good!” Krishinda Lee is enjoying helping people as a physical therapist and is adjusting to her new role as the clinic director for Pivot Physical Therapy in Greensboro. She continues to coach, travel and perform with the Bouncing Bulldogs jump rope team.
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Andrew Weinhold andrew.weinhold@gmail.com As the DA family grows in size and accomplishment, exciting news continues to roll in. Anne Stevens Cable, along with her husband, Andy, and son, Prescott, proudly welcomed baby Davis in April. In addition to this exciting new addition, they are enjoying being nearby in Raleigh while Anne continues to work for Dell, just like classmate and current Texan Andrew Juer. David Hutchings is also enjoying life in Raleigh after recently moving from Virginia with his wife, Lauren. He has been busy teaching, coaching cross country and lacrosse, and spending time with his dog, Scout. Another new returnee, Jenny Drucker Varner finished her MS in medical science at Boston University in May 2015. She began medical school at Duke in August before marrying Luke Varner in October. Also at Duke Med, Sarah Goldstein will soon begin her fellowship in cardiology alongside fellow doctor and fiancé Marc Samsky. Their wedding will take place this May in Pittsboro, and the couple’s new labradoodle, Wallace, wishes he could come along to chase the cows. Still in a tie with Sarah for biggest Duke basketball fan to attend UNC Medical School, Jake Stein made the move to Seattle in 2015 to begin his residency in internal medicine
at the University of Washington. He still has time to decide on a specialty, but is considering a career in oncology (when he isn’t busy playing acoustic grunge sets at local coffee shops). Jake was especially excited to learn recently that he will have the opportunity to do a rotation in Kenya early next year, where he will work at the Naivasha District Hospital for one month. After much hard work, Adrienne Swanstrom finished her Ph.D. in microbiology at UPenn last November and immediately moved to Maryland, where she started a postdoctoral fellowship in the AIDS and Cancer Virus Program within the National Cancer Institute at Fort Detrick. She and her fiancé, Josh, are enjoying the chance to explore the D.C. area, although their hearts are still very much in Philly — especially since they have been busy planning their wedding there for the end of May. To the surprise of few, Rich Preyer remains loyal to states founded in the late 1780s that share the brook trout as their state fish. He will finish his master’s in environmental science at Antioch University in New Hampshire before returning to Asheville this summer to work as an environmental education specialist at the North Carolina Arboretum. He could not be more thrilled for the opportunity to spread his knowledge of the great outdoors. After finishing law school in Oregon, Jeff Speir accepted a job as an attorney with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. While Rich teaches about the environment, Jeff’s work focuses on enforcing the nation’s clean water laws. Upon making the trek back to the East Coast, Jeff is excited to again be close to hometown friends and family. The District of Columbia
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to report many is becoming a Reunion great things popular spot DURHAM ACADEMY for the ladies for the Class FALL ALUMNI WEEKEND and gentlemen of 2005, as SEPT. 23 & 24, 2016 of OH-SIX. Jamihlia Spread the word. (I’ll try to only Johnson Register at www.da.org/alumni. type-shout that graduated from on our reunion years). I wrote last Northwestern’s Tax LLM program year from the Taipei airport at the and is now working for Price start of a three-month Southeast Waterhouse Cooper’s national office in Washington. She works in Asia adventure. About a month international tax planning, advising later, LaQuesa Gaillard joined me for another two amazing months, multinational corporations about and we returned just in time for their taxes and staying abreast Kyle Sloate’s bachelorette in of newly issued tax laws and regulations (like the Treasury’s new Wilmington. Except we don’t call proposed regulations on companies her Kyle Sloate anymore, because she married Rob Kirkland (’07) moving headquarters offshore). on October 24! Kyle is now a After spending time in windy physician assistant in foot and ankle Chicago at Northwestern and surgery and she loves her job, both working at Holland and Knight, the clinic and operating sides. She Jamihlia is thrilled to be back on wrote from Miami, where she was the East Coast. She hopes to work visiting Holly Gleason with Eliza on building her career while having Sholtz and LaQuesa Gaillard. The fun and connecting with other DA wedding bells continue with Rachel alums in the D.C. area. Catherine Pea, who married Michael Blake Harrell is also starting to make waves in the business world. After on March 5. Nico Bollerslev and Happi Adams were bridesmaids. a few years managing a design Rachel is currently teaching AP team at Amazon Web Services, Catherine joined an MBA program World History at Uncommon at Stanford in the fall. This summer Preparatory Charter High School in Brooklyn, and “really loving she will intern at Foundation life in the quieter, cooler borough.” Capital, a Silicon Valley venture Drew Sutton is enjoying his last capital firm, searching for the few months in Chicago with his next big thing in tech. From wife while he finishes business coast to coast (and beyond), this school at the University of Chicago. class continues to build families, resumés, networks, reputations and Drew and Fran were married on passports. Thanks to all who made Sept. 19, and they’ll be moving back to North Carolina in June the 10-year reunion a success, and after his graduation. He says that here’s to many more. once he returns “to the real world,” he’ll be working for a real estate investment firm. Speaking of the real world, Logan Roberts is a Imani Hamilton model for Chubbies Shorts (out of imani.hamilton@gmail.com San Francisco) and was recently It’s been 10 years, y’all. Ten whole given a two-year contract. No, I’m years since that sweaty graduation not kidding. You also may have seen him dancing in the Macy’s on the quad. In 2016, I’m happy
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