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org. Once on the site, you can also register for a Casady.org email address for all of your Casady correspondence. I look forward to hearing from all of you soon. Answers (in reverse): 20. Nick Bentley 19. Shea Samara 18. Jon Gilchrist 17. Scott Cole 16. John Sturm 15. Kim Brigati Wang 14. Shonte Byrd 13. Carolyn Hofmann Carpenter 12. Amy Cooke 11. Blake Beeler 10. Russell and Leigh Woody 9. Brad Shelley 8. Brooke Keitz Burns 7. Andy Sullivan 6. Bruce Fraley 5. Betsy Trent Martinez 4. Skip Lybrand 3. Rohini Bajaj 2. Lee Murphy 1. Jim Greathouse Fred Lybrand, and his wife, Wendy, spent most of 2007 living in Sydney, Australia with their son, Everett. Everett is now 2. Since then they returned home to Chapel Hill, NC, where Fred continues to work in and around private equity. He and his business partner recently opened the US office of a technology start-up which is headquartered in Central Europe. Fred regularly sees Peter Almond, Bruce Fraley and Russ Woody – in August they completed their 9th annual baseball trip; this time to see the Seattle Mariners lose 5-10 at home to the Orioles. The four of them created a scholarship fund, the Black Mesa Foundation, led by Russ, to promote and encourage entrepreneurship in Oklahoma. Fred is involved in the UVA alumni association as a founding member of the T100 and was asked in 2007 to serve on the National Academies’ Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies – an appointment he will hold through 2010. Bruce also writes that Betsy Trent Martinez is engaged and getting married in February. Yeah, Betsy! Her fiance, Jim, is a great guy and everyone is very excited for them. Bruce and Cara Musser Fraley ’96 are expecting their 1st child. Peter Almond and his wife Amber continue to enjoy Manhattan and all of its charms. Pete’s enjoying his 10th year working in leveraged finance for Banc of America Securities.
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Cara Musser Fraley 1125 Hemstead Place Oklahoma City, OK 73116 (405) 420-9424 caramuss@yahoo.com Let’s start with a shout out to all of the class notes writers who completed the task before the days of e-mail. I really don’t know how they did it! Without e-mail, how could Nick Saadah be the first to write in from Lebanon?! He left Houston this year to
attend medical school at the American University of Beirut (his father and all 4 grandparents graduated from this medical school). Nick said it feels nice to follow in the family footsteps, his Arabic is improving, and the country is too beautiful for words. Laura Freeman-Yilmazcetin still loves the adventure of life in Istanbul, Turkey. Her husband, Tolga, still flies the Airbus 310 internationally for Turkish Airlines. One of her favorite excursions this summer was a 1,000-mile road trip through Turkey, where they visited many ancient ruins (including Troy) and bought lots of organic produce, olive oil and cheeses. They also took ferries to 2 beautiful Greek islands, Samos and Levsos. Also overseas, Jennifer MartensSpaeth is happily married and living in the Netherlands. She works for Progress Software in Rotterdam (near Amsterdam). She and her husband bought a house in 2008, but it won’t be finished until next year. Our first classmate update ever from Australia came from Angelique Paulk. After graduating from the University of Arizona in August with her Ph.D. in Insect Science, she moved to Brisbane for a research job at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland. Her work focuses on flies and bees and the neural mechanisms of attention. I just know any day now we’ll see Angelique on the Discovery Channel! Allison Denmark Shaw and her husband, Michael, live in Sacramento, CA. She works part-time as a freelance writer/ editor, primarily doing technical writing (rewriting legal and engineering documents in plain English) for state agencies. She is also the editor and a feature writer for Access Magazine, published by Sacramento State University, and in the fall she began teaching music to 2 and 3-year-olds through a program called “Music for Young Children” (www.myc.com). Allison and Michael celebrated their 9th wedding anniversary in June in Washington DC. Their lives are full of activities with their 2-year-old son, Liam, and things are about to get even busier with the birth of their second child around Thanksgiving! Emil Gilliam worked on LeapFrog’s new Didj handheld learning system in Emeryville, CA and then took the summer off to travel and read. He spent a week at Jazz Camp West in La Honda, CA, to try his hands at jazz piano – something he never studied before (hard to believe!). He met famous drummer Tootie Heath, met many new friends, and performed his original composition, “Slither” (search “Jazz
Camp Slither” on YouTube). He also spent over a month in Europe, where he attended the Global Catastrophic Risks conference at Oxford and went to London, Cambridge, Paris, Brussels, Brugge, Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen. He had a great time despite his plane getting hit by lightning on the way back to the US! Michael Nevard and his wife, Jill, still call San Francisco home. Michael works for Shorenstein Properties developing office buildings around the U.S., and enjoys Jill’s culinary creations as she has entered the catering/private-chef world. He also visited his sister, Lisa ’93, and Lauren Price in Chicago and Eli Hellman in Washington, DC in 2008. Lauren still loves Chicago and her job at Intersport, a sports marketing firm. Work took her to some fun places this year such as Miami, Minneapolis, LA, San Francisco, Sacramento and Madison, home of her beloved Badgers. Eli is a trademark attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in DC. He spent 3 weeks in Australia with family this summer and spent most other summer weekends hanging out with Lisa Bozalis in East Hampton, NY. Lisa is an attorney at Shamoun Klatsky Norman, LLP, in New York City. She is still happy living in the big city but loves to travel as well. Last winter she went to Switzerland and Austria to ski with some friends. Jon Hill and his wife, Megan, who live in OKC, finished up an extensive house remodel – at least the inside – just in time to welcome a baby girl, Emory Grace, in October 2007! Ownership of a dental practice in northwest OKC and preparing for the baby kept them very busy this year, leaving Jon a few minutes of free time to work on his golf game. DJ Morgan and his wife, Sarah, also live in OKC, where DJ works for MidFirst Bank and Sarah works part-time in admissions and special project areas at Westminster School. Son Jack is now 4 and daughter Ellie is 1. Michael Woody had another exciting year in South Florida (Deerfield Beach – just north of Fort Lauderdale) after proposing to his girlfriend of about 3 years, Esme, in January. They are scheduled to marry in April 2009 at Ocean Reef in Key Largo. Even with all the wedding planning, Michael finds time to work as a middle market lender at Commerce Bank, which will be changing its name to TD Bank by year’s end. Esme, originally from NYC, is an Institutional Trader for Northern Trust in West Palm Beach. Michael reported that “Rob Trotter is still in Nashville, TN. He seems to be doing very well and was recently