Michael Jarvis ’06 and Thomas Wood ’08 both received awards from UNC-Chapel Hill’s lacrosse program last spring. Michael was honored with the Colonel Bob Needham Unsung Hero Award and the Ralph ‘Rip’ Davy, III Memorial Award; Thomas received the Kevin Reichardt Memorial Award. MARRIED: Chase Lansing to Bliss Hanlon on July 31, 2010 in Washington, DC. Bliss and Chase live in Utah where she is a graduate student and he sells building products.
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Francie Friddell is living in Denver, CO. She has an internship Denver Art Museum, and she’s living with sister Ginnie ’04 who is substitute teaching and coaching.
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Briana Jain graduated from JMU with a degree in health sciences/pre-PA and is now working with Youth With a Mission in Thailand. YWAM works with street children, orphans, and children sold into prostitution. Michael Jarvis, a defenseman for UNC’s lacrosse team, won two honors at the team’s awards banquet this past fall. According to UNC’s sports info office, “The 2010 team co-captain was presented with the Colonel Bob Needham Unsung Hero Award. The Needham honor is the second oldest award at UNC, dating to 1977. Jarvis also won the Ralph ‘Rip’ Davy, III Memorial Award for outstanding senior leadership, the newest award at UNC in only its third year of existence. The senior defenseman started all 16 games last year and was second on the team in takeaways with 21.” Evan Kelly is working as a systems engineer in Honolulu, HI. Becky Lane has been living in Manhattan for five years and has been working for the past two years as a freelance assistant film editor. Her first feature length project as First Assistant Editor, Alex Gibney’s documentary Client9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, was released in theaters on Nov. 5, 2010. The film received Oscar buzz for Best Documentary. Liz Luckey has been working as a teacher in France. Megan McGraw is living in London and working in the transfer pricing department at Deloitte. Emily Melson is in law school at UVA. Zach Mendez is living and teaching reading in Miami. Ginny Rider is working on a bison ranch in Colorado. Margaret Rosebro is getting her master’s in elementary education. Kristin Runey taught in Spain this past year and is helping coach varsity girls soccer at Collegiate this spring. Madeleine Schnur is in Israel learning Hebrew, performing community service, and completing an internship. Mikey Thompson organized the Will Barrow Memorial Flag Football Tournament which took place at UVA on Nov. 6, 2010. The tournament was established in 2009 in memory of Mikey’s former lacrosse teammate. The event raises money for the University of Virginia’s HELP line and helps spread awareness of suicide prevention. Katie Bo Williams is living in Australia and is headed to Dubai.
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you plan your own studies, but you really have to take initiative and utilize all the resources possible. I visited Richmond recently during Christmas, and it was great to see my host family and old friends! To my surprise, despite the unchanged natural beauty, the city has evolved. I look forward to revisiting Collegiate in the near future.” Gracie McGurn was named to Greater Richmond SCAN’s Board of Young Professionals. Stop Child Abuse Now is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Gracie continues to work in the development office and coach cross country and track at Collegiate, and she recently placed 6th in her age group in the Richmond Marathon. Stephie Swisher is teaching English at a private school in Udon Thani, Thailand.
Thea Childress ’06 married Eric Rist on Sept. 25, 2010. MARRIED: Thea Childress to Eric Paul Rist on Sept. 25, 2010 in Roanoke. Brother Alex Childress ’00 and classmate Chapin Hardy were in the wedding party.
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While interning at Woman’s Day magazine this past summer, Sloane Beaver wrote an article which was published Nov. 1, 2010. Her piece was part of a three-part story called “The Power of a Letter: Read about special correspondence that forever changed the lives of three women.” Sloane wrote about letters that her father, Ken Beaver, wrote to her and sisters McKenzie Beaver ’10 and Ali Beaver ’14 before he died in 1997. Brittany Hallberg, a senior soccer captain at Elon University, was named to the All-Southern Conference second team this past fall. She was also chosen as Southern Conference’s StudentAthlete of the week for the first week in September. A forward for the Phoenix (12-8-1), Brittany scored 6 goals and contributed 6 assists, both team bests, during her final season. Three of her goals were game winners. Off the soccer field, Brittany teaches elementary students as part of her major.
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