ALUMNI NEWS
and is officially ‘the other kind of doctor’.” Bart received his PhD in Physics and is now off to do his post-doc work starting next fall at Columbia. Bart and his wife live in NYC. Kathie and Selby Schwend have a new MBA in their family. Selby shares their gradation news and more, “Daughter Jessica (32) got her MBA from Penn State in May and still works for Armstrong World Industries in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where she was recently promoted. She is still single but has a new beau. Kathie and I are still in retirement with a very occasional real estate deal happening to break the monotony. The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia remain beautiful in every season, and we've now watched 18 years of them come and go since moving from Houston. As for our other children, our oldest Evan is approaching 40 and has recently left the Marine Corps to return to Virginia Tech to finish out his senior year before embarking on a new career in teaching. He and his wife Bronwyn and their two children Anthony (11) and Elizabeth (eight) continue to live near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, his most recent duty station. Bronwyn is a special-ed teacher on the base. Son Caleb (34) and wife Amy with daughter Kinsley, who just turned two, and stepson Kannan (13) continue to live in Watertown, Tennessee and have just formed a new electrical retro-fitting company which specializes in large commercial energy savings projects. They are doing exceptionally well in this new endeavor. Son Tyler (29) married his sweetheart Amanda on May 19, and they are living in Lynchburg, Virginia and are both gainfully employed at J. Crew where he is the Windows IT Administrator. They were married on a high promontory overlooking the James River just off the Blue Ridge Parkway on a beautiful Saturday morning among very close family and a few friends. Son Austen (26) is single and graduated last year from West Virginia Tech with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He is working for a Swedish company, Atlas Copco, as a test engineer. They specialize in the manufacture of drilling related tools, equipment and vehicles. Kathie and I do make special efforts to assemble all the
family at least twice per year.” Katherine Thompson Jordan had two sets of graduation news and more on her family. She writes, “Our older daughter Katie is a doctor and will be finishing her psychiatry fellowship in June. She has found a job, got married and is expecting a baby! Our youngest daughter Mary Caroline is graduating from Canyon Lake High School and will be going in the fall to Texas Lutheran University where she won two scholarships – one for her grades and one for dramatic media. She will be mascoting there as "Lucky the Bulldog”. She was mascot the last two years of high school as "Hank the Hawk” and really had fun. She says it’s also lots of work, but she thoroughly enjoys it. So much that she will be teaching how to mascot this summer with the National Cheerleading Association at Sam Houston State, University of Houston, Incarnate Word and at a cheer camp in South Padre Island. She also played varsity softball all four years starting for two years and serving as captain this year. Our son Chris is tired of designing drilling equipment and is now applying to law schools. My husband is retiring from teaching. He retired first with the Air Force, now with teaching. I told him he had to find a third career because we still have one going to college!” Robin Singer Mowrer also shared her graduation news and family update from Dallas: “Our youngest son Kyle has graduated from high school with honors and will be attending Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, CA. He is a brilliant musician, loves jazz and is also very bright. He must have gotten the smarts from my husband and the love of music from me. I am so proud of him and am confident that he will be successful in whatever he decides to do. We have been raising our children at home for the past 32 years, so this [empty-nesting] will be quite a change. I have very mixed feelings of happiness that my kids are grown and doing great and wanting to be close to them. Our wonderful daughter Briana is teaching ESL at the University of San Diego and loves it there. Our son Eddie recently married, and he and his lovely wife are loving life in Denver. My husband Dale is
enjoying the real estate investment business, and I will continue with my residential real estate business. We are looking forward to our annual family trip this summer with my parents who still live in Houston (Memorial) and lots of brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. We will also be cruising the Hawaiian Islands, and I can't wait! Warmest regards to everyone and Aloha!” Our last cap and gown report comes from Janet Lee Cohen. Janet shares, “Our youngest daughter is getting her Master's in Education from Harvard this coming week, and she'll be working at a KIPP charter school outside of Boston next year. She knows how lucky she is to have gotten ANY teaching job. Our oldest has gone back to school for a doctorate in Corporate Leadership (don't ask me what this is) given jointly by Wharton and
University of Pennsylvania's School of Education. She's the mother of almost two-year-old twins, and don't ask me how she does it. I just received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Keene State College, our local branch of the University of New Hampshire. It was a gas, but I sweated writing the commencement speech for weeks! It took me 20 drafts, but I finally arrived at something I wasn't embarrassed to deliver. This kind of thing is a whole lot easier in a small town, but I was tickled all the same. Happy 60th, everyone!” I thought Cary Gates might have a graduate this year. Cary continues to teach art at San Antonio Academy in the Alamo City and continues to work on his own art when time allows. His daughter Clare has just completed her first year in law school.
Alumni Trips with Caro Ann and John Germann Travel has always been an important part of the Kinkaid education through summer trips and Interim Term. In response to many parents and alumni who have expressed interest in going on such trips, The Kinkaid School and Alumni Association are pleased to begin offering a regular series of travel opportunities with faculty hosts. Brochures will be mailed later this month for the first two trips scheduled for 2013. We would like to invite you to join retired faculty Caro Ann and John Germann to to follow in Robert E. Lee’s footsteps or explore the landmarks of the Mediterranean Civilizations. FROSCH Travel, a firm that has coordinated many student trips for Kinkaid over the years, and Travel Dynamics have worked closed with the Germanns to plan these educational trips exclusively for Kinkaidians. If you ever took an American History course from Mr. Germann or have an interest in classical history, these trips are for you! For more information and to view the travel brochures, please go to www.kinkaid.org/alumni or email leslie.labanowski@ kinkaid.org.
In Robert E. Lee's Footsteps April 6 - 13, 2013 From the Walls of Troy to the Canals of Venice September 13 - 24, 2013
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