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Annabell Jones McNew ’03 (left) with her bridesmaid, Becka Parker ’03.
Family and friends enjoyed the festivities when Katie Perry ’03 and Oliver Pryor ’03 were married on June 27, 2009, in Sea Island, Ga. Front row, left to right: Hannah Baldwin ’03, Elizabeth Pope ’03, and Clarence Mills ’03; second row: Graye Pelletier ’03, Charles Pryor ’99, Oliver Pryor ’03, Katie Perry Pryor ’03, Anne Perry Swift ’00, and Joe Stallworth ’03; third row: Lauren Pirrung ’03, J.W. Perry ’97, Wilkie Colyer ’03, Marla Woodford ’03, Jack Sibley ’03, and Alex Perry ’04.
absolutely nuts. I recently finished law school, took the bar, and moved to New York to study tax law for another year. Despite all the craziness, it has been wonderful to check out a new city. Also, I have to give Case Anderson a gold star for helping me out with the notes for this issue. I love hearing from everyone, so please feel free to e-mail updates, news, or just random asides! Though school has been challenging, I was happy to get to celebrate New Year’s in New Orleans with fellow classmate Michael Barraza. We were both in town celebrating the marriage of one of our mutual Vanderbilt friends. Both Barraza and Sanford Zeigler are finishing up medical school in Charleston. Barraza hopes to specialize in radiology, whereas Sanford is on the surgery path. They will learn their residency placements in March. In the meantime, Barraza will be traveling to Vienna to present research at the European Congress of Radiology, and Sanford will journey to the mountains of northern
Rwanda to assist at the Shirya Hospital, a mission hospital operated through the Rwandan Episcopal Anglican Church. Cord Smythe lives with Sanford in Charleston and captains merchant vessels out of Charleston Harbor. Case Anderson caught up with him over New Year’s, and he says he loves what he does. After working in consulting for nearly three years (specializing in torpedo sales), Case has gravitated back toward the independent school arena and is teaching high school English and writing at Commonwealth Academy in Alexandria. Case reports that the most shocking thing about the job for him has been realizing that, inexplicably, many of his students have seen “The Matrix” and thus insist on pronouncing his name “Mr. Anderson” with a vocal inflection previously reserved for Keanu Reeves. He lives in D.C. with Lee McLaughlin, who teaches science at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes and still holds the No. 1 ranking in the Mid-Atlantic
for stringing lacrosse sticks. Lee also enjoys spending quality time with his English Setter, Harlan. David Schoen is also in the District and lives with classmate Jack Sibley. David reports that he played for his company softball team this past summer and enjoyed a season that would have made Coach Brock proud! Ginny Moore also joined the fun in our nation’s capital, having moved to D.C. from New York last June. Ginny currently works at Episcopal as the assistant director of annual giving. Brad Tubesing, also in the D.C. area, reports that all is well and sends his best to everyone in the Class of 2003. Will Fedora and Steve Nash are enjoying life in D.C. as roommates in the always fashionable Glover Park neighborhood. Stuart Hartley recently finished his master’s degree in civil engineering and is currently working as an engineering consultant for KCI Technologies in Nashville. Gray Murray finished his master’s in accounting at Appalachian State last December and, after passing the C.P.A. exam, began working at Deloitte and Touche, LLP in Charlotte. Chris Joseph recently began M.B.A. studies at UT in Austin and reports that all is well. Courtney Kershaw has been living in Bogota, Colombia, teaching English and learning Spanish for the past year. She will remain there for another year and writes that she would be happy to have any visitors who may be down that way.
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