small neighborhood bar at night, and tends a popular whiskey/craft cocktail bar and restaurant called Jack Rose (voted 2013 Hottest Restaurant/Bar Scene in D.C.). In her rare spare time, she currently enjoys DIY decorating projects for her new apartment, and whipping up vegetarian recipes. She is proud to report she has given up her carnivorous ways for over a year! She is obviously someone to look up if you want a night on the town in D.C., so don’t be shy. Lucy Reid Murchison is in Dallas, and working hard as a mama and graphic designer. She has a line of paper goods and cell phone cases, and also does freelance projects for schools, individuals, and businesses, including a recent project for executives at Southwest Airlines. While she describes her life as “at times less than glamorous” as she’s chasing baby William around as cardio and keeping up with her Hockaday kindergartner, Eleanor, she would not have it any other way. Her husband, Will, is in his third and final year of law school at SMU, and recently accepted a job at Locke Lord. So for any Murchison Facebook fans out there, the invitation to babysit is always open! Life is good for Meredith McAlister, who is living in Salem, Massachusetts, that city full of witches we all read about in sixth grade. She works in Boston at a boutique
investment firm, Copper Rock Capital, taking care of all human resources, accounting, and project management for the company. When she is not at work, she can be found acting and directing at the Salem Theatre Company or playing with Ché, a Chihuahua, or her bratty tabby named Stuart. Also, for those of you getting ready to walk down the aisle, she is an ordained minister. Perhaps for a slight fee Ché could be a ring bearer; I am assuming with a guardian like Meredith, he would not suffer from stage fright. Natalie Pon is in residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and would love to see Daisies that visit Houston. Libby Longino just moved back to this side of the pond to finish her Ph.D. in social history at Oxford. While her experience was in many ways Hogwarts-like (including studying in ornate libraries with old portraits staring down at her), she is glad to be stateside which boasts better weather. She will be living in the great city of Baltimore for the next year, before she begins yet another degree at Yale Law School. More appreciative of the cold, rainy climate of London, Elizabeth Bruyere has been loving it since July 2012. She is working for the same management consulting firm since graduation, and made the move from Boston to London last year to help
Into the Meadow fundraiser event included Amy Williams Monier ’73, Flo Monier ’06, Ann Montgomery ’05, Anna Rosenblatt ’06, Anna Nearburg ’06, Laura Urso ’07, Audrey Dechard ’05, Alex Baker ’05, Molly Rosenblatt ’08, Caroline Smith ’08, Olivia Trevino ’07, Alison Richie ’05, and Kristen Cane ’05
grow the firm’s pharmaceuticals practice in Europe. Dr. Fishel would be so proud! One of the best parts of London is its proximity to the rest of Europe, so she has been trying to travel as much as her wallet allows. Even though she was across the pond for the 4th of July, she happened to run into a bunch of Hockadaisies in the Classes of ’05 – ’08: Elizabeth Good ’05, Lauren Solomon ’07, and Channy Ronchetti ’08. Ashleigh Phillips is working in film in Los Angeles, while finishing her master’s in film production. She married Britton Foster in December. They met while he was visiting the set of the first film she wrote; he was shooting the movie. Their wedding was at a big block party in South Central. She is currently producing two indie features, the first of which, Sequoia, will hopefully be premiering at Sundance this year. Elizabeth Marley is currently finishing her M.S. in biological and agricultural engineering at Texas A&M University with an emphasis on soil science, and working as a teaching assistant. She spent the summer traveling to Scotland and Auburn, Alabama, which was lovely barring the time she dislocated her shoulder in Chewacla State Park. She also participated in an agricultural robotics competition at the 2013 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, and missed third place by only a few points. She’s also using her American Sign Language skills as a worship leader at Bryan-College Station Deaf Church, interpreting at the largest campuswide college Bible study in the nation, and tutoring a special needs student who wants to learn ASL. She is eager to work with any Daisy via Skype if they want to learn, or to host anyone interested seeing a football game in College Station. Jennifer Zavaleta is thrilled that there were so many class notes this season, and even more excited that I get to put them together as I wait for a ride next to my research site in the Valdivian watershed here in Chile. It is still winter down here, which means that it is both wet and
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