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small business who recently Reunion lawyer with the bought a home DURHAM ACADEMY firm of Higgins, in Alexandria, HOMECOMING OCT. 13 & 14, 2017 Frankstone, VA — on Graves and Duke Street, no Spread the word. Register at www.da.org/alumni. Morris. Allison less, because Kirkland ran she takes into them recently at a brewery her Blue Devil fandom that in Durham and was excited to seriously. Amelia recently meet Chase! Allison is teaching started a new job as Assistant creative writing classes in General Counsel at the American Durham and recently became Chemistry Council in DC. Most engaged to her boyfriend Paul excitingly, she and her husband, Golightly (yes that’s his real Evan, welcomed their son, name!). She and Molly Kane Ashton, to the world on April 1, Frommer, Orla and Caroline 2017; the name was pretty easy grab dinner sometimes and to come up with. Anne Lacy really enjoy having community Gialanella relays that she is nearby. Recently re-joining also still in D.C. and recently the local DA alumni cohort is got to meet little Ashton (whom Jessica Streck Ortolano, who she reported was “adorable” just moved back from Baltimore — the co-writer of these notes and now works as an elementary thanks you, Anne!). Farther librarian at Ravenscroft (which north, in New York, is Maggie she acknowledged is DA’s McPherson Weir, who continues arch nemesis!). Katie Ballou to travel internationally as a Gardner, nearby in Salisbury, is lawyer with King and Spalding. keeping extremely busy juggling The travel is likely to slow a bit, her post as a kindergarten as Maggie is expecting her first ESL teacher with frequent half baby in July. Only a few West marathons. She ran her first Coasters emailed in this year, but full marathon at Oak Island they all had great news to share. North Carolina in February Hannah Farber gave birth to 2017. She’s happily married daughter Rina Miriam on March and was honored to be chosen 10, 2017! Her family will be as one of two educators from moving back to New York this North Carolina to become an summer as she joins the faculty at Apple Distinguished Educator. Columbia University as a history She was also a top five finalist professor. Brendan Bradley for Teacher of the Year in her never fails to chime in with his school district. Congratulations, news and thank us for keeping Katie! Misty Piekaar, who everyone so well informed. He works as a lawyer in Raleigh, reports that he is “living the wrote in with the fantastic news dream” at the moment, traveling that she was married on May 6, the world to film and screen 2017, to Matthew McWilliams his own movies. The novelty in Myrtle Beach. At the time of of seeing his commercials has her email, she was jetting off to still not worn off for us! Next Bermuda for their honeymoon. year is sure to bring more joyful Best wishes! Slightly to the news. Thanks to everyone who north is Amelia Ashton Thorn, contributed!
2003
Andrea Fjeld andreafjeld@gmail.com Every time I write these “class notes,” I am somehow surprised that another year has gone by and here we are, adults now, seemingly so far removed from our Cavalier days. And then I’m brought right back to making posters for Spirit Week, lunches with friends on the quads, learning (and laughing over) what “cleavage” — in the mineral sense — is in a seventhgrade science classroom, or lining up post recess yelling out “CTC.” Of course, “CTC” is now called “pre-kindergarten,” and many of those who were at DA way back when now have kids of their own old enough to be enrolled. Josh Considine offers an update on the past decade: After graduating from Case Western with a biomedical degree, he went to work as a reliability engineer for a Navy contractor in Maryland. Two years later his fiancée Meri joined him, and two years ago, they tied the knot. Their daughter, Margaret Cecelia, was born in mid-March. Their dogs are still adjusting to their expanded family. Will Halman is continuing his career in video. He bought his boss’s business last year and runs the small operation with a focus on teleprompting and speech prompting around the Triangle area and beyond. When not out on prompting gigs, he’s creating or coordinating closed captioning. Haley Lacefield Hall is getting ready to move from Cleveland to New Bern, where her husband will practice podiatry. They are excited to be coming home to the Tar Heel State. In another somewhat-recent homecoming, Mykas Degesys has returned to Durham, where he
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and his wife are expecting their first child in July. New parents might turn to Nancy Mountcastle Wall for advice. For the past year, she and her husband have been busy with their identical twin girls, Hannah and Laney. “Life is wonderful!” she says. Across the pond, Kyle Black is finishing his post-MBA rotational program at GSK. He’s just starting with a new team leading M&A and strategy projects for the incoming CEO. That will keep him in London until the end of 2018, he says. “After that, we’ll see!” And I’m still in New York (Brooklyn, of course) living with my boyfriend and aging cat in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood. I’m a copywriter at the Manhattan-based tech company LivePerson. In my spare time, I imagine how great it would be if I were more devoted to my short stories and children’s books instead of expanding my cooking repertoire with new vegetarian dishes and watching Broad City and getting too little sleep. Though I still marvel at it, I know the passage of time itself is unremarkable — and it’s the way in which it’s spent that’s worth writing about. To those of you who took the time to fill me in, thank you, again, for these notes and the memories they always evoke. And to the rest, well, I guess I’ll catch y’all on Facebook.
2005
Andrew Weinhold andrew.weinhold@gmail.com As usual, the Class of 2005 has been busy making memories and diving further into successful lives in the real world. Near and far, we continue to complete items from the adulthood checklist
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