theUnion: Alumni dinners at least twice a month. I also visit often with one of my Apartment B roommates, Rachel Veto Chabot, who teaches French at Stratford Academy in Macon and often performs in musicals with her husband Jeff at Theater Macon.“ “I was reading in the Davidson Journal, and I decided it was time for me to provide an update,” adds the former Gillian Siple. “This past year I added a new last name — Davidson. What are the odds I would find a husband with a name to match Davidson College? Sam and I had a beautiful ceremony in a park in Berkeley, Calif. Laura Beach officiated our interfaith — Jewish, Buddhist, and Christian ceremony. Mejin Leechor ’08 played violin, Laura Pepper, Jared McKiernan attended, and Erin McCoy flew in all the way from Swaziland to attend. Life is good here is sunny California, and I am happily enjoying my new last name, Gillian Siple Davidson.” Former man-about-campus, Wilson McCrory, married his long-time love, Lauren Cimino McCrory, in Tampa, Fla. in March. The wedding was a full-on weekend bash culminating with a beautiful wedding at Lauren’s home church and a dance-party reception. Groomsmen included Davidson graduates Mac Skelton, Keith Farrow, Blake Poole ’08, and Carson Sanders. Also attending were Emily Kota, Garrett and Megan Jenkins ’06, and James Boswell ’08. Wilson and Lauren now make their permanent home in the Dilworth area of Charlotte as Wilson continues his work with McKinsey and Company. Again, please send either Jaimie or me your updates. We would love to fill the notes section each time. And I know it is the first section you turn to each time your Davidson Journal arrives in the mail…. Contact: Carson Sanders, PO Box 13122, Charleston, SC 29422; carson.sanders@ gmail.com Jaimie Matthews, 1317 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Apt. 302, Washington, DC 20005-3729; jaimie.k.matthews@gmail.com
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AS TOLD BY: Robby Hoak and Anna Hamilton, Class Secretaries Drew Gilbert and Alicyn Isaac-Lowry were recently married in Sea Island on April 12 and the wedding was filled with fellow Davidson classmates and attendees! Aaron West currently resides in Bethesda, Md. where he recently took a position as director of Social Media at the nonprofit Koa Sports. Aaron continues to stay involved in soccer through freelance writing for content websites such as Soccer Without Limits (swol.co) and coaching on the side. Juggle Club standout Will Blue will graduate from Columbia Business School in May. Alice Frimpong Ankamah and her husband, Godwin Ankamah welcomed their first son Samuel Ankamah on November 20, 2013, and are doing well in Silver Spring, Md. Kerby Teller ’09 and Jennifer Vogel were recently engaged on April 14. Kerby has been living in Washington D.C. since graduation and currently works with commercial real estate and investment group JLL. Keep up the good work and don’t forget to send us your updates.
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AS TOLD BY: Chieko T. Phillips and Cary V. Wright, Class Secretaries It was great to celebrate with so many of you at our recent fifth-year reunion. We look forward to keeping our class connected through your updates until the next time we gather as a class at Davidson! Contact: Chieko T. Phillips, 1220 Boren Ave., Apt. A1, Seattle, WA 98101; 770-316-6140; chieko.phillips@gmail.com Cary V. Wright, 6382 Shady Brook Ln., Apt. 1230, Dallas, TX 75206; 806-206-4443; cawright09@gmail.com From Alumni Relations: David Fowler and Mary Ross Bryant Fowler welcomed a baby girl, Abigail Ross Fowler into the world on March 12. They will call her Abby.
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AS TOLD BY: Claire Asbury and Haley Cook Sonneland, Class Secretaries Greetings, Class of X! This time next year we’ll be celebrating our five-year reunion ... can you believe it? In the meantime, keep sending us your updates so we can keep everyone in the loop on the latest and greatest from our class. A few Wildcats have shifted into new jobs lately — Alysen Wallace is now the assistant director and counselor for the Office of Disability Services at UNC Charlotte, and Val Lee joined DC-based startup Fractograf to help build a new social network. Mordecai Scott wrote in to update us that he’s now an associate at commercial real estate brokerage firm Studley, and Brandon Wright will be starting a federal clerkship in Washington, D.C. shortly. In case you’ve missed his talks and poetry all across the interwebs, Clint Smith was featured in a TEDx talk in Manhattan this winter and will be heading to Harvard University to get a Ph.D. in education. Rieti Gengo is also on track for a Ph.D. — he’ll be pursuing a dual Ph.D. in anthropology and peace studies at Notre Dame. Kelsey Chisholm recently graduated from Duke with a master’s degree in medical physics and is currently living in Charlotte, doing a clinical residency with Landauer Medical Physics. Classmates gathered to toast the marriage celebration of Petri and Julie Palm Lindberg in October 2013 in Sarasota, Fla. Wildcats participating in the ceremony included Liam Bracken, Cassie Dormond, Abby Jones, Heather Smith, and Marja Kunz. Congratulations go out to Jo Glisson and Katie Taubenheim as well! Jo married Rob Rusch ’08 in Atlanta this past December, and Katie married Mark Brincken in February at their home in Rainier, Ore. And last but not least, congratulations to Marley Stone on her wedding to Tim Bourke in Islamorada, Fla. where Brenna Kelly served as one of Marley’s bridesmaids. BJ Youngerman has been a busy guy—moving to Chicago in December 2013 to start a new
marketing job with United Airlines and also helping fellow Class of Xer Michael Raymond start a new job at Capital One in Richmond, Va. And Ben Bashinski wrote in from Honduras, where he is stationed as first lieutenant at Soto Cano Air Force Base to work with the Honduran military for medical missions and to brush up on his Spanish. He is accepting all visitors! Many Wildcat doctors matched with residency programs this spring. We heard from a few, including Mike Soike who matched into radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; Jon Kass who matched into radiation in Pittsburgh; and Walter Kucera who will be starting a general surgery residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. in July. Our classmates also seem to have a running bug! Jamie Knowles decided that having a fulltime job and running a startup on the side weren’t enough, so ran the NYC half marathon with Mary Eannarino this winter. And Emily Rahill and Jen Crawford were among the thousands of faces who toughed it out from 26.2 miles during the ING Marathon in NYC this past winter. Michael Spangler writes, “My new wife Melissa (née Meijaard) and I are grateful to God to announce our marriage on February 8, in Lewiston, N.Y. Fellow Wildcat Matthew Capone ’11 was a groomsman. Melissa and I now live in Taylors, S.C., where I am studying for the pastoral ministry at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.” Well that’s it for this round, Wildcats! We look forward to hearing what amazing things you all are up to next. Contact: Claire Asbury, 3001 Westfield Rd., Charlotte, NC 28209; 770-826-0079; clasbury10@gmail.com Haley Cook Sonneland, 45 Wall St., Apt. 807, New York, NY 10005; 203-219-0031; hsonneland@gmail.com
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AS TOLD BY: Rebekah Ayscue and Margie Gudaitis Congrats to Danielle Ruggieri, Sam Payne, JP Craven ’10 and Pete Kidwell ’12 for completing the Boston Marathon #bostonstrong. And a great Davidson cheering section—Molly Duncan, Veronica Thomas, Casie Genetti, Tessa Campbell, Colin McWilliams, and Will General #minireunion In other athletic news, Josh Zipin was recently featured in a Nike ad - #risingstar. Shout out to Marybeth Campeau, Jessica Malordy, and Zoe Balaconis for receiving the first Davidson Venture Fund award #$25Kinthebank—and to Cathryn Westra and Sarah Connette who are writing for the Mag. Check out misadventuresmag.com and follow @MisadventuresMg. Love is in the air, so congratulations Alana Linn and Elliot Van Ness ’09, Virginia Boone and Jason Shank (in Paris), Tennant Brastow and Candi Marshburn, Sara Bates and Galen King ’10, and Ross Lackey and Tiffany O’Hara Estep ’13 on their engagements. #blingonbling ’Cats are abroad and doing awesome things. Maria Corriher just returned from Ukraine after spending two years there with the Peace Corp—stay tuned davidsonjournal.davidson.edu
for her next adventure. #offtonewmexico Michael Foglia is teaching English in Guadalajara, Spain, and Lucy Flournoy is in Dortmund, Germany teaching dance and working for ViNSiNN. #Europeanlife Samantha Galainena and Alana Ford are in London, England, and Alex Ripley is in Shenzhen, China. #catsacrossthecontinents Lauren Childs and Robert Mayo are travel in Italy before Lauren heads off to PA school. #buonviaggio And some Wildcats can’t get enough school: Daniel Legrand is off to UC Berkley for ethnomusicology. #goldenstatebound Lejla Agic is headed to business school after three years with Deloitte and Sara Levintow is headed to UNC Public Health. #backtoschool Matt Loftus & IS Dunklin are headed Darden School of Business at U.Va. #wildcatstakecharlottesville Justin Hua is saying his goodbyes to Davidson after three years in the Admission Office. He starts his masters in higher education administration at the Peabody College at Vanderbilt. #literallychoolforlife Amanda McQuade just finished her first year at Emory Law, and Jared Smith wrapped up his first year at UNC School of Law. #1down2togo Margot Zipperstein finished her first year at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. #1down1togo Betsy Lyles graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary. #presbyforlife Caitlin Piper and Brandon Sykes graduated from law school UVa. and UGA, respectively. #wildcatcourtroom Check out Boyce Whitesides and Allison Drutchas in Davidson’s 30 in 30. #youngalumsinaction Mark your calendars for Homecoming Weekend, September 20, 2014. #takeexit30 Contact: Khalil Jolibois, 6321 SW 63rd Terr., Miami, FL 33143; 305-510-9603; Khaliljolibois@gmail.com Savanna L. Shuntich, 3614 Connecticut Ave. NW, Apt. 35, Washington, DC 20007; 904866-8087; savanna.shuntich@gmail.com
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From Alumni Relations: Congratulations to Elaina Reinsvold who got engaged in April to Ted Geer! Congratulations are also in order for Morgan Bell and Harvey Kee ’11 who got engaged at Walt Disney World in April. Morgan is attending The Ohio State University for her graduate degree in student affairs. Also back to school are Ana Rodriguez who is attending Bastyr University in Seattle this semester to obtain her medical degree in naturopathic medicine and Malcolm MosesHampton who’s attending Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Ethan Clark graduated from the CharlotteMecklenburg Police Academy and is now working as a CMPD police officer. Congratulations, Ethan.
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All Hail Charles Wright ’57 was named United States Poet Laureate by The Library of Congress. A retired University of Virginia professor, Wright is the author of more than two dozen collections of verse. As a Davidson student Wright was a history major and won the college’s Vereen Bell Prize for writing. Davidson awarded Wright an honorary doctor of letters degree in 1997, the year before he won the Pulitzer Prize. George House ’69, partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, was recognized in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of environmental law. Margaret Noel, M.D. ’79, editor of The Memory Care Plays, has received a bronze medal for best anthology at the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards, from among more than 5,500 entries from authors and publishers in all 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces and 32 countries overseas. Noel is the founder of MemoryCare, a non-profit in Asheville, N.C., that has provided integrated services for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and their caregivers, since 2000. Kearns Davis ’91, partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, was recently appointed to the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission, established in 2005 by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Davis leads Brooks Pierce’s practice in white-collar criminal defense, felony trials and appeals, grand jury proceedings, and government investigations. He was among the attorneys recognized in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Davis is a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former law clerk for Judge Sam J. Ervin III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Marie Louise Ryan ’98 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study and research in Nepal for the academic year 2014–15. She is pursuing double master’s degrees at Iowa State University in sustainable agriculture and community planning. Richmond Blake ’09 has received the Human Rights and Democracy Achievement Award of the U.S. Department of State. While serving at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Blake overcame Bolivian government hostility and intimidation tactics to advance key U.S. human rights priorities. He spearheaded a 21-episode radio soap opera to raise awareness about human trafficking, and through a series of creative low-cost initiatives he modeled how embassies can promote the rights of members of marginalized populations.
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AS TOLD BY: Billy Hackenson and Mel Mendez, Class Secretaries Happy summer Class of 2013! We trust that, as we pass the one-year mark since graduation, you are doing well and settling into a routine that unfortunately no longer allows for Outpost visits or the much-needed afternoon nap. We’re so glad to hear all the great work you’ve been up to, but please keep those updates coming our way! Brody Medford has recently joined part-time with a company called 60-day MBA (co-founded by Ryan Ferrier ’03). Their goal is to get entrepreneurs off the ground and start their businesses. If you’re curious to learn more, feel free to email one of us and we’ll be sure to get you in touch with Brody. In the world of Davidson Impact Fellows (DIF), Carell Brown has been finding a lot of personal and professional joy from her position with Communities In Schools where she is in charge of a Park Road book tree for her students. Each year this small, locally run, bookstore in Charlotte puts up a tree the day after Thanksgiving for their patrons to sponsor students; this year more than 350 students were sponsored. Just a short drive away from Charlotte, Kenneth Westberry is also a member of DIF and works for The Georgia Justice Project out of Atlanta. He
considers himself the “front door man,” and is in charge of handling all initial calls and inquires for assistance. In his position he has to effectively inform callers on expungement options and current statures that affect such options. Leah Baldasare, Kaitlin Roberts, and Taylor Riley, on the other hand, escaped the work place for a week when they visited Andrea Pauw in Merida, Mexico. Also, in the area was Paul Spellings who traveled with Whitley Raney to explore the archeological and natural wonders of the Yucatan Peninsula. Up in New York, Alex Hauer writes that he, Eliza Dewey and Matilda Solinger are living together in the East Village part of Manhattan. All three of them appear to be enjoying their time in the city and are “exploring the wonders of life, love, and work.” It used to be a party of four in the apartment, but Caroline Gordon just moved from New York to Boston, where she works at a Boston children’s hospital. Be well, 2013. Enjoy the rest of the summer and keep in touch! Contact: Billy Hackenson, 92 West Paces Ferry Rd., Apt. 7023, Atlanta, GA 30305; whackenson@gmail.com Mel Mendez, Mérida, Yucatán; +52 (999) 3610315; melmendez91@gmail.com Summer 2014
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