Kelsey Baron, Katharine Still, Lauren Omelchenko, Meghan Horn, Kelsey Link, Colleen Ring and Madeleine Cantrel
returning to the Caribbean in the fall. Emily Sama Martin is a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., where she evaluates federal education, nutrition and other social public policy programs. In the evenings, she teaches statistics and econometrics at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Kate Smits recently graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar. She is currently an associate at the Boleman Law Firm in Richmond, where she practices bankruptcy law.
1999
Congratulations to Johanna Bayly Howe, who married Barclay Howe on February 21, 2009. Theresa Gartland has been the Program and Curriculum Director of Urban Compass since July of 2008. Urban Compass is a nonprofit in Watts, housed on Verbum Dei’s campus, that works with elementary school children from Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects to keep them engaged in school and out of gangs. Urban Compass’ mission is to provide a safe, welcoming and innovative environment that challenges our youth to envision and navigate a course for a rewarding future characterized by achievement, independent thought and social responsibility through education, mentoring and play. To get in touch with other classmates or to find out more information on your ten-year reunion, contact Jenn Rice Jaiswal on facebook and join the HC Class of ’99 group.
2000 Sarah Balboa lives in Katy, TX and enjoys competing in triathlons. Kristelle Harris Kambanis married George Kambanis on December 27, 2008 in Washington, DC and had 26
Carla Nally ’04 & Romina Nally ’08
Daniela Capbert, Kerry Flanagan and Andrea Narrow as bridesmaids. After four years of working in non-profit development, Catherine Mayer joined Mariska Hargitay, the star of Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, as her first assistant. Sarah Mir and her husband have a baby son named Sheraz. Sarah and her husband run the Potomac Seniors Village Assisted Living Center in Potomac, Maryland.
2001 Congratulations to Annie Genevish, who
married Brad Matanin on September 19, 2009 at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club in Kent Island, Maryland. Annie is currently working at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Corporate Relations.
2002 Jillian Bastow is in graduate school for an
MA in Secondary Education in Social Studies at Loyola University Maryland. Jillian also works part time as a teacher at Chevy Chase Elementary. Heather Knighton Brush and her husband, Billy, have a one-year-old daughter named Baylee Marie Brush. Colleen Corgan works in Georgetown for a mapbased real estate search company called HotPads. This year, HotPads received 10,000 entries from over 60 countries. HotPads received the People’s Voice Award, which was determined by votes from the online community. Arjumand Hamid and her husband, Hassan Saleem, live in Alexandria, Virginia. Arjumand is currently working at a law firm in Washington, DC, while pursuing a Master’s at Johns Hopkins University in Museum Studies. Margaret Harker is a rising second-year student at University of Richmond School of
Members of the Class of ’03: Katie Shaeffer, Meredith Kruse, Mandy Cavanaugh Mobley, Caitlin Duignan, Lauren Kopit at Mandy’s wedding
Law. She is working for two judges this summer —one on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and one on the Virginia Court of Appeals. She is also a research assistant on a variety of tax policy issues for an attorney and professor in Richmond. She is President of the University of Richmond chapter of the Federalist Society.
2003 Caitlin James recently returned from several
months in Ireland to begin a two-year international MBA program at the University of South Carolina. She is focusing on international business in France, and French language. In January, she leaves to spend a year in France through her business program and will graduate with her MBA in May 2011. Lauren Kopit is enjoying her new job in Campus Recruiting for PricewaterhouseCoopers and is quite busy with her wedding planning! Congratulations to Amanda Cavanagh Mobley, who married Brooks Mobley on July 25 at Port Gamble Washington. Shari Reid will be entering her second year at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C. This summer, Shari is doing research at Johns Hopkins University through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Medical Student Research Program, in conjunction with Vanderbilt University. She will be presenting her abstract and poster at the national conference in August at Vanderbilt University. Her area of research is the effects of the hormone leptin in obesity. Lauren Sims is an account executive at New Republic magazine. She has been with the magazine, located in Washington, DC, for two years. Ryann Stefanou graduated from University of Maryland Magna Cum Laude.
Katy Mills ’98 and Peter Dempsey
Krista Montes de Oca ’05 and Suzi Norris Montes de Oca ’74 participated in the Race for the Cure last spring.
2004 Christine Colburn graduated from
Emerson College last year and worked in Children’s Programming at WGBH, Boston’s public television station, last summer before heading to London on a six-month work visa. She returned to Boston in March and has been working on feature films there. Christine has been a production assistant on The Company Men, Grown Ups and now The Town, directed by Ben Affleck. Liz Palka is a reporter at CBS19 in Charlottesville, Virginia. She covers everything from Virginia politics to community meetings and breaking news. She is also what they call a “oneman-band.” She shoots, writes, edits and reports all of her stories by herself. She plans on staying in Charlottesville for another year.”
2005 Ashley Bevis is doing Teach for America
and will be teaching elementary school in the Mississippi Delta! Liza Calcagno and her husband, Camilo, recently bought a house in Bethesda and had a baby, Danilo. Congratulations Liz! Kristin DeGiorgi is staying at John Carroll and has already started graduate school to get her MBA. Irene Firippis graduated with distinction from The Pennsylvania State University, at University Park, with a degree in Economics. She also completed coursework to receive a certificate in International, Developmental and Transition Economics. This summer, she will begin working full time for the United States Department of Justice as an Economic Analyst. Abby Gordon has one year left at Loyola New Orleans, where she is double majoring in Management and Marketing and expects to graduate in May 2010. Mary Murphy graduated with a BA in Economics,
Mandy Cavanaugh ’03 and her husband, Brooks Mobley
Minor in Hispanic Studies and is attending Syracuse Law School in the fall. On September 9, 2009, Lindsey Kane will be traveling to Peru to do medical work with the Peace Corps. Lindsay will be gone for 27 months. Molly O’Connell will be going to Phoenix, Arizona in August for AmeriCorps.
2006 During the summer of 2008, Mary Buckley
traveled to Tanzania with nine classmates from Dickinson College and participated in a study administrated by Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Ellison and Associate Professor of Anthology Karen Weinstein. Mary and the other students studied “interactions between cultural traditions and practices, regional environments, changing political landscapes and international economic transformations” and observed a great deal of poverty. This summer, Mary has been chosen to be an intern at Dickinson College to help with research in the Biology Department. Mary is also a member of the Liberty Cap Society. The Liberty Caps are those who have been selected to be tour guides at Dickinson. Johanna Hancock is going into her senior year at Catholic University of America as a nursing major.
2007 Abby Handerhan was elected Captain of
the Susquehanna University Lacrosse team for the 2009-2010 Season. Abby will be doing her fall semester abroad in Australia and studying prevet. Meredith Hickman has been a Disney College Program participant since early January 2009, as one of their many character performers. Her parents, Nancy and John Hickman, visited
her last spring. Abby Holtz has been in Italy this past semester studying at the Catholic University of Milan. Christine Matthews was accepted into the upper division nursing school at the University of South Carolina. Julie Mayer is participating in Georgetown University’s Semester in Washington program in Religion and Politics this summer. As part of the program, she has an internship at the Campaign for Youth Justice, where she is focused on issues related to youth incarceration. Julie is majoring in Public Policy Studies, with a minor in Political Science and a concentration in Law at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she was on the Dean’s List sophomore year. In the fall, Julie will be a Freshman Orientation Mentor and Rape Counselor at HWS.
2008 Kelly Decker was accepted into the
University of Kentucky’s nursing school, earning one of only 160 spots. She has recently been certified as a nursing assistant through Classic Nurses Academy and is working on her clinical training at Washington House Nursing Home. Paige Hollenbeck has spent her summer volunteering at the VCA North Rockville animal hospital, shadowing the head veterinarian and getting hands-on experience in checkups, lab tests and even surgeries. Kiley Lyons spent six weeks working as an Orientation Leader for incoming freshmen at her university, Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. Colleen Warner had a busy summer interning on Capitol Hill and at an IT firm in Rockville, with her sister Kelly Warner ‘04. Several members of the Class of 2008 gathered together at the Rascal Flatts concert on the evening of Saturday, June 27 at Nissan Pavilion in Virginia. 27