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Liberal Arts Honors Program, and Tom (15) is finishing his freshman year of high school at Saint Mary’s Hall. She and her husband, Luke, love San Antonio and are celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary this summer. Kristin Brown Flynn is looking forward to summer getting here so she can be on the lake every day. Her kids are quickly growing up — way too fast. Her daughter Erin is a sophomore and son Jake is a junior already looking at colleges. He wants to be a civil engineer and is looking at Georgia Tech. Erin is still jumping horses and has been training a green horse for the last year. I have been busy playing “where in the world is Kathy Gersch,” traveling for work to Asia, Europe, Latin America, and across the U.S. You can follow my adventures on Facebook. The rest of the time I am playing crazy mom with Victoria (15), Colin (13), Annabelle (10), and Cooper (9). And for fun I rescued and fostered an entire litter of puppies that were going to be put to sleep this year. As if I did not have enough chaos in my house! I guess “Sleepless in Seattle” is fitting ... ••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
1988 Class Agent – Communications: Nicki Allen phrancallen@aol.com Hello fellow Killer Daisies! Lots to report ... Elizabeth Stuart took on the new adventure of co-chairing the National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball of Washington. We know it went flawlessly! Jennifer Bryan is working at Manhattan High School (Manhattan, Kansas, that is) starting August 21 as a paraeducator. “Violinifer” says she feels like she’s back in high school again! Yikes! She is also continuing her musical endeavors, playing some jazz violin. For those who were following Adrian Harris Forman on her blog, www. storybookdays.blogspot.com, you know that she spent a fantastic summer in Japan with her husband and boys traveling, eating unbelievable food, and watching lots
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of Japanese Little League. Congratulations are in order for Adrian for publishing her first piece in the New York Times, My Phone Number’s Other Woman http://www. nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/ sunday/my-phone-numbers-otherwoman.html. Meg Allen Temple’s daughter, Mia Temple (kindergarten), started pre-kindergarten at Hockaday last fall and scored her first goal playing soccer with Mandy Ginsberg’s daughter, Maya Ginsberg (kindergarten). Meg is bravely coaching their team, appropriately named the Crazy Daisies! Kimberly Haley-Coleman writes that her daughters, Maggie and Haley, named their Labrador puppy Daisy, and she spent an eventful month of stares after vegetable-based fur dye (in honor of breast cancer awareness) just wouldn’t wash off. Maggie is currently a Daisy scout who will find a way to work “daisy” into any conversation ... vive les Daisies! I received an update from Rachael Leventhal-Garnett whose oldest son, Micah (13), is in seventh grade at Fort Worth Country Day and is having a fabulous year. He won the first place award within the Tarrant County private school’s cross country runners this fall and was just placed on the A-team as the center forward in soccer. She is homeschooling her younger son Gabriel (11) this year in order to allow extra time to focus on his sport, competitive fencing. Up until the summer of 2011, she had been teaching art to pre-kindergarten and fourth through
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Meg Allen Temple ’88 and her daughter Mia Temple (kindergarten)
eighth grade students at a small Catholic school in Fort Worth. Recently, though, she ventured to become her own boss and last spring started an estate sales business, Garnett Estate Sales and Dry Goods (Dry Goods referring to her growing online business and hopefully, a storefront one day). She states it is great fun and a tremendous amount of hard work. Julie McArthur and Shana Intille Wilcox both started volunteer teaching English as a Second Language to adults at the West Dallas campus of VMLC (Vickery Meadow Learning Center) this spring. Nice work, ladies. In other more recent news, our reunion was a huge success! I believe there were more than 44 Daisies in attendance. Meg Temple threw a fabulous cocktail party at her home in Dallas, and we met up later with the St. Mark’s Class of 1988 to reminisce. Meg is heading up the Hockaday Annual Fund for our class and urges everyone to give, shooting for 100% participation. Way to go, Meg ... let’s support her! Even if it is a gift of $5, it will help us beat the St. Mark’s boys and we always want to beat them! Personally, I (Nicki Allen) had a wonderful time seeing everyone again although it was a bit surreal being on campus again and feeling a bit lost with all of the new buildings that have been added. For those of you who have never attended a reunion, I highly recommend you do. It is a serious blast from the past but in a