Class Notes Heather Lawrence Hopper is leaving the classroom after nine years to pursue her dream of teaching yoga full-time. She is getting her Yoga for the Special Child certification and will be teaching yoga to children with developmental differences in conjunction with The Warren Center in Richardson. She continues to do after-school yoga classes at Lakehill and Good Shepherd Episcopal School, and tutor children with learning differences. For the work they do with children and yoga, Heather and a yoga colleague recently won the Tom’s of Maine and Yoga Journal contest to attend the Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park Colorado! Nancy Fallen is now Manager of Operations at MAXIMUSalliance, which is a small consulting firm that provides companies with cost savings and recovery. Nancy will oversee research and analysis and lead client management in business process improvement, communication and reports. She also recently had a great time catching up with Margaret Roberts, Emilie Mennel Collins, Sarah Fry Close, Maryam Toofanian Morse, Michael Greenfield, Emily Eldredge, Stuart Newsome and Lisa Gala. Congratulations to Lexi Hart who received her
graduate degree in Cinema and Television from SMU. She wrote her thesis on female television spy heroes. She recently got a Bichon puppy, Chewie. Jackie Lokey Kelley and her three children enjoyed a family vacation in Italy. All is well here in D.C. I got to hang out with Maya Metni Pilkington and Katherine Smitherman at the Hockaday alumnae event in D.C., and it was great fun. I also want to give a very special thank you to Nancy Fallen. I have been so lucky to have made such great and enduring friendships since my Hockaday days, and Nancy sent me a care package of delicious cookies in order to survive the crazy winter we had. It was so kind and amazing and I am truly grateful. I look forward to catching up with all of you soon.
Lynde Jones Schoellkopf ’90 and her daughter Willow
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Cindy Casey Brown ’93 with her son Frank
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to their joy,” she says. Shannon Morris Warden is now living in Overland Park, Kansas. She and her husband, Brad, have two children, Jack and Ella. Pamela Jaffe is still living in New York City Class Agents – Communications: and working in the Weight Watchers financial Mary Clare Jalonick, mjalonick@ap.org planning department. She says she is also working Rani Khamesra, ranikhamesra@yahoo.com part-time as a consultant for mbaMission, an Cindy Casey Brown, cbrown@caseybrownlaw.com organization which helps potential business Merry Munson Wyatt, merrymunson@yahoo.com school candidates draft their applications for toptier MBA programs. Nidhi Monga Nakra recently Hello everyone! Andi Abrile de Guala lives in Santa Fe, Argentina, where her husband Augustin is an moved to Austin after living in Los Angeles for orthopedic surgeon. Andi manages his practice, six years. She left her job at the Centers for and they have two kids, Lola and Salvador. She’s Disease Control when her daughter, Amiya (2), also a part-time student and travels a lot between was born and is now working part-time for a Santa Fe, Buenos Aires and Cordoba, where she non-profit doing policy and advocacy work grew up and where her parents still live. “I will in the field of immunizations. Angelica “Heli” have to look at Facebook more often to catch Marin Hill is continuing her love for adventure up with all of you,” she says. “But having little and travel. She recently went to Tanzania with kids doesn’t give me a lot of free time!” Lynn Roadmonkey Adventure Philanthropy for two weeks. She climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest Drum Lanyon says she is working as fundraising point in Africa, and built a new kitchen with a chairwoman for her children’s school in Chicago. focus on fuel-efficient “It is time-consuming stoves for a village and a lot of work, but the school. Cindy Casey challenge is welcome and rewarding,” she Brown writes: “I am Pamela Jaffe ’93 says. Hillary Allbritton working for myself partis still living in New York City and time as an attorney and Kokes says her daughter writing grants for nonHadley is beginning working in the Weight Watchers profit organizations. Ed preschool two days a and I can’t believe how week and she’s spending financial planning department. fast our son, Frank (2), is part of her free time growing and changing. working with the Junior We are so excited League of Raleigh. Teel that we are expecting a new baby in October.” Jaffe Tishgart is a running queen. She writes that she ran the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Julie Rhoda Larson returned to the Borlaug with a time of 1 hour 43 minutes. She ran the Institute for International Agriculture at Texas whole race with Jessica Gagnon Menendez. She A&M University in April 2010 as the Assistant Director for Partnerships. In the new position, plans to run the MetroPCS Dallas White Rock she says she hopes to “continue my grandfather’s Marathon in December. Laura Sotelo Santellana (Norman Borlaug) legacy through developing graduated from SMU Dedman School of Law in agricultural partnerships between public, private May. Congrats! Emily Eldredge says she is having a and philanthropic groups and expand upon his wonderful time acting in commercials and films mission to feed the world’s hungry.” On a sad in and around Dallas. “I also host my own radio note, we were all so saddened by the death of show on live365.com called ‘Consult the Muse,’ inspiring people to let go of fear and commit Lauren Smiley, friend to so many, in March 2010.
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