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practice for the past year doing anesthesia. He is really enjoying work! He and his wife Liz are expecting a little girl at the end of May. Their son Max, who turns three in July, can’t wait to be a big brother. Blair Richardson Loocke is enjoying spending time with Mary Allen, who will be one in August. Blair continues to enjoy working at Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP. Life is great for Courtney Wilson McGregor, but she misses everyone in Texas! Courtney and her sister, Christina, are enjoying having their babies only one month a part in age. Tricia Murray is still working part time at the interior design firm, Jennifer Eisenstadt Design and Decoration. Tricia and her family are still living in Manhattan and loving it. Their daughter Caroline turned three at the beginning of May and their son Bobby just turned six months. Catherine Reuhl just moved to San Francisco in October, and is getting married in September 2012 to someone she met over four years ago in Charlotte, NC. She is working remotely for the same company she worked for when she lived on the East Coast. Ashley Segal and Kristin have moved to Los Angeles. She is running both her companies (Linda Segal and Cure-Couture) out of her corporate offices in LA. They have settled into their new house in West Hollywood and have been spending lots of time decorating and enjoying the gorgeous weather. Kristin is six months cancer free (woohoo!) and has started working with “Save the
Ta-Ta’s” to promote awareness for their breast cancer foundation. And, as for us, Alexandra Lacy moved to New York City and loves her time there and has no plans on moving back to Texas in the near future. She is trying to soak up everything that NYC has to offer. Liz Evans Mann is excited about traveling with her family over the summer! Her daughter Mary Evans just celebrated her second birthday. She is enjoying working part time as a Speech and Language Pathologist and is opening up an Assistive Technology Clinic for Easter Seal this summer. We hope that everyone has a safe and relaxing summer and we will look forward to hearing for you in the Fall!
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Spencer English Dallas, Texas spencer.english@gmail.com Alyssa Gardner Kilpatrick Houston, Texas alyssakilpatrick@hotmail.com Michel Miller Houston, Texas michelmiller82@gmail.com As usual, it was a busy and exciting year for the Class of 2000 girls. To quote one of our classmates, “We all turned 30 this year – a collective ‘whoa’!” I thought that was such a funny and accurate statement…at least for how I’m feeling about entering into this new decade of our lives! However, it sounds like everyone is dealing with the transition quite nicely…. Stefy Palandjoglou Allen is still
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loving New York and was promoted in December to Senior Accessories Editor at Elle magazine. She is looking forward to a summer of travel, especially her trip to Beirut in June for a friend’s wedding. Stephanie Bailey is still touring with her band, The Black Angels, and living in Austin during her time off. She just got back from the West Coast and playing Coachella. Next the band will play at Lollapalooza, and then it’s off to Australia for a few weeks. Between those dates, Stephanie will be traveling between Los Angeles, Dallas, and Austin for studio work on the band’s next album. Wow, Stephanie…your life is way cooler than mine. Brittany Hansen Cassin and her husband Travis welcomed a baby boy, Charlie, in December. Brittany says she is enjoying motherhood very much and keeping busy with residential real estate at John Daugherty Realtors. Meredith Collins married Perry Gagliardi ’02 in April. She is about to start her fifth year of plastic surgery residency (year five of six.) Meri and Perry (aaw, that rhymes!) are living in New York and recently bought a puppy, Riley, who is “the cutest maltipoo ever.” On January 1, Lizzie Buza Devlin and her husband Ryan welcomed a new baby boy, Ryan Patrick Devlin, Jr., who Lizzie says is Ryan’s “mini me.” Lizzie graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in December and is now a certified PA. She will begin practicing in June at a private family practice in Houston. Lizzie and Ryan are looking forward to their first family beach vacation over the summer to Watercolor, Florida. Shaun-Elizabeth Hopson Dickerson is still working for Cypress Real Estate Advisors in Austin where she is Vice President of Capital Market and spends much of her time traveling to meet with investors. On the weekends, Shaun and her husband Wes try to spend as much time as they can on Lake Austin. They took a trip to Paris in March to celebrate Shaun’s 30th birthday where they were able to have dinner with Lucas Somoza (what year is Lucas???) and his husband Thierry. Shaun and Wes are also looking forward to summer trips in Aspen and California. Bevin Bering Dubrowski and her husband Dan are excited to report they are expecting a little one this November! Bevin is still working away and having a great time helping grow Houston Center for Photography. She and Dan are
looking forward to enjoying a few pre-baby trips this summer. Elizabeth Williams Dwyer has been very busy working as an attorney with Bailey Perrin Bailey PLLC, and will be doing a lot of traveling this summer and next year. Last summer, Rica Gardner moved from International Relations in the Office of the President to Interdisciplinary Initiatives in the Office of the Provost, at Rice University. In May, Rica left Houston and moved to New Orleans where she will start Loyola Law School in the Fall. She also ran the Dallas 1/2 Marathon, the Chicago 1/2 Marathon, the Houston 1/2 Marathon and the Tokyo Full Marathon. Geez, Rica. I’m tired just hearing about that! Jennifer Pierce Griffith is still living in Dallas. She graduated from ER residency at Parkland Hospital this past June, and has been working part time as an attending in academics at the Parkland ED and part time at Presby and Methodist in the community ED. Jen’s husband Adam is going into his fifth year in Neurosurgery residency at Parkland. They just got a new French bulldog puppy, Mickie, who they are “spoiling, of course!” Jen says she plans to stay in Dallas for the time being - at least until her husband finishes residency in three years. Barrie Gordon Gruner just moved to Los Angeles where she continues to work at Turner Broadcasting. Barrie says she has “been able to use my Texas roots to sound incredibly smart and in-the-know on one of my projects: TNT’s re-boot of Dallas.” She and her husband Jared are excited to welcome their first child in October 2012! Erin Stuewer Hinze is enjoying private practice as a pediatric dentist, and is teaching at Baylor College of Dentistry on her days off. She lives in the north Dallas area with her husband and their two dogs, Pumpkin and Rascal. Rascal is their new pug puppy who Erin says, “lives up to his name!” Katherine Beall Kingsbury is still living in Durham, NC and working as a social worker in the Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic at UNC Hospital. Lauren Leavitt is starting her third year of Emergency Medicine residency with UT Houston at Memorial Hermann in The Medical Center. She will be traveling to Fiji