Connie Rader Clark ’90 MEd on the death of her husband, Larry M. Clark, December 20, 2009 Amy MacNutt Sharon ’90 on the death of her mother, Janet Burwell MacNutt, December 29, 2010 Ashley Burnside Brantley ’92 on the death of her stepfather, Guy Matthews Tarrant, Jr., March 20, 2010 Camri Klinger Monaghan ’96 on the death of her mother, Toni Morris Klinger, August 21, 2010 Komilla Bhatty John ’97 on the death of her father, Azhar M. Bhatty, November 12, 2010 Stephanie Easterday Bartuch ’98 on the death of her father, Robert McQuay Easterday, December 15, 2009 Erin Rich Strickland ’98 on the death of her mother, Laurice Weed Rich, July 17, 2010 Rachel Burgess Van Gorden ’99 on the death of her father, Robert Burgess, Jr., December 2, 2010 Kathryn Hoy Kauffman ’99 on the death of her grandmother, Mary Emily Platt Jackson, ’42, December 11, 2010 Ann Mullins Johnson ’99 on the death of her mother, Elizabeth Hugus Mullins, December 22, 2010 Sarah Power Love ’99 on the death of her infant son, Matthew Evan Love, August 4, 2010
Brayden Charles Haynes, October 14, 2010, son of Ben and Kim Kitchin Haynes ’95 Vivien Elizabeth Spake, May 8, 2010, daughter of Michael and May Lucia Solomon Spake ’95 MacLean Faircloth Fulmer, July 27, 2010, son of Jamie and Katherine Colburn Fulmer ’96 Katherine Baines Lancaster, October 15, 2010, daughter of Andy and Beth Farmer Lancaster ’96 Micah Grant Beaufort, October 22, 2009, son of Jonathan and Crista Smith Beaufort ’97 Jennings Parsons, September 10, 2010, son of Kent and Shannon Campbell Parsons ’98 Joseph Anthony Bartuch IV, November 9, 2010, son of Joseph and Stephanie Easterday Bartuch ’98 Patrick Anderson Conner, August 6, 2010, son of Jamie and Mary Ellen Goff Conner ’98 Adele Martha Waldrop, December 30, 2010, daughter of Mark and Lynn Hudson Waldrop ’98 Grant Sullivan, September 2, 2010, son of Mark and Fran Jordan Sullivan ’98 Margaret Calhoun Dorn, July 2, 2010, daughter of Lee and Alice Miller Dorn ’98 Mayes Elizabeth Jeffries Unger, June 24, 2010, daughter of Jay and Betsy Pringle Unger ’98 Ellison Reese Taylor, June 4, 2010, daughter of Barry and Kristen Pruitt Taylor ’98 Lawrence Abney Wilson and Alexander Cres Wilson, November 1, 2010, twin sons of Reed and Emily Smith Wilson ’98 Claire Abigail Gaines, July 29, 2010, daughter of Jerry and Erin Addington Gaines ’99
Marriages
Career Changes
In Memoriam Janey Short Simpson ’91, September 15, 2009 Leigh Anne Ward ’97, August 17, 2010
Sympathy
Melissa Sanders ’90 to Daniel Mostiler, August 28, 2010 Keri Knecht ’95 to Thomas Grosso, August 7, 2010 Melissa Lynn Van Doren ’97 to Richard Weaver, October 2, 2010 Virginia Elizabeth Benton ’98 to Robert Morris Gdovin, Jr., June 19, 2010 Christine Brown ’98 to Marshall Banks Wilkins, August 21, 2010 Melanie Jolley Johnson ’98, ’02 MEd to George Glenn Matthews, III, November 24, 2010 Shwetha Sathy Gupta ’99 to Jeff Silver, October 17, 2010 Katherine Nicole Medlock ’99 to Brian Jeffrey Scott, July 10, 2010 Elizabeth Renee Thompson ’99 to Abraham David Dabbs, August 20, 2010
Births Lane Clark Willis, April 22, 2010, son of Pete and Dalinda Peek Willis ’90
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Gwynne Brown Goodlett ’90, Senior Policy Analyst, USC School of Law - Children’s Law Center, Columbia, SC Ginger Corbin Church ’92, Assistant Director of the Converse Annual Fund, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC Keri Knecht Grosso ’95, Minister of Music, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Norwood, MA Christi L. Lewis ’95, Lead Orchestra Teacher, Richland County School District One, Columbia, SC Mary Lucia Solomon Spake ’95, Director of Outreach and Clinical Eduator, Augusta Hospice, Augusta, GA Emily Gowdy Canady ’97, Program Officer for Youth, College Campus and Young Adult Ministries of East Carolina, Kinston, NC Nikki Willoughby ’97, Common Cause, Washington, DC Deanne Tyner Frye ’99, Director of Career Services, Coker College, Hartsville, SC
Advanced Degrees Colette Beckett ’92, MS, Capella University, 2009 Semeika Yolanda McIntyre ’99, ’05 MAT, MEd, Winthrop University, 2010
CLASS OF 1990 Next Reunion - Alumnae Weekend, 2015 Rosemary Glaze Sullivan 14 Southington Overton, Hamphsire RG25 3DA, England mamiesullivan@hotmail.co.uk Cheryl Owens Verdell 138 Samantha Drive Inman, SC 29349 dverdell@bellsouth.net Lesa Underwood did a three-week home exchange in The Cotswolds, and had a fabulous time enjoying the countryside. Claire Bramlett Dehmer was in Charleston over Thanksgiving and got together with Lesa for lunch. Ann Morrow Boyd is doing great in Asheville, NC. She and Adam stay busy with Mary Page (a junior in high school), Joe (freshman), and Hank (6th grade). Debbie Currin Connor was honored by The Sun News as an Exceptional Woman of the Coastal Carolinas in their fall issue of Home Living. Congratulations also go out to our own classmate Elizabeth Rogers Munnerlyn for winning District 54 representative in the SC House! Tina Archer Hope and her husband Willy are staying busy and musical in Champaign, IL with Emanuel (13) and Marina (10). Rosemary Walton Sullivan is working on her Masters in Educational Studies, Hearing Impairment while teaching four days a week. Nancy Phillips Coleman and Chriss celebrated their 20-year anniversary. They are living in Gainesville, FL with daughter, Hannah (11). Amy MacNutt Sharon is busy in Valdosta, GA, with her two boys and working part-time for her husband. She has recently completed her 17th marathon. Jennifer Bengston Cook lives in Greenville, SC. She drove her two kids to Valdosta, GA over the summer to spend time with Nancy Phillips Coleman and Amy MacNutt Sharon Rosemary Glaze Sullivan enjoyed a long weekend in Paris in December with her sister Katie and daughter Madeline. Katherine Simmons Bryan’s oldest child, daughter Kate, will start Kindergarten in the fall! The Bryan family went on the Polar Express train ride out of Bryson City, NC, for a Christmas treat. Connie Rader Clark is trying to cajole her eldest granddaughter to attend at Converse after she finishes her A levels in England. Please keep in touch on Facebook-Converse College Class of 1990.