CLASS NOTES Jessica Krick Stanton ’98 was recently married to Thomas Stanton on October 20, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. Many fellow AIS alumnae were in attendance: Liz Coulson Libre ’95, Lauren Patterson, Katie Bradley, Lauren Lehane ’99, Jennifer Emmi Fiorini ’97, Alana Salvucci Johnson ’97, Becky Hurwitz ’99 and Heidi Berlacher Pierce.
at a middle school. My son, Dimitri, is 10 and my daughter, Kelis, is 8. Life is wonderful and I feel blessed.” Hannah Wood Wick ’93 says, “I am a stay-athome mother of two children, Charlie, 5 and Phoebe, 2. I have been living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston for the past 15 years. Sending big hugs to all my classmates from AIS!” Mary Elizabeth Noel Todd ’95 welcomed Baby Nolan on March 15, 2012. “He’s fat and happy and doing his best to avoid any loving assaults by his older brother, Billy.” Megan Dorsey ’98 is attending University of Massachusetts in Boston to become a registered nurse. Sarah Miller ’98 is engaged to Timothy Joseph Maher and planning a fall 2013 wedding in
:: Children of Drew and Annie Casey Milligan ’95.
2000-2009 :: Liz Cuckler Odiorne ’93 and Annie Casey Milligan ’95 share the holiday assembly tradition with their children.
Vermont. Sarah is a sales representative with Pinnacle Outdoor Group, where she represents a wide range of outdoor apparel, camping and sports equipment. Tim is an account supervisor with Fuse, a youth culture and action sports marketing agency based in VT. Tim and Sarah met in Vermont, where both are very actively involved in skiing, mountain biking and many other outdoor activities.
:: Sarah Kingsley Miller ’98 and her fiancé, Timothy Joseph Maher.
Eliza Slate Bakken ’00 is an academic pediatrician at UCSF, based at the county hospital, San Francisco General. She loves her job, which allows her to care for an underserved population as well as participate in medical student and resident education. She is happily married and now a mother to Henry Oliver Bakken, who is 15 months old. She and her family live outside of San Francisco, CA and love the Northern California lifestyle. Be in touch if you’re in the Bay Area! Jennifer Vanett Bretz ’00 has accepted a new job as the science and technology program manager at One Mind for Research, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating knowledge in neurosciences research and finding better preventions, treatments and cures for brain disorders. In addition to the new career, Jennifer and her husband, Kevin, moved to a new house in Allentown, PA in January and hope to start a family in the Lehigh Valley area. Jennifer would love to connect with any alumnae in the area. Rashida Brooks ’01 spent 2011 traveling the world as a missionary on an 11-month,
Taking Her Lessons Around the World COURTNEY FRETZ ’98 described her transfer from public school into the Upper School at Agnes Irwin as an “awakening.” Where before she’d had the sense that she was cruising through school, under the radar, suddenly she was challenged and expected to achieve her personal best. “I found Irwin’s was a strong and supportive community,” said Courtney, a member of the AIS National Alumnae Advisory Council. “It made a difference knowing people cared about your success and well-being – they were there to support you.” It’s a lesson that she’s taken with her wherever she goes. And she has gone far! For the past three and a half years, she has been with Dow Chemicals, and much of that time has been spent internationally in global marketing roles, including additional responsibility for regional marketing in Latin America for the Home & Personal Care business, which involved a seven-month posting in São Paulo, Brazil. She loves that she has been able to combine travel and work. Whenever she is abroad for work, she considers it a “wasted opportunity” not to immerse herself in the atmosphere of a
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place. Fascinated by how “closely interlinked the world actually is,” she has always taken a personal interest in learning about different cultures and languages. Courtney graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a double major in economics (Cum Laude) and East Asian studies, with a focus on China. As part of her East Asian studies, she spent a semester in Beijing. She went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2009. From the beginning, she was able to integrate travel into her career. She started her career working for Maersk, a Danish shipping company, in roles of increasing responsibility in finance, strategy and commercial management. She was posted to the Netherlands for two years, where she was responsible for global strategy in the Ports division. Her current role – since 2012 – as the North America business manager for Adhesives and Functional Materials (a specialty division within Dow Plastics) has brought her back to the States for the time being. One of the few women at her job level, Courtney has enjoyed in all her roles at Dow the sense of accomplishment that comes, as a team, from launching new products and solving problems for clients and industry. She loves how her company “uses science and technology to change how we live.” – Clare Luzuriaga