Class Notes proud parents to their daughter Maithili (17 months), who always keeps them entertained. Sarah Houldey Raggio was married on June 13, 2009, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and currently resides in Dallas with her husband John. Dena Fayad was the matron of honor. Other Hockaday attendees included Leigh Bailey, Nihal Fayad ’95 and Kelly Rahe Silvers ’95. The couple recently purchased their first house in the Lake Highlands area and are both busy with their respective law practices. Randal Rauscher Rhodus is in her eighth year teaching 2nd Grade at Hockaday. She and her husband have a daughter, Anderson (2), who attends Hockaday’s Child Development Center on campus. Nicole Stewart moved back to Dallas and is living in the M Streets area. In addition to operating a private Pilates practice out of her home, Nicole is acting in a play at Water Tower Theatre. Since moving back, Nicole has been able to catch up and get together with fellow classmates Mona Rowghani and Alicia Carter. Lauren Shawn recently completed her anesthesiology residency at UCSF in San Francisco. She and her fiancé moved to Philadelphia so Lauren can complete a oneyear pediatric anesthesia fellowship.
1999 Class Agents – Communications: Meredith Stites, meredithstites@gmail.com Kate Jeffrey Williamson, katelois101@aol.com Sara Frankfurt Gail, sara.f.gail@gmail.com Anne Hewitt Fischer, ahfischer1@gmail.com Charlotte Hudson, charlotteh@alumni.utexas.net
Chi Omega creed. Kelly also reports that she and Becca Nycum Elder were bridesmaids in Marion Abercrombie’s wedding to Dave Laubach (Cistercian ’99) in New Orleans on March 20. Meredith Casey Jarrett also married in New Orleans on May 8 to Ted Jarrett. The two met while living in New York. Meredith Stites and Lesley Phelan were in attendance. Ceylan Yukler is still living in Amsterdam and working on the global Adidas account with TBWA advertising agency. While Charlotte Hudson, celebrating two years with local ad agency Slingshot LLC, was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Slingshot Foundation by the firm’s CEO, in addition to her continuing role managing media planning and strategy. Andrea Choquette and Anne Fischer both graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, completing their MBAs. Andrea has accepted a full-time position with Clorox Brands in San Francisco, doing marketing strategy and consumer research. Robyn Schwartz Siegel is in Los Angeles pursuing her MA in art history, focusing on contemporary art and the environment. She continues to work with her mother in fine art consulting.
2000 Class AgentS – Communications: Sonya Mirbagheri, sonya.mirbagheri@gmail.com Lauren Rose Brown, lrbrown64@gmail.com Cassie Evans Decker, mary.cass.evans@gmail.com Mariana Pickering, dearmariana@gmail.com IB Stanley-Ikhilioju, ins3@cornell.edu
It was so wonderful to see everyone and catch up at our 10th reunion luncheon as well as our class event at Mattito’s in April! Thanks to Devonie Johnston Coble reports that she and her everyone who came (especially our classmates husband, McLean, have been enjoying time who came a long way such as Mariana Pickering, with their little girl Matilda “Barrett” Coble. Ruk Velamati graduated from med school in San who fortunately made it from Italy despite the Antonio and is starting her residency in Pediatrics volcanic ash), and thanks to Amy Barr Patrick at the University of Chicago! Sarah White came to and Jill Rosellini Ombrello for their help with her Match Day and is also moving to Chicago to the planning. We have such an amazing class start journalism school of lovely ladies and at Northwestern. Ruk there are so many and Sarah are so excited congratulations in to finally be living in the order. Congratulations Anne-Marie Corley ’99 same city again! Anneto Anne Catherine Marie Corley completed Savage who graduated is currently in Moscow, Russia, a master’s degree in from Harvard Law studying the Russian space science writing at School and will be MIT in 2009. She is spending the next program on a Fulbright grant. currently in Moscow, year in New Haven Russia, studying the working on domestic Russian space program violence policy before on a Fulbright grant. starting her job at the New York law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Melissa Corley is a captain in the Air Force and Congrats to Abby English who graduated from completing her dissertation research for her PhD in space systems engineering at the Naval Fordham Law School and moved to Dallas in Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In the summer. We also have many new brides October she moved to Washington, D.C., for her in our class. Congrats to Natalie Bayoud who next assignment. This past April, Kelly Brantley married Greg Anthony earlier this year, as well as Anar Rathod who married Sanil Patel in Little was presented with the 2010 Symphony Award by the Dallas Chi Omega Alumnae for Sherman, Texas, in April. Olivia Carleo married exemplifying the thoughts and ideals of the Joseph Eklund on April 10, 2010 in Italy. Sonya hockaday magazine – Winter 2011 62
Cassie Evans Decker ’00 with her husband Jake on their wedding day Mirbagheri and Alejandra Cejudo attended the
wedding. Among the many classmates we had a great time catching up with at our reunion was Tyler Lown who is excited to be back in Dallas after three years in L.A. and is now working for her dad as manager of corporate operations for his three companies. It was also great catching up with Casey Boyter. Casey was recently featured on Central Texas Gardener (a gardening show on PBS) discussing her passion – green roofs and their applications in Texas. She has spent the past six years researching ways to expedite the creation of the green roof industry in Texas, creating GRoWERS (green roofs: working expertise, regional solutions), a local network to further knowledge of green roofs. She is working directly with the city of Austin to create incentives for the technology. We were also able to catch up with CC Jones who received a master’s in clinical psychology (MACL) in December 2009, and is in the fourth year of her doctoral program, preparing to write her dissertation. Cassie Evans married Jake Decker on September 19, 2009, at the Breakwater in Kennebunkport, Maine. Brannon Cullum was Maid of Honor and Sarah Bartholow, Emilie Gioia and Erica Gioia Kuppin were bridesmaids. Jake and Cassie reside in Dallas where both are practicing attorneys. Cassie practices commercial litigation with Beasley, Hightower & Hartmann, P.C. and Jake practices bankruptcy law with Allmand & Lee. Please contact me if you have an update for the Hockaday Magazine! – Sonya
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