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committee made up of Securities America staff. The board includes eight individuals from across the United States who work to make financial firms associated with Securities America, Inc., better meet their firms’ needs. McCain has been associated with The Farese Group since 2004. She serves as the group’s practice administration manager.
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Andrew Harrison has spent the past two years in Austin, Texas, working for MyEdu, a startup focused on higher education. He is engaged to Dr. Kelly Tennant. The couple is relocating to Victoria, British Columbia, where she will begin postdoctoral studies in neuroscience and he will work for a website design firm.
Bailey Sanders graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Alabama, where she was a threeyear letter woman and coxswain for the Tide’s varsity women’s rowing team. Sanders is now pursuing her master’s degree in political science at the University of Georgia, where she is a teaching assistant.
IN MEMORIAM Charles Magruder ’81, who attended St. Andrew’s the 5th – 10th grades from 1973 to 1979, passed away June 14, 2011. He leaves many in the St. Andrew’s family who loved him dearly.
Douglas McRae is serving in the Peace Corps in Peru. He worked for two years Jay Songcharoen married Shain rural health promoSidney Perry Allen III ron Hong on March 26, 2011. tion in the small town Douglas McRae Both are residents at the University of Mississippi Mediof Potrerillo in Piura, cal Center in Jackson. He is in general surgery, and she is Peru, and currently supports the community health proin internal medicine. gram from the Peace Corps office in Lima, Peru. McRae recently traveled to the Amazonas region, visiting sites 2003 including the pre-Columbian fortress Kuelap (pictured), Brad Baskin and Leslie Wells located high in the Andean cloud forest. ’06 are engaged to be married 2005 on April 21, 2012 in Jackson. Rebecca Brannan and Brooks Vance ’02 were married on Baskin is a first-year associate May 7th, 2010, in Napa Valley, California. They live in at Markow Walker law firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ridgeland and Wells is a parttime graphic arts teacher at St. 2006 Leslie Wells and Brad Baskin Mallory Markham graduated with distinction from the Andrew’s Upper School. University of Oklahoma and has accepted a contract to William Drinkwater is an associate at the law firm of dance professionally with the Columbus Dance Theater in Columbus, Ohio. Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes in Jackson.
Mrs. Jessie Vinson • 1930-2010 The entire St. Andrew’s community was saddened by the loss Ashley Wright completed her first year at the University of Mrs. Jessie Vinson, longtime receptionist and a beloved of Mississippi School of Law and is working as a law clerk fixture at the Lower School campus for 23 years. at the Tollison Law Firm in Oxford. She is vice president “Jessie knew every student and loved each one. As the first of the law school’s legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, and a person to greet you in the Lower School, she was the perfect member of the moot court board. presence as our ambassador,” says Jean Jones Downey, former head of the Lower School. “She was always neat as a pin 2007 and classic in her attire – we often wondered if Jessie ever Margaret Clark is pursuing a master’s degree in Greek and looked rumpled or had a bad hair day. The phone lines could Latin languages and literature at the University of Oxford. be buzzing and she never displayed frustration with the outside noise of children or endless questions. Jessie was never Anna Drake is a member of the class of 2015 at Missistoo busy to clean up a playground scrape and give a child a sippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. hug. I know I speak for the entire St. Andrew’s community in saying we loved her and the touch of elegance and grace Rivers Fike graduated magna cum laude from Louisiana she brought to the Lower School.” State University with a bachelor’s of science in petro Jessie Vinson is survived by her husband, Richard Vinson, leum engineering. He is working as a drilling engineer and son, Mark Vinson, who is a St. Andrew’s alumnus. with Shell Oil in New Orleans. Mrs. Susan “Sue” Houghtaling • 1949-2010 Ben Johnson lives in Boston and works for a mobile soft- The St. Andrew’s community is also mourning the loss of ware development company in Cambridge. During his Sue Houghtaling, who taught history at St. Andrew’s from senior year at Bowdoin, he created an iPhone application 1998-2004 and also served as chair of the history departcalled Free Time (www.freetimeapp.com), which was fea- ment. A graduate of Rutgers University and the University tured by Apple as a New and Noteworthy application. In of New Orleans, Houghtaling taught at Coast Episcopal the first week of downloads, Johnson’s app was down- School in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and at St. Martin’s loaded once every 10 seconds (about 100,000 times) and Episcopal School in Metairie, Louisiana, prior to joining the to date has been downloaded more than 180,000 times St. Andrew’s faculty. After leaving St. Andrew’s, Houghtaling taught at Sewickley Academy in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. from every continent and more than 80 countries. As a teacher, Houghtaling was both deeply respected and Sallie Ann Muskett (a student at St. Andrew’s from beloved by her students. Recognizing the power of education 2003-2005) graduated from the University of Portland to transform lives, she approached the teaching of history Nursing School. She has spent time caring for children as an opportunity to show her students not only how hisin Mexico with cleft deformities tory was made, but also their own power to shape the future. and in the NICU at the Univer- Both the 2004 St. Andrew’s yearbook and the 2011 Sewickley Academy yearbook are dedicated to her. sity of Washington. “Sue had high standards, but was always available to help Rubina Sood Sethi and her hus- her students reach those goals,” Julia Chadwick, head of the band, Sunny Sethi, welcomed a Upper School, says. “She was committed to the whole child son, Satnam Lal Sethi II, on Jan- and was always interested in her students’ success outside Satnam Lal Sethi II the classroom. She was one of those well-loved teachers that uary 17, 2011. older students and alumni remembered from their ’younger 2009 days.’ I loved working with Sue. Her knowledge and gift for Elizabeth Fike was accepted into the Mississippi Rural teaching was a gift for all of us.” Physician Scholarship Program and was granted direct Sue Houghtaling is survived by her husband, Bruce admission into University Mississippi Medical Center, Houghtaling, former head of the St. Andrew’s Upper School, and their son, Edward “Teddy” Houghtaling ’02. class of 2013.
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1999 Lindsey Greer graduated with highest honors from the London School of Economics with an LLM in international business law. Greer lives in London, England, where she practices law with Holman Fenwick Willan, specializing in international shipping. http://www.hfw. com/profiles/lindsey.greer@hfw.com
2004 Susie Clark Bares married Brett Bares of New Orleans on December 29, 2010 in Paris, Susie Clark Bares France. The couple lives in New Orleans where Susie is a first grade teacher.
Sarah Rivlin is a fourth and fifth grade English and social studies teacher at St. Martin’s Episcopal School in Metairie, Louisiana.
Carrie Menist Grunkemeyer married Parker Grunkemeyer on June 25, 2011 in Jackson. Members of the wedding party included Claire Patrick Strange ’03, Allison Forman ’04, Emily Thomas ’04, Ashley Wells Hullender ’04, Laura Mortimer ’04, Skylar Menist ’12, Tye Menist ’06, and Tanner Menist ’13. The couple lives in Nashville, where Grunkemeyer is a speech-language pathologist in Metro-Nashville Public School.
2000 Sidney Allen and his wife, Kristin, welcomed their first child, Sidney Perry Allen III, on March 21. 2001 Tara Melinchuk Blazona and her husband, Edgar, celebrated the arrival of Tyler Lee Blazona on June 28.