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Army Captain on March 1 in a promotion ceremony where my husband, Captain David Gilliland, USMC, pinned me and brought our son to share in this happy memory. We have had a great time at Fort Sill, where I served as a Platoon Leader for a Transportation Company in the 75th Fires Brigade and deployed to Iraq for the retrograde in 2011. I was promoted to Executive Officer in the same company as they assumed a Global Response Force mission under United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM) before becoming a Staff Officer for the brigade support battalion in 2013. My husband served as an instructor for lieutenants in the Officer Course at Fort Sill and was able to make valuable improvements to their current program of instruction. We are currently preparing to move to Fort Lee, Va., for my Captain’s Course and will get orders for our next duty station this summer. We have had a very blessed 2014 and look forward to much more to come! I look back on my time at Flintridge Sacred Heart with fond memories and was sorry to miss our 10-year reunion. I can’t believe it’s already been 10 years! I’ve stayed in contact with so many of my friends from high school that it feels like it was only yesterday when we graduated as hopeful seniors preparing for college and the challenges that lay ahead. Long may FSHA prosper and prepare future generations of strong women for success in everything that they do and contribute to our world. (7) Annie Rose Ramos ’04, Alhambra: At present, I am a digital correspondent and producer at Fusion Network – the joint venture of ABC News and Univision. I work on the weekly news and satire show called “Open Source” in addition to developing long-term investigative pieces for our digital audience, such as a piece about the migrant community in the Coachella Valley just down the road from where the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was recently held. Based in our Los Angeles bureau, I have been fortunate to cover stories from the West Coast, including marijuana legislation and the migrant farming community. Ashley Torres ’04, Los Angeles, was profiled on the website Career Contessa
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about her career switch from accountant to blogger and social-media manager. Torres runs her own shoe blog, Pursuit of Shoes (pursuitofshoes.com), and works for REVOLVE Clothing. Read the interview at careercontessa.com/ashley-torres.
be friends with this lovely group of girls? And when we’re all together, we just have so much fun and we’re loud and we have so many inside jokes that others don’t understand. It really reminds me of those FSHA days.
Sarah Yang ’07, New York, N.Y.: After last year’s brunch and this year’s tea, I so look forward to our NYC reunions. It’s so nice to know that there is a FSHA community on the East Coast. Although, I guess I already knew that, because I still see Lauren Hernandez ’05, Natalie Howard ’07, Amanda Huang ’07, Alia Haddad ’06, Andrea Borgen ’06 and Meagan Brown ’07 regularly. In fact, Lauren, Andrea and I had Thanksgiving dinner at Amanda’s apartment in Brooklyn this past year. Lauren and Andrea can cook a mean turkey!
I still love New York, but as each year goes by I find myself missing California and my family more and more. I can’t believe I’ve been living here for almost seven years – time has really flown by! It’s hard because if I want to stay in magazines/publishing, New York is certainly the place to be! For now, I’m just taking things day by day and enjoying being an adult in the “real world.”
It’s so special that we’re able to have these wonderful events where we can reconnect with old classmates and even meet some alums from other generations. It really shows that FSHA is not just a school, but it’s also a community and family that will stay with you for life. It’s funny when people seem surprised that I still keep in touch with all my high school friends, and I don’t find it surprising at all. To me, it’s a foregone conclusion. Why wouldn’t I still
Sarah Zwart Carlin ’08, Seattle, Wash., married her husband Davis in a ceremony on the Hill on June 22, 2013. (8) Nicole DeMont ’09, Glendale, graduates this spring from Stanford with a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Communications. As one of the top 25 members of the College of Humanities and Sciences’ Class of 2014, she received the J. Wallace Sterling Award. At a ceremony on April 26, she was honored along with a former teacher of her choice, and she