house! It won’t be ready until next summer, so she’s not moving for a while, but she says it gives her time to shop! She invites everyone to come visit the beach! Claire will be in Dallas the first weekend of March, when her seventh-grade daughter participates in the National Cheerleading competition. It will be a little crazy with lots of tumbling girls, but she hopes to see some of you! Her son is starting sixth-grade band, and they are being treated to the initial squawking sounds of the clarinet. She thinks she will like it soon. Her husband just completed a
the day he can read. Melinda Bell Nugent recently had lunch with Wendy Prideaux Kumpf and Natalie Spencer Lorio for Natalie’s birthday. Natalie’s daughter Caroline is a freshman at UVA, Wendy’s son Richard is a sophomore at Ole Miss, and Melinda’s son Caton is a sophomore at Baylor. Natalie is building a new house, and Melinda’s daughter Chloe was Annie in April with Dallas Summer Musicals Academy. Vivian Pflanzer’s baby Evan just turned one year old on September 10! She is amazed at how time flew by so fast. She also started an online
is great friends with Susan Maclay Keene’s daughter Izzy), she was lucky enough to get to see Margaret Flanagan Solomon, Janie Dunne Cooke, and Irene Stalcup Forero. Rebecca Enloe Fletcher came to New York for Labor Day weekend, and stopped by for a catch-up visit. Holly Harris Harris and her husband Kye will celebrate their 25th anniversary June 17, 2014. She will have to wait until next year to let everyone know how they celebrated. Congrats! They are blessed with three precious, active children. Two of Holly’s children – Campbell (fourth grade) and Harper (second grade) – love Hockaday. Holly is Associate General Counsel for Borden Dairy Company. My younger daughter Landry is in second grade at Hockaday, and I just had the privilege of seeing my older daughter Hayden present the new character program for Hockaday as a fourth grade senior. As we enter into this momentous 100th year of Hockaday, it should make all of us proud that we can say we are alumnae of The Hockaday School! – Elise • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
1986 Hayden Parteli, daughter of Elise Black Parteli ’85; Sophie Podeszwa; Leena Mehendale; Eleanor Lockhart, daughter of Michelle Morgan Lockhart ’87; Laura Taten, daughter of Allison Campfield Taten ’89; Mina Raj; and Joni Hurley on their first day in fourth grade at Hockaday, Fall 2013
Class Agents – Communications: Carolyn Perot Rathjen carolynrathjen@sbcglobal.net
three-week Fulbright Scholarship to England and Scotland, looking at higher education administrative practices. She was very proud of him, but it was pretty wonderful to have him home again. Linley Young’s 13-year-old daughter, Kathryn, participated in the YMCA National Gymnastics competition in Savannah, Georgia, in July. Their entire family went along and made it part of a two-week summer vacation. They visited all of the Disney theme parks, as well as the Kennedy Space Center. Kathryn has just started ninth grade. Her seventh grader, Laurissa, decided to switch from playing flute to trombone, so she’s been practicing madly to catch up with the rest of her band. Her four-year-old son, Dominic, has learned the phonetic sounds of the alphabet. She is eagerly anticipating
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organic baby boutique called Organic Treasure, which is allowing her the freedom to stay home with the baby (www.organictreasure.net)! This is something she’s been wanting to do for quite a while. Elizabeth Oldham Collett lives on the North Shore of Long Island in Glen Cove, New York. They are about 30 miles east of the city. She and her husband John just celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary. She says life is fun and full with three teenagers: Porter (18) in twelfth grade, Elizabeth (16) in eleventh grade, and Margaret (13) in eighth grade. She is self-employed as an interior designer, and involved with the children’s schools and with the Garden Club. When she was in Dallas this summer, dropping off her youngest daughter for sleep-away camp at Camp Balcones Springs (she
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1987 Class Agent – Communications: Kathy McLane Gersch kmmgersch@aol.com Cynthia Battle Shafer survived (and embraced) 80 days straight living on a boat this summer off Block Island with four kids and two pups onboard! They also traveled around New England on outings away from Block Island. Shanda Haley Blackmon was promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery and CT Surgery at Cornell through Houston Methodist Hospital, while being Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Methodist. All this with a new baby
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