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College and the Warehouse Theater, Greenville, SC. RACHEL NG Hansen is the Social Media and Marketing Specialist at Converse in Admission and Co-chair of the Student Ambassador Team at Converse. Riley Campbell Hansen, son of RACHEL NG Hansen and Stuart Hansen, was born October 9, 2012. JOHANNA WHITMER Ward is the Interior Designer and Marketing Coordinator for SGA Architecture in Pawleys Island, SC. Johanna and Benjamin Ward, married on October 5, 2013 in Murrells Inlet, SC. AUDREY JACCARD is the Ceramics Instructor and Studio Manager at JJ Potts/Ceramic Supply USA in Salt Lake City, UT. JANICE BURRELL Metallo is an Interior Designer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL. Janice and David Metallo, married on April 27, 2013 in Pawleys Island, SC. ALICE BEATY-Palacios and G. Alfonso Palacios Cordova married on August 4, 2012 in Inman, SC. Areli Nicole Palacios, daugter of Alice BEATY-Palacios and G. Alfonso Palacios Cordova, was born January 13, 2013. DANIELLE PEREGOY Barnes and Captain Curt Douglas Barnes II, USAF married on May 4, 2013 in Aiken, SC. NORA NASSRI and Jalal Eddin Hakmei, MD married on August 10, 2013 in Orangeburg, SC. KRISTINA BLANCHARD Robbins and Scott Robbins married on September 21, 2013 in Spartanburg, SC. Abdul Usman, son of SHONTAE ALSTON Usman and Abdul Latif Usman, was born in Feburary 2012. Joshua English “Jet” Taylor, son of REBECCA BRUST Taylor and Porter Taylor, was born March 2012. Abigal Fridzon, daughter of KATIE POOLEY Fridzon and Alex Fridzon, was born May 10, 2012. Norah Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of MONICA MCKIERNAN and Jeffrey Kelly, was born September 27, 2012. Anna Campbell Felkel, daughter of
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MARGARET SHIRK Felkel and Warren Felkel, was born December 4, 2013. SAMANTHA DEEANN PRICE earned her Master’s in Viola Performance on April 27, 2013 from CCM at University of Cincinnati. Congratulations to MARYBETH SANDERS-Wilson on completion of her Master’s in Sacred Music from Perkins School of Theology-Southern Methodist in May 2012. Also congratulations to Marybeth on her wedding to Bradley Wilson on October 13, 2012. SHARON ANN STARLING and Matthew Stephen Halpern married on December 31, 2012. LAUREN ELIZABETH POPE married Holland Belue on June 9, 2012. JENNIFER LEIGH HYLER and Dikran Nubar Yacoubian both of Columbia, SC were married at five o’clock in the evening, on September 7, 2013. SARAH BRACEY Johnson is a Chaplin Resident at Carolina’s Medical Center NE in North Carolina. Congratulations to STEPHANIE ANDERS and Byron McSwain on their wedding on October 6, 2012. Also congratulations to Stephanie on completing her Master’s in Education from Southern Wesleyan University in May 2012. COURTNEY ROBERTS MARSHALL just started her job with Farrell Lines, Inc in July of 2013. They are a shipping company working mostly to support the needs of our deployed servicemen and women. We hope that you will make plans to join us on campus for the 125th anniversary celebration of the College April 24-26th. Stay tuned for more details of a class get-together during the weekend!
Class of 2009 Katie Beaty Mayes mayes.katie@gmail.com
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Daniela B. Cuddington burrows.dmarie@yahoo.com AMANDA SIMMONS is in her second year of teaching ESL in the United Arab Emirates. This is Amanda’s fifth year as a teacher. ANNA SHARP received her Master’s
in Marriage and Family Therapy in May 2013. She works as a Training Specialist and part-time Therapist at Willowglen Academy, a psychiatric residential treatment facility for children and adolescents in Kingstree, SC. BAILEY LANFORD Taylor and her husband Tripp have been married for three and half years. She is teaching kindergarten in Spartanburg District 7. BRITTNAY MORENO is living in Clemson, SC where she is a Personal Banker at Wells Fargo. BROOKE JAKELYN FRANKLIN has completed her Master’s in International Politics in 2012 (concentration on Food Policy and Eastern Europe) after returning from a year abroad in Russia. She is currently working for the Department of Defense. Brooke is a member of the Junior League of Washington and serves as a docent at the Lee-Fendall House Museum. ELIZABETH DEMPSEY previously taught in Denmark, SC for three years, but now is in her first year of graduate school at the University of South Carolina in Music Education. KELLY PANNOCCHIA is still living in Spartanburg, SC and working as a Legal Assistant at Talley Law Firm. She also runs the toddler nursery at Westminister Presbyterian Church. REBECCA RAWLS Croskey was married to Andrew Croskey this past September. She worked for a year as an Academic and Premedical Advisor. They have now moved from Wichita, KS to Goose Creek, SC for Andrew to begin work as a Propulsion Engineer for the Boeing 787 project. ROBIN JOHNSTON is living in Spartanburg and has been married for over two years. She has a two year old son named Gunnar, and is working at Spartanburg Regional Hospital in the business office. SARA SIPE has almost completed her postgraduate fellowship to receive her license in LMFT. She is currently working at a local non-profit organization called WestGate TCN. Along with Sara’s fellowship position, she is also the clinic’s office manager. TRIONA GATELEY is living in Chesapeake, VA and working as an Accreditation Consultant for the Portsmouth Health Department.