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other Hockadaisies at the reunion event in Albuquerque at Los Poblanos. Hayley Juster married Alex St. Clair (St. Mark’s), and Vina Lervisit, Monica Sanga, and Jennifer Marino were all bridesmaids. Marissa Garrison celebrated her anniversary in South Africa, swimming with sharks and petting lions. She is in the last year of her M.B.A. at UT Austin McCombs School of Business. ••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
2005 Class Agents – Communications: Allison Richie allison.richie@gmail.com Elizabeth Lintel lizlintel@gmail.com Michelle Fox michelle.ashley.fox@gmail.com Molly Bierman mollybierman@gmail.com Abigail Hoak ahoak@smu.edu Ellen Parkhurst ecparkhurst@gmail.com Krystin Meidell is in her second year of a doctoral program at the University of Utah. She serves on the Advisory Board of the local Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter, and also volunteers with the Sundance Film Festival. Robin Featherston has recently moved back to Dallas from Tucson, and is working as a senior contracts negotiator for Raytheon. Kelsey
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Swingle Robertson has also recently returned to Dallas after a year in Germany. Alex Baker is still in Dallas and works in marketing at Dallas Modern Luxury, Dallas Brides, and Modern Luxury Interiors Texas magazines. She lives with Hockaday classmate Allison Richie. Allison recently stepped into a new role as a campus recruiter for Epsilon. She enjoys serving on the Hockaday Alumnae Board and ArtReach board. Marie McLean is also in Dallas, and recently began working as a CPA at PricewaterhouseCoopers after receiving her master’s in accounting earlier this year. Taylor Bigler lives in D.C. and writes about pop culture for a startup political website, and lives with fellow Daisies Mary Kemp and Amy Rush. Sasha Stewart still lives in New York, and works as a graphics researcher at The Colbert Report. “Any time you see a graphic on the show, I found it!” Sasha writes. She got married in April and her husband, Nate Charny, is nominated for an Emmy (writing for The Colbert Report)! Kristen Kane is in Dallas, working at Entertainmart with her dad. She got married to her college sweetheart in September; her co-maids of honor were Daisies Colleen Downs Edge and Abbie Ryan. Abbie still lives in Houston, and works on fuel cells for NASA. She is part of a leadership development program that has allowed her to travel to a number of different NASA offices around the country. Margretta Wikert is in Dallas, and recently bought half of the graphic design studio where she has been working for the past four years. Abby Hoak is also in Dallas, working in political fundraising postgraduation from SMU Law School. Maureen Pelletier writes all the way from Paris, where she is in her second year studying for a master’s in art history at the Sorbonne; her research focuses on a mansion built in 1634. She also works at the Centre Pompidou. Ellen Ciuba Parkhurst is in her final year as a member of the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. She has been helping build better stoves, which have improved ventilation and should decrease the
incidence of lung disease in the area. After the Peace Corps, she plans to move to Miami. Kathleen Campbell Parker just celebrated four years as a project manager at RHA Architects in Dallas. She also got married this past June to Josh Parker. Ashley Walker works at United Launch Alliance in Denver, and recently got her master’s in engineering from Colorado School of Mines. Whitney Manson Weiss has a digital marketing business and also helps in marketing for her husband’s watch company. She and her husband eloped this past summer, and now live in Los Angeles. Brittani Carter-Durant is excited to be back in Dallas after a few years in St. Louis, and is now working at Amazon’s Dallas office. Caroline Keener writes from San Antonio where she is working in the athletic department at Trinity University; she recently got promoted to assistant athletic director. Katy LaJone is in her third year of veterinary school at LSU; she particularly enjoyed her veterinary neurology/neuroscience clinic externship in Dallas this summer. Melissa Wong recently graduated with a doctorate in physical therapy from Texas Woman’s University, passed her boards in July, and now is a licensed physical therapist, specializing in pediatrics. She currently lives in North Carolina while her fiancé gets his M.B.A. at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, but will be moving back to Dallas when he graduates. Jordan Leri Jordan is newly married (please note the amazing new name!) and recently bought her first home in Columbus, OH. She was recently promoted to assistant ecommerce manager at The Limited. Jasmine Ainetchian is in her second year of M.B.A. study at Columbia Business School in New York, and spent the summer back in Dallas working for Boston Consulting Group. Audrey Decherd is also in Dallas, working as an RN on the neuro floor at Baylor. Caroline Garner is an associate at O’Melveny and Myers law firm in New York. She has gotten some traveling in, most recently to Mongolia and Portugal. Whitney Lynn is a sales and marketing