Irene Firippis, Ericka Rojas, Krista Montes de Oca, Kelley Stillwell Champagne, Sarah Aldemeyer, Katie Wilcox, Maureen Easby Smith, Noreen Ahmed. Tommy and Maggie Roisin Breeze, children of Eileen Dwyer Breeze ’95
the proprietor of the Bonefish Grill Restaurant. They have two daughters: Jenny, age 22, who just graduated from James Madison University; and Maria, age 19, who is in her second year at the University of Virginia. Kate has worked in elementary schools for many years and currently enjoys being a school library assistant.
1984 Amy Baldwin Doherty lives in Falls
Church, Virgina with her husband, Steven, and their three sons, Shane, age 12, Steven, age 9 and Ryan, age 4.
1987 Sandy Khayat Dahl lives in Munich,
Germany. Her children are Max, age 12, Roman, age 10, Julio, age 6 and Tori Blaise, who is 20 months. Sandy reports that her sons are bilingual and attending German-speaking schools. Catherine Gouge was awarded tenure, promotion to Associate Professor of English and a sabbatical by West Virginia University. This year, she also won awards for outstanding teaching at both the college and university levels. She is looking forward to traveling to South Africa in the fall while on sabbatical.
Okinawa, where she is the Department Head for Pediatrics. Andrea, her husband and their three sons, Matthew, Liam and Colin, are all enjoying their new adventure in Japan.
1991 Gabriele Brunhart Tsung is working with
the UCLA Neuro-Oncology department as a nurse practitioner with their clinical trials program, blazing new trails as a telecommuter. She is also still serving her country in the Naval Reserves as a Nurse Corps Officer and is moving to San Antonio, Texas with her husband.
1988 1985 1992 After eight years in San Francisco, California, Kim Molly Mee is living in Annapolis Maryland with Anne Hillery Harper is living in
her husband and six-year-old son, Noah. She is a professor in the College of Education at Towson University.
1986 Lena Al-Harthi is an Associate Professor
of Immunology/Microbiology at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. Her research is focused on understanding HIV pathogenesis. Lena has been married for 16 years to Ted Stern and they have two little boys: Ryan, age 6 and Dean, age 4. Lena frequently visits the Washington, DC area and would love to get together with classmates. Her email is lalharth@ rush.edu. Amy Beal is teaching at the Harry Potter summer camp in Alexandria, Virginia and loving it.
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Kelly Keft and her husband have relocated back to Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Kim has a three-year-old son named Sam and a daughter, Shannon Marie, who was born on March 3, 2009. Meaghan FitzGerald Stanley and husband, Andrew, welcomed Tyler Joseph on June 2, 2009. Meaghan and Andrew also have a daughter named Drew and a son named Fitz.
1989
The Class of 1989 20th Reunion will be a ladies event on Saturday night, October 10 and a family event on Sunday, October 11 at Holy Child. Please email Nathalie Young Okhowat at nyhokhowat@aol.com or Joelle Slye Flynn at joellesflynn@gmail.com for additional information. Andrea Brunhart Donalty was promoted to Commander in the US Navy and was recently transferred to Naval Hospital
Nicholasville, Kentucky with her husband, Carl, and their two daughters, Erin (3) and Alexa (13 months).
1993 Congratulations to Alejandra Matus-
Aguirre, who married Carlos Arreseigor on September 5. Dillon Barnes Cox has started her own fundraising consulting business. Please contact her with any of your fundraising needs at dilloncox@aol.com.
1994
Jessica Colburn will begin a two-year geriatrics fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, beginning July 2009. Ginger King Shaw is an Executive Officer for the
Kristelle Harris Kambanis and George Kambanis
Erin and Alexa Harper, daughters of Anne Hillary Harper ’92
Army’s Center of Military History. Ginger oversees all historical operations for the Army as well as its 150 museums. Ginger is living in Rockville, Maryland with her husband and fiveyear-old daughter, Abigail. Joanna SmithRamani was elected to the Steering Committee for a national non-profit called the National Community Tax Coalition. She will focus on tax and financial service policy issues facing low-income workers. Giovanna Vidoli will begin a Fellowship at the Forensic Science Academy at the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command- Central Identification Laboratory. She will be trained in archaeological recovery and forensic anthropological techniques to assist in the excavation and identification of MIAs from previous wars. The training, based in Hawaii, will include five weeks in Southeast Asia and goes from August through December.
1995 Eileen Dwyer Breeze and Peter Breeze are
thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Margaret (Maggie) Roisin Breeze, on July 7, 2009. Tommy, now 3 1/2, is one proud big brother. Jodie Hollins Hillman is currently enrolled at The Center for Guided Montessori Studies to obtain a Montessori teaching certification in early childhood and elementary education. Jodie and her husband, Chris, have three kids: Addison, age 13, McKenna, age 6 and Kenadie, age 3, and they live in Mount Airy, Maryland. Nerissa Balland Montemurro owns an Event Planning & Design Company based in New York City and Washington DC. Nerissa’s company is always hiring for Public Relations and Marketing Interns. Check out the company’s Web site at www.privatereceptions.
com. Monica Talcott graduated Summa Cum Laude from UMBC with a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work). Monica will be starting in the advanced standing Masters of Social Work Program at the University of Maryland in Baltimore this fall and an internship in the Neurosurgery department at the University of Maryland Medical System.
1996 Alexis Kaczensky Fabbri lives in
Washington DC with her husband, Massimo, and her maltipoo, LuLu. Alexis is a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, specializing in social media and technical writing. She also occasionally writes features for Maryland Life magazine. Massimo has opened his second restaurant, Posto, in Logan Circle.
1997 Michelle Burchett was accepted to Virginia
Tech’s Public Administration and Public Policy Program and will start in the fall. She currently works for a non-profit called SPARC (Specially Adapted Resource Club) facilitating programs that serve individuals with lifelong disabilities. Marisa Van Saanen is entering her third year of law school at Yale. She’s splitting this summer between the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and working for a judge in New York City. Marisa Young is engaged! She’s getting married in May 2010. Jean Zachariasiewicz will be starting her third and final year of law school at Columbia in the fall. This summer, she is working at Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, a civil rights firm in New York City, and she plans to apply to clerk for a judge following graduation.
Irene Firippis, Lauren Bevis, Ashley Donaldson and Caitlin McCarthy at a Redskins game last year
1998 Kate Connor is currently completing her
residency training in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Medical Center and will be staying on as chief pediatric resident for the coming year. She and her husband, Joe, live in Chicago. Mimi Diez is currently working for the Inter-American Development Bank as a Corporate Sustainability Coordinator. This August, Mimi and her husband celebrated their six-year wedding anniversary with their two kids, Alicia, age 4 and Carlos, age 14 months. Lesley Grabias was appointed Special Events Coordinator for the US Capitol Visitor Center last April. Since the CVC’s recent opening, Lesley has planned several successful events for Congress, the new Administration and the Washington, DC community. In her spare time, she also plans weddings and other social functions around the DC area. Krista Kaczensky Sermon is an attorney and lives in Edgewater, Maryland with husband Matt and two pugs. The Sermons just remodeled their kitchen, which provides Krista a venue to express her passion for cooking. Emily Dolan Livelli is an Associate Director of Admissions at Barnard College in New York City, where she recruits students from Northern California, Hawaii and the Washington, DC Metro area. She married Kevin Livelli in December 2008 and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Megan O’Leary has spent the past two years in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, working as First Mate on a day charter boat to the British Virgin Islands. She is hard at work on her first and second novels, with hopes of publishing in the future. She is spending the summer in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, before 25