theta Kappa Phi and is loving school in the South. Lyndsey Miller just finished her first year at the University of Georgia where she is majoring in elementary education. This year she has joined Alpha Delta Pi, attended her first season of SEC football and became a mentor for a Kindergartener at a nearby elementary school. Rachel Orlinsky attends

Courtney Grebow, 2013 and Fannon Curtis, 2013

Jennifer Newman, Tye Lewis, Jillian Brown, Caroline Foster, Anne Holly, Lizzie Jaspan and Claire Utermohle, members of the Class of 2013 at the Mother Daughter College Luncheon with Leigh Lowe, Director of College Counseling

the University of Pennsylvania and is premed with a probable major in health and societies.

She became a member of Sigma Delta Tau, joined Sparks Dance Company, served on the Jewish Life Liaison freshman committee and got involved in the Penn Israel Public Affairs Committee. She’s excited to be working as an early intervention instructor at a school for autistic kids this summer and to go back for her sophomore year of college. Sydney Ramer attends Skidmore College where she is majoring in history and English. Sarah Schrum is studying international and cultural studies and dance at the University of Tampa. She joined the Delta Zeta sorority first semester.

She is currently performing in the dance shows at the University of Tampa and hopes to join the Law Fraternity next year. Carly Smith attends New York University. This past year she interned at the corporate office of Shoshanna, a New York based clothing line.

She loved exploring the city and taking advantage of all it has to offer! Katherine Tutrone is attending Harvard College with a concentration in psychology. Not only is Katie on the varsity squash team, but she is also involved in Hasty Pudding, which is one of the Final Clubs at Harvard, Harvard Undergraduate Beekeeping Society and Kuumba Gospel Choir. She is also working as a sales associate at the Harvard Shop. While at Washington College, Claire Utermohle joined Alpha Chi Omega and was an active member in the French Club. She also made Dean’s List.

After realizing that Washington College was too small, she plans to transfer to University of Maryland this fall. She hopes to major in psychology with a minor in French and can’t wait to be a Terp. Christine Vaile finished up

an incredible first year at Davidson College in North Carolina. She plans on majoring in economics and minoring in mathematics.

While at Davidson, Christine was selected to become a tour guide for the college, joined and became the class representative for Connor House, one of the eating houses on campus, and became the president of Club Lacrosse.

Blair Warren finished her first year at Skidmore College and is the Arts & Entertainment editor for the Skidmore News. She is also involved in Fight Club, which works to solve conflict between students through mediation. She is focusing on the psychology and art history fields of study. Maggie Waxter played field hockey and lacrosse at Washington and Lee University this past year. She joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority in the winter and is undecided on her major. Maggie was very excited when her Washington and Lee women’s lacrosse team made it to the top 16 teams of the D3 NCAA tournament. Emma Wernecke finished her first year of college and made the dean’s list at DeSales University. She is continuing with the physician assistant program. Julia Wingate started at Dayton University in Dayton, OH and transferred to Miami University of Ohio. She is having a great time at Miami University of Ohio and could not have made a better choice to transfer there. She is majoring in business and media communications. She joined Delta Gamma and got a retail job at a sorority clothing store.

Although she is excited to be home the summer interning for a public relations firm and working for a restaurant, she can’t wait to return to Oxford, OH!

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New babies in the RPCS Community

Anne Zink Blachman, 1993 Alexander

Virginia Hodges Jeffery, 1994 Samantha Mason

Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, 1994 Carter Ellis

Elizabeth Rodgers Hawtin, 1995 Poppy

Melanie Donnelly O’Hare, 1996 Kit

Annie Pfaff MacFadyen, 1996 Zoe Ann

Lindsay Robin Saffer, 1997 Gretchen Katherine

Natalie Ciatola Dabrowski, 1998 Isabelle Susan “Belle”

Ellen Ginsberg Simon, 1996 Rachel Elizabeth

Carey Baugher Piraino, 1997 Charles Ficklen

Carol Dixon Croxton, 1998 Ryan

Laura Cohen Marsh, 1998 Benjamin

Aja Dorsey Jackson, 1998 Wyatt Lloyd

Meghan Ferguson Feld, 1998 Hunter Brantley

Caroline Windfelder Eachus, 1998 Davis William

Paige Kimos Odabashian 1998 Vivian Olivia

Adrianne Smith, 1999 Lana Rose

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Vanessa Bliss, 1994 August Everett

Gretchen Crook Bauer, 1999 Annabel Julia

Kathryn Scott Potter, 2001 Selah Grace

Sarah Levine Kornfield, 1999 Caleb Moses

Kathy Delauney Bosse, 2001 Bowen Patrick

Kirsten Stone Simpson, 2001 Reid

Katherine Owens Eckstein, 2001 Emmett

Kristen DeMarco Rickard, 2002 Lydia Noelle

Erin Lears Richardson, 2001 William Lears

Parissa Jahromi Ballard, 2002 Benson Gray

Babies Not Pictured 1993

1997

Jessica Wilson Noam

Nikki Sheridan Alworth Owen

1995

Katherine Ford Robbins Eliza Lauren

Kristen Cunningham Jones Jake Richard Sarah Sims Chesson, 2004 Carter Elizabeth

Ann French Howard, 2004 Findlay Ann “Fin”

1999

Sureena Nair Brais

Katie Swiss King Emmett Tinkam King

Linda Rothemund Wells Taylor

Natalka Burian Leonora

1996

2000

Beth Robinson DeVilliers David

Liz Levin Hlavek Scarlett

2001 Katie Crook Etoh Asher John

Becca Warfield Smith, 2004 Frederick Bruce V “Reid”

Sydnee Wilson, 2004 Raeford Barry

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Our sympathies to the families and friends of: 1931

1945

1955

Mardie Wood Robinson, Aunt of Ginny

Dolly Eisenbrandt Sener

Liz Church Marquez

Wood Delauney, 1964; Grandmother of Beth Jarrett Wilkinson, 1986

1/3/14

10/4/13

7/11/13

1947

Susan Howard Paules, Sister of Karen

Cassie Miles Baxter

1936

11/15/13

Estelle Hutchins Tulloss, Sister of Anne Hutchins Cresap, 1934; Jean Hutchins Ridgely, 1943 and Emma Lou Hutchins Russell, 1939 and Aunt of Mary Jean Ridgely Eig, 1971

Agnes Newton Hollerith

3/9/14

8/8/13

1937

1948

Jane Obrecht Emich, Sister of Betty

Katherine Lewis

Obrecht Ghezzie, 1936, Nancy Obrecht Victor, 1939, Doris Obrecht Voneiff, 1937; Aunt of Patty Voneiff Finney, 1964; Great Aunt of Liz Voneiff Paternotte, 1991

11/10/13

5/28/13 Patricia C. Goldsborough

Barbara Hoffhines Yellott

12/19/13

1949

Ellen Watson Eager, Sister of Susan Watson Crosland, 1944

3/16/14

Mary Blair Briscoe Shaw

4/15/12

1951

Delphine Stewart Barroll-Kelly, Sister of Ursula Stewart Koerber, 1945; Aunt of Gill Murray Koerber, 1980

Kit Willis Monroe, Cousin of Connie

10/27/13

4/23/14

Anne Lankford Hennighausen

1959 Ann Alexander Shutt, Sister of Page Shutt Tomlinson, 1953

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1943

Howard Hamer, 1949

3/14/14

Sparrow, 1964, Betty Norris Govatos, 1959 and Babs Norris Woodward, 1961

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1966 Betsy Pusey

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1976 Mary Susemihl Lacy, Sister of Janie Susemihl Vaughan, 1974; Mother of Erin Lacy Hollander, 2003, Alli Lacy Watts, 2005, Liza Lacy, 2006; Aunt of Betsy Griffin Petrelli, 2004

5/10/14 Anne Gayhardt Roth, Daughters, Jamie and Paris Roth attended RPCS

3/12/14

HA Rhoda M. Dorsey, RPCS Lifetime Trustee

5/10/14

9/22/13 Pat Griffith Jubb

2/8/13

Memorial Gifts may be made in the name of any of the Alumnae listed above.

For more information contact Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964, Director of Gift Planning and Assistant Director of Development at delauneyg@rpcs.org.

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Claire Evans, 2016 Ruby McAslan, 2018

Tatiana Egbunine, 2020

Paige Carey, 2015

Maddie Tannebaum, 2023

Riley Vasile, 2025

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RPCS PHILOSOPHY Roland Park Country School, a college preparatory school for girls, is dedicated to the intellectual, aesthetic, physical and moral development of its students. While maintaining high academic standards, the school upholds tradition and promotes innovation. The school encourages selfdiscipline, independence of thought, tenacity of purpose, creativity, and spiritual well-being. It also fosters personal integrity, respect for others, an appreciation of diversity, and a cooperative, resilient spirit.

Roland Park Country School values the friendly atmosphere of mutual trust inherent in an inclusive community. The school strives to instill in its students a lifelong love of learning as well as the motivation to look within and beyond themselves in order that they become responsible, contributing members and leaders of their communities.

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