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Courtney and Jim Goodwin ’97 with their two sons.
Jon Constable ’97 (left) and Bill Allen ’97 enjoyed a surprise reunion in Monkton, Md.
Force major and founder and president of Citadel Logic, specializing in logistics, energy security, medical services and emergency management.
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Bill Allen (H) 919-781-0805 (O) 919-784-8371 williamwallen@gmail.com 20th Reunion: June 2017
Greetings, classmates! I hope you guys continue to enjoy my semi-annual creative writing exercises, because it’s time for another one! We’re all off being busy and grown-up, generally speaking (not Finny), so the updates continue to arrive with less frequency, but with no less excitement. We have some baby news, some chance classmate encounters, and a few professional updates. I get the impression that most of us are now on Facebook, except for J.W. Perry, who has apparently become a Luddite (look it up). The good news is that it gives us all a way to drop in on each other and continue to feel connected. Instagram has also started to pick up a little bit, and I see a few of our classmates there. If you enjoy looking at pictures of what people eat for dinner, shot artistically, and fed through a retro-camera filter, then Instagram is the app for you. Our beloved alma
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mater is now on it, and they’ve found what I think is another cool way to keep us connected and remind us how good we used to look (or how much hair we used to have). If you’re on Instagram, or decide to get on it, connect to the @ episcopalhs username. Each Thursday, feel free to throw up some pictures from our days on campus and use the hashtags #90sLegend, #EHS, #throwbackthursday and #tbt. If you don’t know what a hashtag is, or Instagram, or Facebook, then I’ve probably just caused you to have a stroke. Anyway, check it out. It’s pretty cool. Okay, so as far as I know, I got two big baby announcements. From San Francisco, home of potential Super Bowl champion 49ers, Sarah Ravenel Dollens let me know that William “Henry” Dollens was born on Christmas Eve. Everyone seems to be doing well out there, and Henry is already looking forward to being shortchanged on Christmas and birthday presents for the rest of his life. Also, Jim Goodwin told me that Duncan Robert Goodwin was born on Jan. 15. In addition to his continued development in the McDonald’s (MacDowell’s) franchise program, Jim is running out of spare time at a rapid rate. He tells me that everyone is doing well. Congrats to both the Dollens and the Goodwins! I heard from Patricia Kinser, who had a nice little mini-reunion with some pals. She got together with Shriti Patel, Lesley Hicks, and Lissa Williams Gupton ’96 in Richmond for some lunch. Sounds like they had a great time
catching up, although it couldn’t have been nearly as fun as spending New Year’s Eve at Shriti’s house our freshman year of college. I’m sure the lunch spawned an unforgettable moment or two though! Patricia has settled fully into her role as a professor at VCU (Go Rams!), and she and her husband have recently adopted a puppy. Patricia is a “first-time caller, long-time listener” to my little class notes blog here. I hope to get more updates in the future from her! Joe Segrave shared with me that he got together with Bennett White in Asheville recently for dinner. I’m not sure if Bennett was in town for vacation or for lawyering, but knowing Bennett, it was probably a little bit of both. Joe also sees a good bit of Hal Berry ’95 and Thomas Roth ’82, both of whom live in Asheville. Hal is an old buddy of mine from Raleigh as well, and he and I have reconnected via email some since he moved back to North Carolina from New York. As it happened, Joe sent me a text message last night out of the blue asking for a refresher on a story involving a classmate that I can under no circumstances repeat here. Let’s just say it was a throwback moment that got me laughing nearly uncontrollably as I was supposed to be writing this. Thanks for the laugh, Joe! In the last issue, C.A. Spivey Rountree was surprised to discover that she has secretly been married to Nick Carosi all along. It must have been a sobering moment for her. If you saw the picture from the Reunion, when all those folks were at a karaoke bar, C.A. and Nick were mistakenly captioned as spouses. She’s still in shock. She said she and her real husband are having a great time in D.C. with their two kids. She’s writing a blog, training for races, and devotedly using the aforementioned social media. Get on it, folks! While things don’t change much in Raleigh (that’s actually not true, the city itself has changed a lot), I have had a couple of great run-ins with classmates over the last few months. Over Thanksgiving, I was in Monkton, Md., with my extended family. We went over to the big blessing of the hounds event prior to a big fox hunt, and I ran into
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