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ABOVE: April Bullard Beaupain ’99, husband Matt and sons Aiden, 11, Griffin, 2, and baby Paxton enjoy living in the Bay Area.
ABOVE: Bryan Tyler ’97 keeps busy in Raleigh with Cole, 5, Ryan, 7 months, and Alison, 3.
but am making a career change. This summer I will be training to be a Montessori primary teacher (for ages 3-5) at the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies and will begin a teaching internship at Barrie in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the fall.
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Kadi Thompson kadithompson@gmail.com Charlie Hart reports that after spending a few years back in Brooklyn, he and his wife and son moved to Bondi in Australia. With a new job, new country and a new baby on the way, 2017 is quite the big year! They have been enjoying the city of Sydney so far and all of the natural
beauty surrounding it. After a short two years in Austria, Brooke Staton has decided to move to Colorado for one year to pursue another master’s, this time in early childhood education. After that she’ll decide on whether she’ll stay and work in the U.S. or choose a new country. After 11 years living abroad she’s not 100 percent certain she wants to settle down in the U.S., but one year for school will fly by. Bryan Tyler and his family, including Cole (5), Ryan (7 months) and Alison (3) are all living the dream in Raleigh. Ashley Horton Freedman and her family live in Durham, where two of their three children attend Durham Academy. She encourages everyone to come back to Durham and DA and see how it
has changed. It her big sister Class of 1997 is really a fun Grace (6) Reunion place to raise a and brother DURHAM ACADEMY family. Morgan Josh (8). Sara HOMECOMING Edwards has been OCT. 13 & 14, 2017 Whaley also keeping busy Spread the word. lives in Durham with the new Register at www.da.org/alumni. and has a son, baby and also Charlie, in Ashley’s daughter’s coaching Grace’s softball team! third grade class and another Josh Lewis is currently the son, Jackson, in first grade, so US Architecture Team Lead they get to see each other a good for a Danish Pharmaceutical bit. Katie McClay is still living Engineering firm named in Chicago and working at Leo NNE. Jordan starts kindergarten Burnett. She and her husband, at Durham Academy in the Brady, welcomed their second fall. They live in Chapel Hill and son, Elliott Dawson, last May. things are going well. I, Kadi Most of their non-work hours are Thompson, am still in the Bay spent chasing Elliott and their Area but decided to quit my job oldest son, Andrew (3). Because in April and take a well-deserved of this, they haven’t taken any self-care sabbatical! I’m kicking exciting trips recently … rather off the summer with an eightshe feels lucky to have time for day silent meditation retreat in a cup of coffee and to be able Marin County. After that, I’m to read the paper! Sara Mayes heading to Europe for a month, Kaplan and her family live hitting up Barcelona, Stockholm, in Franklin, Tennessee. They Italy and then finishing it off welcomed their third (and last!) with a two-week trek through child in July. Claire James joins continued on page 91
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