Class notes

2010s

MANDY QUEEN ’11 , Clocktower Society member, and husband, Brent, welcomed a daughter, Etta Bessie Queen, in December.

ELIZABETH UNGER ’11 directed the wildlife-crime documentary Tigre Gente, which was acquired by the National Geographic Channel. The film premiered April 22 as part of the channel’s Earth Day lineup.

SHEENA VAUGHT ’ 11 , owner of Tower 5 Media, premiered her latest film, The Reason, in Dec. 2022.

KEVIN BRINKLEY ’ 12, ’ 18M is a product owner with Bank of America in Charlotte, NC.

REBA LEWIS ’ 12, ’ 21M is principal of Down East Middle and Smyrna Elementary in Smyrna, NC.

KATELYN SMITH ’ 12 joined Sweyer Property Management, one of Wilmington’s largest residential property management companies, as its new marketing manager.

KAYCE SMITH’S ’ 12, ’ 21E d. D. thesis was the foundation of the student voice policy, approved in Oct. 2022 by the New Hanover County Board of Education. The policy gives students a stronger voice at future board meetings.

SARAH ’13 AND KEITH ’13, ’17M FRASER welcomed their third child, Cole Steven Fraser, in February. Sarah and Keith are Clocktower Society members.

Cole Steven Fraser and family

JACOB KEOHANE ’14 stars in Condor’s Nest, a World War II thriller, which debuted in theaters and streaming platforms in January.

JOSHUA RO SENBERG ’14 , investment advisor representative and partner at Nabell Winslow Investments and Wealth Management in Wilmington, NC, received the NextGen Financial Services Award from The American College of Financial Services.

JESSICA BARN ETT ’15, ’18M , Rocky Point Elementary School teacher, was among approximately 40 elementary educators across the nation granted a Milken Educator Award during the 202223 school year. With the award came $25,000. She is Pender County Schools’ first recipient of the award, often hailed as the “Oscar of teaching.”

CONNER CRAWFORD ’16 joined Cape Fear Development, the development arm of Wilmington-based commercial real estate firm Cape Fear Commercial, as its first development manager.

MICHAEL HUTCHER SON ’16 , an associate attorney in Raleigh for Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, was named to Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” list. Inclusion is based on peer review, with fewer than four percent of the state’s lawyers making the annual edition.

LAURA KAUFFM AN ’16 joined FirstHealth Cardiology’s electrophysiology team in Pinehurst, NC.

LESLIE PUR VIS ’16 joined FirstHealth of the Carolinas in Carthage, NC.

LINDSA Y BARBOUR ’17 AND TYSON EMERY ’03 , two of the Wilmington-based Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage’s top producing agents and leaders of the Aspyre Realty Group, will lead Coldwell Banker’s expansion in Charlotte, NC.

ZACH LAYMON ’17 was promoted to sales manager by Rulmeca Corporation, the North American subsidiary of Rulmeca Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of conveyor rollers, motorized pulleys and other components.

MARISSA RODRIG UEZ ’17 was promoted to development financial analyst for Cape Fear Development, the development arm of Wilmington-based commercial real estate firm Cape Fear Commercial.

ZACH DRENNAN ’ 18 was named vice president of the North Brunswick Chamber of Commerce and received the Young Professional of the Year award.

ASHLEY G ARCIA ’18 earned a J.D. from Elon Law and will work at Patrick, Harper and Dixon, LLP in Hickory, NC.