A LU M N I N EWS Rayna Gellert ’98 has a new album, Old Light:
Songs from my Childhood & Other Gone Worlds, released on StorySound Records. Julie (Shaw) Hasfjord ’99 not only won Teacher of the Year at Julia Green Elementary but was also named teacher of the year for her entire school district in Nashville, Tenn. Elaine Brinkley ’99 is the executive director
of the Camp Fire USA Georgia Council and Amanda Styles ’00 is the board president. The council has several youth development programs, with the mission of building caring, confident youth and future leaders. Elaine and Amanda both attended Camp Toccoa, the flagship program, as children and worked there as counselors while in college.You can read more about their work at Camp Toccoa by turning to the story on page 24 of this magazine.
’00 Jordan Arico ’00 received her Early Childhood Education (ECE) degree from De Anza College in 2010 and now teaches at Marin Head Start in San Rafael, Calif. Her classroom is in the Homeward Bound Emergency Family Housing Center, where she works with the homeless. Andrew Mercurio ’04 and Bonita Mercurio ’02
married in 2006. They live in Swannanoa with their two-year-old daughter, Audrey. Andrew began working in December 2011 as the mail services manager at WWC. Bonita, an elementary school teacher, achieved National Board Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in 2008. She teaches second grade in McDowell County.
Ashley Rogers ’04 graduated in December 2011
with a MA in history and museum studies from Colorado State University and currently works as the assistant director of the Byers-Evans House Museum in Denver. She’s putting all of Phil Otterness’s teaching to good use!
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English in Kuwait.
Joey Vance ’05 and Amanda (Davis) Vance ’06
Amelia Taylor ’09 can be found in her holler
announce the birth of Frances Carol Wren Vance, born February 25, 2012. She was water born at home, weighing 7lbs 4oz and measuring 21.5 inches.
William Lyons ’07 and Marie Williamson ’07 own
and work on Bluebird Farm in Morganton.
Casey Gish ’07 and Allie Welsh ’07 have been living in Seattle while Casey completed his masters in environmental engineering. He graduated in June and is excited to be working for Fremont Brewing Company. Allie works for Whole Foods as a beer buyer. Dookles is doing just fine. Katie Kuehl ’07 graduated from the University
of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and plans to pursue a career in shelter medicine. She is a founding board member for WisCARES, a non-profit organization that aims to improve accessibility to pet care and promote zoonosis prevention for clients of the AIDS Network of Wisconsin.
Brianna Quick ’07, administrative assistant in Student Life, said goodbye to Warren Wilson College to attend Harvard Divinity School. Her husband, Joel Quick ’05, is also headed to Boston to attend law school at Northeastern University. Martha Eberle ’07 finished the landscape architecture program at N.C. State and moved to Madison, Wis., where she has a position with a design firm. Lora Hawkins ’09 received her Master of Arts in Teaching at Brown University and is teaching
in East Tennessee growing food and living the dream. You can reach her at amelialetgo@gmail. com.
’10s Lora Moon ’11 studies landscape literature in the English graduate program at the University of Toronto. She received the Junior Fellowship at Massey College and was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship. Patrick Sweatt ’11 is the faculty assistant/farm manager for Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vt. Ilona Carlson ’12 attended the National
Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Southeast Utah, where she backpacked the Gravel, Long and Cheesebox canyons, kayaked the Green River through Desolation Canyon, rock climbed the House Range, and learned horseback riding at Three Peaks. Over the summer she worked on a sustainable farm in nearby Moab, Utah.
Christian Diaz ’12 works for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights in Chicago. A New Americans Democracy Project Fellow, he is working with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, which is nationally recognized for fighting poverty and alleviating the deteriorating public schools in the area. Christian would like to build an infrastructure for civic engagement in his community and hopes to collaborate with other WWC alumni near Chicago. Contact him at cdiaz@icirr.org.
Lindsay Renbaum ’05 is a postdoctoral fellow
in the chemistry department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She was selected to participate in a Climate Change Symposium funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Christina L. Vair ’05 received her doctorate
in clinical psychology with an emphasis in geropsychology from the University of Colorado. She is in a two-year advanced fellowship program in mental illness research and treatment with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Buffalo, N.Y. Her husband of five years, Bryan Ludwig ’06, is a sales manager for a beer distribution company in Colorado, specializing in American craft beer and small
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Adam “Pinky” Stegall ’07 played in the Bingham Cup (the world championship of gay and inclusive rugby teams) with the Charlotte Royals in Manchester, England, helping the team finish third in its division. The Royals beat teams from Belgium, France, and England, but narrowly lost to heavyweight London in the finals. The team hopes to do even better in Australia in 2014.
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