Class Notes home in Stratton, Vermont. The most notable Hockaday event in the past several years is that my daughters surprised me with two guests for my 50th birthday at Gramercy Tavern, Jean Self Monte and Lisa Treigle Pratt.” Lynn Easley Drury writes: “After six years as associate vice chancellor for university communications at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, I am waiting for the next adventure to unfold. My husband, Doug, is completing his doctorate in psychology in Adelaide, Australia, and I have been going back and forth to visit him for the last 2 ½ years. Our children have four legs and fur. If anybody heads to Blowing Rock, let me know!” Mary Clutts writes: “My big accomplishment this month is learning to walk again – after stepping off the curb in San Francisco and successfully taking out two legs in one accident. I am happy to report that I am on track for not only walking, but my longer term goal of skiing next season at the same level as last season! Kathy Martin Oberthier and I have talked about a ladies weekend in the wine country.” Aimee Church Sheppard writes: “My husband Wayne and I celebrated our 30th anniversary this October. I have two daughters. I work for a home infusion pharmacy in Houston as a regional procurement manager.” Maggie Oman Shannon writes: “For the last 15 years, I’ve lived in San Francisco. I got married at age 40 to Scott Shannon, an architect, and became a mom at 45 when we adopted our daughter from China. I was recently ordained as an interfaith minister, and Carol Cleaveland attended my commencement ceremony. Currently I serve as the Spiritual Director of Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco. I have lunch from time to time with Mary Clutts, who works in downtown San Francisco.” Ainslie Taylor Nibert writes: “I live in Houston where I run the nursing and allied health testing division for a medical publishing company. My husband, Earl (who is a CPA/ senior accounting manager for KBR), and I have been married for 28 years, and we have two daughters.” Barbara Tayloe Jarratt writes: “We are still in Marietta, Georgia. My husband, Jess, is president of a Timberland REIT, and I am pursuing a master’s in marriage and family therapy and Christian counseling.” Leslie Heape Hopkins writes: “In October, my husband, Larry, and I celebrated our 29th anniversary. We have three children. I’ve worked for New York directsales fashion company Etcetera for the last 10 years. We attend Watermark Church, where I am a community Bible study leader.” Martha Vail Myre writes: “Currently, I am Senior Pastor at Leonard United Methodist Church (Leonard is a beautiful little town 30 miles northeast of McKinney). My husband, Chris, is a software engineer. I homeschooled three kids, now grown, and write a blog: http://pastormarthablog.blogspot.com.” Karen Veninga Driscoll writes: “After college in California and law school in Austin, I practiced law for a while in Dallas. In 1996, I moved to Washington, D.C. I got an LLM, became a trade lawyer, married and now I have a 10-year-old daughter. In my heart of hearts, I am still the same.” Carol Cleaveland writes: “I am now an hockaday magazine – Winter 2011 48
assistant professor at George Mason University, where I am studying Latino immigration. I live in Philadelphia with my partner of 10 years.” Elisabeth King Seibold writes: “In December 2009 I eloped to Sedona with John Seibold. We have a 4-year-old Weimaraner, Max. Currently, we are remodeling my M Street home. Life is an adventure, and we love trying it all!” Sharron Hunt Munson writes:“I live just down Welch Road from Hockaday. My husband, a Greenhill graduate, and I have four children together. We did it the hard way by meeting at age 35 and starting with our first child when I was 36. I serve on the boards of two non-profits: Soul’s Harbor, a homeless shelter for men with addiction issues (started by my grandfather in 1956) and Dallas Children’s Theater. See you at the reunion. Party chez-moi?”
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are spent at horse shows, or doing something with our horses, Harley and Butler, whose registered name is “When it Counts.” Mike and I stay busy with our respective companies: his software firm and my furniture showroom in the Dallas World Trade Center.” As for me, Sarah Longinotti Rosenthal, my husband and I are now empty nesters!
1979 No Class Agent Priss Benbow had case studies of two clients profiled in Marketing Public Relations, a college marketing textbook published by Prentice Hall. Kate Belknap ’79 lives in Grand Junction, Colorado, teaches English at Mesa State College and manages the Powderhorn Ski and Snowboard School and Rental.
Class Agents - Communications: Sarah Longinotti Rosenthal, smlrose@aol.com Lydia Connally McClanahan, lydiamac@mac.com Angie Thomas, catmus@swbell.net
Lauren Savage (Class of 2011), Kendall Burney Wilson ’82, Rick Wilson and Jessica Savage (Class of 2015) at Kendall and Rick’s wedding
Janice Schwarz writes: “Besides working full time
as Director of Operations at American Beacon Advisors for almost 20 years, and mom of a 7-yearold and 8-year-old, I have been a political activist. I was elected as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which was a lifetime experience. I am currently the President of the Far North Dallas Democrats Club. Our club was responsible for recruiting and providing the initial campaign staff for Carol Kent, who defeated a 20year Texas State House incumbent.” Jodi Hadsell has been performing standup comedy for two years. She took a comedy class in 2008 on a lark and ended up actually liking it. Although she just recently became a comedian, she has been training for it all of her life. She says, “I guess when you feel like you were dropped from an alien ship into your family, you see things a little differently from most people.” Jodi was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Funniest Comic contest in Dallas at the Addison Improv, and she is a regular performer in “Four Funny Females” in both Dallas and McKinney. Jennie Smith Wilson still lives in Ridgewood and sees Lisa Garvey frequently. Sandy Flippo: “I left advertising in 2009 and have become an Indian art and jewelry dealer. I sell mainly in Texas, California and New Mexico and collaborate with a long-time trader who is in her 90’s. There is never a dull moment and I meet many strange and fascinating people.” Helen Graeber Overstreet writes: “We are traveling when not keeping Mike’s grandkids. He has six so we stay busy since they live in three different states – Kentucky, Colorado and Wisconsin. I have studied the Bible very faithfully through Explorer’s Bible Study program for 10 years, and Mike and I took a three-week trip to the Holy Land in March.We went to Jordan, Israel and Egypt.” Vicki Bixler Gill writes: “Our daughter Larkin has been eventing since she was 8 and dreams of riding for the US Olympic team some day. Most of our weekends
1982 Class Agents - Communications: Polly Dossett Whittle, pollywhittle@yahoo.com Thalia Sarris Banowsky, thaliabanowsky@mac.com Phyllis Whiteside Fredricksen and her family
took a European cruise in the summer of 2009, where they visited London, Copenhagen, Taalin, St. Petersburg, Berlin and Helsinki, then spent 10 days in Norway. Presley Stokes Troyer says that she is a busy mom of three, living in the Bay Area, substitute teaching, driving a lot, running a lacrosse club, and doing yoga when she can. Kendall Burney recently got married to Rick Wilson, who is a retired career Marine who works as an engineer for Sigma Valves. They married at Lee Park with a reception at Arlington Hall. Since Kendall left teaching at Hockaday two years ago, she has been tutoring English and Spanish and helping high school seniors with their college applications. Her daughter Lauren is in Form IV, and her daughter www.hockaday.org