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Whaley lives with her husband, John, and two sons, Charlie (7) and Jackson (5), who attend Durham Academy. She works in the finance department at The Hill Center. Meredith White Howell has been living in Atlanta since 2012, when her husband started working for Georgia Tech. They have two daughters, Lena and Lillian, both of whom are big Yellow Jacket fans. They get to spend a lot of time with their neighbor and DA alumna Natalie Lowe Raab ’99 and her family. However, they are looking forward to escaping the Hotlanta summer and spending some time in Durham while her oldest daughter attends DA summer camp! Our world traveler, Brooke Staton, is finishing up her fifth year in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is excited to be moving to Vienna, Austria, in August, where she has accepted a kindergarten teaching position at the American International School. August will mark the start of her tenth year living abroad and her third continent! Charlie Hart just moved back to NYC after five years in London, and he’s expecting a baby this September. Meghan Hansing MacNabb and her husband are living in Garner. She works at BB&T in downtown Raleigh and is a team leader for a group of analysts that administers corporate retirement plans. Her daughter, Olivia, turned 4 in April and her 15-year-old step-daughter, Zoe, is about to close out her sophomore year in high school and loves to remind Meghan how old she is! Matt MacKelcan released a new album “From Where I Stand” in late fall, and it is available on iTunes/Spotify. It was nominated by Indie Music
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Digest as Album of the Year 2014. Matt will be going on a tour throughout the East Coast in July/August and would love to see some DA friends. He ran into Bob Brownlee briefly at MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina. I, Kadi Thompson, moved to Los Angeles last summer and commute to San Francisco every other week for work (still in merchandise planning at Sephora). When I’m not soaking up the sun in LA, I’m getting to enjoy time with my beautiful niece and nephew in the Bay Area, so life couldn’t be better!
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Kate Lessey Laine Kathryn.laine@gmail.com Molly Shaw is still living in Charlotte and working for Communities In Schools, a nonprofit student support and dropout prevention organization. Together with her husband, Dave, she welcomed Maxwell (Max) Shaw Webb into the world on Oct. 29 of last year. Max is a digital native and enjoys FaceTiming with Betsy Fox, who writes that she is still loving San Francisco and Google and doing lots of traveling. Anna Rogers Pfeiffer writes, “This year was a big one for me, as my husband Zach and I welcomed our own little boy into the world on 4/28/14! The year has just flown by though — he’s walking now and getting into everything. He loves our little mini-farm, especially watching the goats and chickens. We got to travel a lot this past year as well, which has been fun if not a little different with a baby :) Just living life and watching this little
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one grow; it’s everything I could ask for!” Nick Torrey is happy to report that his son, James, will be starting kindergarten at DA this fall. Alison Sexton Salvatori is enjoying being a stay-at-home mom in St. Louis with her four kids (Molly, 7, Adele, 6, Penelope, 3 and Joe, 1). She’s staying busy with carpool, gymnastics, Girl Scouts, swimming and bike riding, and still slowly publishing her graduate schoolwork on the side (check out American Journal of Physiology for those interested). Natalie Kaplowitz Hutchinson is enjoying motherhood immensely and writes that her daughter, Hannah Culver, will turn 1 on July 9. “My position as dean of students at Charlotte Country Day School keeps me on my toes and has been incredibly rewarding. Each day is different, both at home and at work!” Jon Enberg and Anne are living in San Francisco and have added a furry member to the family — their dog, Sisu. Cheryl Stephens Meyer writes, “In 2013, I finished a master’s in library science and started working as a children’s librarian in Asheboro. Our daughter, Corinne, is already looking forward to turning 4 and becoming a big sister in November! When we are not hanging out at the [N.C.] Zoo with the polar bears, we are usually traveling to visit friends and family all along the East Coast.” Wylie Carhartt is completing residency in internal medicine and pediatrics and has accepted a position with Mountain Park Health Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He ends his update with some especially happy news, “My wife, Lauren
Carhartt, and I are expecting our first child in October.” Brad Hardy writes that he still makes it back to Durham frequently to see his parents. “These days, I live in the D.C. metro area and work as a professor at American University in the School of Public Affairs. Hoping everyone in ’98 is doing well …” And lastly, I (Kate Lessey Laine) am still living in the Helsinki area, working for Philips Healthcare and trying to keep up with my sons, Gabriel, 6, and Benjamin, 3. I get together with Ulla Ryynänen when our schedules allow — she’s focused on finishing her Ph.D. While I don’t get the chance to visit the States very often, by a stroke of blind luck, I did happen to find myself in downtown Durham on the night of Duke’s NCAA championship win!
1999
Nina Jacobi Nina.jacobi@gmail.com Molly Prentis Richey and her husband, Brent, moved to Chicago last August and welcomed a baby girl, Elizabeth (Ellie) Nixon Richey, in December. After graduating with her master’s in educational administration last May, Molly has decided to put a hold on her career for a bit to stay home with her daughter. “It has been a whirlwind with a new baby in a new city,” says Molly — but they are loving it so far. Tess Tabor Day is living in Seattle with her husband, Ryan, and two sons: Jack, age 2, and Liam, born May 1. In her “free time,” Tess is a senior stylist for Stella & Dot and an area director for AuPairCare. Mike Dolan and his family are living in Davenport,