C L A S S NOT E S
1989 Neal Wagner is now a computer scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the cyber systems and technology group.
1992 Donna Robinson Haynes launched a new company called Tina Vindum’s Outdoor Fitness Destinations.
1993 Jennifer Lee Macias and her husband, Ricardo Macias, had a son, Mark Alexander, on Aug. 25, 2013.
Marietta Marrelli Wright earned a doctoral degree from West Virginia University. She is currently an assistant professor at Waynesburg University.
1994
Jack Newton is the director of outbound product management for Oracle Cloud Social Platform.
1998 Mark Daniel King married Stephanie King on Sept. 28, 2013.
2000 Matthew Samuel Braxton and his wife, Lauren Henry Braxton, had a son named Henry Braxton, on Oct. 2, 2013.
Holly Spencer Bunting and Bryan Bunting welcomed a baby boy, Declan Nathaniel, on June 29, 2013.
2001 Tanner Gamble earned a doctor of education in educational leadership from UNC Greensboro in May 2013. He is the principal at Highcroft Drive Elementary in Cary.
Paige Richardson married
Aminda Byrd Katz and her
Charles Counts in October 2012. She works in the marketing department at Liberty University.
husband, Matt, had a baby girl, Lylah Eris Katz, on Sept. 1, 2013.
1995 Suzanne Lynn Cantando and her husband, Frank Kirschbaum, welcomed a baby girl, Honey Maxine, on Jan. 31. Suzanne is the executive director of Southeast BIO.
Greg Deal is the publisher and editor for the monthly lifestyle magazine Shorelines , which serves the Blueway and Lakeland regions in Georgia and South Carolina. He and his family reside in Greenwood, S.C.
David Wayne Kornegay and his wife, Jill Judd Kornegay, had a baby girl named Harper Jane in August 2013.
2002 Kevin Brinson was appointed director of Delaware Environmental Observing System, the statewide mesometeorological network for Delaware. He also is an associate state climatologist for Delaware.
Bobby Dean Nixon is an assistant professor of Spanish at Columbus State University. Sara Buss Rem and her husband welcomed their second child, Andrew Micah, in August 2013.
2003
second son, Klein Jameson Ballard, on Oct. 17, 2013.
Andrew Heath was recently appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory to be chairman of the North Carolina Industrial Commission.
Morgan Kelly is a science writer for Princeton University. Ken Saunders III is studying
2004 Amber Nycole Brown married Matt Brown on Oct. 19, 2013. Jennifer Coates is selfemployed at Virtual Tours NC, her real estate photography business. John Boyce Blackley Mitchell and Meredith Rymer Mitchell
toward a doctor of ministry in congregational development at Bexley-Seabury Seminary Federation.
welcomed a baby girl, Ava Elizabeth, on Jan. 31.
Calley Stevens Taylor started a new job as the director of student success and retention at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Penn.
Caroline Zidaroff Allison is
2005 the client service manager for Bayada Home Health Care.
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