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Tradition of Cultural Exchange

A Dramatic French Twist • A Pivotal Experience

A Message from Dr. Trusty

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pring is a reminder of new beginnings. A time to regroup after our New Year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside (smile). The periodic chilly temperatures of winter have passed, and now the warmth and humidity have returned from their few month hiatus (smile). Our wonderful students have continued to embrace our four core values and be celebrated for their efforts and achievements. Our employees continue to serve as leaders and role models, often going above and beyond to meet student needs.

With Kinkaid being such the busy place that it is, we often forget about all that has been accomplished thus far, nearly two-thirds of the way into the school year. Here are a few examples.

The West Campus entry and the new Bowden Field are receiving significant use and easing traffic and field congestion.

The Dance Show, Fall Play (These Shining Lives), the first-ever Kinkaid Actor Driven Event (Agnes of God), the Margaret Kinkaid Holiday Concert, and the Children’s Theatre Production of the The True Story of the Three Little Pigs were all exceptional! Our artists continued to be celebrated for their artistic talents in visual and performing arts.

A few highlighted speakers — Dr. Billy Cohn (Papadopoulos Speaker), inspired upper school students on the art of invention and tinkering. Julie Lythcott-Haims, author and speaker, mesmerized students and adults with her message about the role of parenting in preparing students for the world beyond our doors. Martin Lowe (Carothers/Edward Visiting Artist), Grammy and Tony Award winning composer and arranger, conducted a Master Class for students. Dr. Steven Jones shared with the community the core competencies necessary to prepare students for a globally diverse world.

Interim Term was once again a huge success, with upper school students taking a wide breadth of classes and also traveling to China, Belize, France or Spain. Our seniors experienced three weeks of practical experience in a field of their choice, eager to return for their final semester of high school which began on Monday, January 18th.

The Middle School production of The Odyssey, and the musical, Shrek Jr., played to rave reviews.

Lower Schoolers traveled to Egypt and Iceland for International Fair.

Our fall and winter teams at both the middle and high school levels competed and represented Kinkaid well, embracing our core values and the tenets of sportsmanship. At the time of this writing, we have won championships in varsity football, varsity cross country and middle school field hockey.

Taft Foley ’21 won the state tournament at the 113lb weight class and qualified for Prep Nationals.

Our student-athletes who will compete at the college level were celebrated during two signing ceremonies, with one more ceremony in the spring.

The 2019 Auction was one of the most successful to date.

In early Winter, the School experienced the loss of one current and one former employee - Mrs. Rosa Hernandez, who was a member of our Facilities Support Staff, and Mr. Ike Crews, who was the 20172018 Cooney Fellow. The community valued the many contributions of these two members and are the better as a result.

Thank you for the many ways that you have supported Kinkaid (and me) thus far this school year. We have some of our most cherished school traditions yet to experience, and I look forward to seeing you around campus.

Sincerely,

Ed

Ed celebrating a successful Book Fair this Fall with Gurple

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Contents

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Features 2 A Dramatic French Twist 6 A Tradition of Cultural Exchange 18 A Pivotal Experience

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Departments 2

Around Campus

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Staff Spotlight — Keith Guehring KIPP SHINE Partnership Honors Faris Virani News From The Board of Trustees 21st Annual Zack Semander Memorial Golf Tournament Falcon Family Feast Book Fair Third Grade Grandparents’ Day Two Kinkadians Honored at Houston’s NPD Luncheon

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CHAMPIONS!

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Athletics

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Fine Arts

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Class Notes & Alumni News

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Alumna Profile – Jane Hoffert Moore ‘46 Class Notes Alumna Profile – Becca North ‘94 Alumni Leadership Day Milestones

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THE KINKAID MAGAZINE IS A PUBLICATION OF THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE OF THE KINKAID SCHOOL Tom Moore Director of Advancement tom.moore@kinkaid.org

Andrea Ibarra Gift Records Manager andrea.ibarra@kinkaid.org

Kate DeWitt Advancement Assistant kate.dewitt@kinkaid.org

Gina Lamme Advancement Assistant gina.lamme@kinkaid.org

Blair Burke Foster ’06 Manager of Kinkaid Fund blair.foster@kinkaid.org

Alexa Leach ’09 Manager of Alumni Activities alexa.leach@kinkaid.org

Elizabeth Litton Hogan ’91 Special Events Coordinator elizabeth.hogan@kinkaid.org

Rita Morico Parent Liaison & Volunteer Coordinator rita.morico@kinkaid.org

Georgia Piazza Manager of Communications & Marketing georgia.piazza@kinkaid.org Cindy van Keppel Advancement Assistant cindy.vankeppel@kinkaid.org Lisa Wood Assistant Director of Advancement lisa.wood@kinkaid.org Cameron Whitaker Assistant Communications Manager cameron.whitaker@kinkaid.org

Photography contributed by: David Shutts ’74 David Shutts Photography, Inc. Design contributed by: Michael Clarke Design

THE KINKAID SCHOOL

Coup de théâtre!

Theatre teacher reignites love for French language Contributed by Upper School Journalism and Yearbook Teacher Dr. Kimetris Baltrip

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scatter of scrambled eggs landed on stage in one of Michelle Ludwig’s most intense moments during her high school’s performance of “The Miracle Worker.”Ludwig hurled her breakfast in the so-called “table manners” scene, which was punctuated by her character, an agitated Helen Keller.

“She’s a very expressive character, so being able to throw a tantrum on stage was fun,” said Ludwig, who teaches theatre in the Upper School and French in the Middle School.

Playing lead as Helen Keller tops Ludwig’s list of favorite portrayals, for the role symbolized the wonder, power and trappings that are associated with discovering language for the first time. But her part in the show also foreshadowed a different type of dawning – a revelation that her passion for language and theatre are inextricable, so interlaced, in fact, that the affinity would eventually lead her to a dual career.

Ask Ludwig if she is a theatre teacher or a language teacher and she will answer with a decisive: “Yes.” Ludwig considers herself to be an artist and an intellect. “It depends on what time of day you ask me,” she said, reflecting on her divided work schedule, with theatre classes in the morning, French in the afternoon and rehearsals during the evening.

While French and theatre may not be considered intuitive cousins academically, Ludwig said the overlapping fulfills her penchant for structure and creativity.

Ludwig’s interest in theatre began at age 12.

When her family moved from Michigan to Nebraska, she had had no previous experience in acting. She joined a children’s theatre program in Omaha just to gain footing in her new community.

Ludwig began studying French in eighth grade, but the children’s theatre continued to serve as a significant outlet in her life. By the time she enrolled at Omaha’s Millard North High School, her passion for the stage had crystallized.

“I threw myself into that program,” Ludwig said, referring to her high school arts curriculum. “I was the theatre and choir kid, and speech.”

She enjoyed the glow of the limelight, but her stature precluded the number of productions in which she made at an entrance at curtain time. She starred as Helen Keller and performed a host of other characters when she was a teenager, but Ludwig often worked behind the scenes as a stage manager because she didn’t get parts “if there wasn’t a good role for someone who looked 12.”

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Although her onstage and backstage experiences helped her become a consummate artist, after high school, Ludwig pivoted.

She attended Trinity University in San Antonio and majored in French and economics, not theatre. In her junior year of college, she journeyed to Paris for a study abroad program to hone her skills in conversational French. She grew smitten with a different love.

For a while.

“Focusing on French was the first time in years I didn’t have the opportunity to be involved in theatre,” Ludwig said. She missed the stage.

When she returned stateside, she gained an internship with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan, a professional group of performers who tour for the Omaha Community Playhouse.

Ludwig went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre at The University of Texas in Austin and she worked in theatre professionally for eight years before becoming a full-time teacher. She was hired by Kinkaid’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts in 2012.

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ith an MFA in tow, almost a decade’s worth of expertise, and a new job as an educator, Ludwig’s circuitous interests took on a more linear path. Theatre had upstaged French. Even if she was still enraptured by the language, she seemed to settle her focus on moving in one direction.

For a while.

Two years went by at Kinkaid, and Ludwig felt a distinct longing. She approached French teacher Jane Murdock, who is also chair of the School’s World Languages Department.

“What I did originally is…I asked to sit in because I just personally wanted to get back into French,” Ludwig said.

Her goal was to take Murdock’s class simply as a refresher, but her commitment signaled more than a casual update. Ludwig re-immersed herself in the language.

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“Her first year, she sat in on my French literature class every single day,” Murdock said.

Her skills are uniquely wonderful,” Murdock said, “for not only her drama, theatre training and what that can pull out of kids, but she’s also a very organized person.”

The summer after she audited Murdock’s literature course, Ludwig’s mastery of the French language afforded her the opportunity to spend two weeks at an international language school in Aix-en-Provence, a city in southern France.

She returned and shadowed Murdock’s courses for the next two years.

“Jane and I started having conversations about me teaching…with no promises that I would be teaching French at Kinkaid,” Ludwig said.

The two educators conversed about how language and theatre overlap, expressly in the way teachers in both subjects help students overcome angst so that they can more freely explore meaning beyond what feels comfortable or organic.

“I guess we started talking about the fact that she’s a theatre teacher,” Murdock said. “Those skills would transfer so well for a language teacher to get people moving and engaged.”

Parlaying an act of collegiality into an unanticipated career boost, in 2015, Murdock wrote a recommendation for Ludwig, who decided to seek a master’s degree in French Language Teaching through Southern Oregon University. The three-year program requires graduate students to attend a summer language institute at Université Catholique de l’Ouest in Angers, which is about two hours west of Paris.

In total, Ludwig shadowed Murdock’s classes at Kinkaid for three years, using one of her mentor’s courses to complete her graduate research project, which was a study of how reflection and personalization, as complements to memorization, can assist students in learning a language.

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Jane Murdock and Michelle Ludwig

“Jane was extremely generous in letting me do my action research project in her French 3 class,” said Ludwig, who was ultimately hired in 2017 to teach French in the Middle School.

Whether she realized it or not, Ludwig encountered several signposts in her meandering history. She was a fledgling thespian who developed an interest for the French language in eighth grade, the same grade level for which she started teaching French, the same course that Murdock had taught for 28 years. The initiative she took to follow her bent for theatre and for language became a contemporary tale of how two passions converged.

“I was not sitting in her class with the idea of her mentoring me so I would teach French at Kinkaid,” Ludwig said.

That’s a point to which Murdock agreed. There is no formal teacher shadowing program at Kinkaid, so Murdock said preparing Ludwig to teach French was never their intention. Ludwig’s efforts simply turned into a benefit for the school and its students.

“Her skills are uniquely wonderful,” Murdock said, “for not only her drama, theatre training and what that can pull out of kids, but she’s also a very organized person.”

Language and theatre have been long connected at Kinkaid, Murdock said, because many of the School’s theatre teachers, including Scott Lambert, the current director of Visual and Performing Arts, have studied French literature and plays to broaden their repertoire.

Murdock said when she passed the torch for teaching eighth-grade French to Ludwig, she left her course in good hands. But Ludwig offered a counter praise, acknowledging Murdock “for laying so many of the paving stones on this most recent segment of mon chemin,” which is French for the path. Ludwig’s is one she couldn’t have predicted she would take.

“I consider it a great blessing that Kinkaid has allowed me to be both of these things and it fulfills two sides of me,” Ludwig said.

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A Tradition of Cultural Exchange contributors Carolyn McCarthy and John Rovell

Contributed by Upper School English Teacher Carolyn McCarthy and Archivist John Rovell

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he American Field Service (AFS) program was originally founded by volunteer ambulance drivers from WWI and WWII “to help prevent future conflict through educational and cross cultural exchanges.”

For more than 70 years, AFS has enabled student exchanges from more than 80 countries.

Kinkaid has participated with AFS since 1961. In that time, we have hosted 77 students from 35 countries and six continents. The country that has sent us the most students is Italy (7), followed by Germany and France (6 each). We have also hosted students from more distant lands as well, like Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Zimbabwe.

AFS students spend one year at Kinkaid, living with a Kinkaid host family and attending school, usually in the 11th or 12th grade. They take classes alongside Kinkaid students and participate in extracurriculars like sports and arts.

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Country of Origin

1961-1962

Gunilla Hedman

Sweden

1961-1962

Georg Riedinger

Germany (Baden)

1962-1963

Spiros Kachrilas

Greece

1962-1963

Monique Verry

Switzerland

1963-1964

Danielle Rabet

France (Paris)

1963-1964

Sten Christopherson

Denmark

1964-1965

Merci Alonsoa

El Salvador

1964-1965

Hideo Onoye

Japan

1965-1966

Susan Jones

New Zealand

1966-1967

Pippa Watson

Rhodesia (Bulawayo) [now Zimbabwe]

1966-1967

Walter Rodriguez

Brazil

1967-1968

Fernando Moscoso

Bolivia

1967-1968

Walter Caprez

Switzerland

1968-1969

Sheila Holloway

United Kingdom

1969-1970

Pierre Huguet

France

1969-1970

Tomoko Mazusawa

Japan

1971-1972

José Rafael (Josechu) Echeverría

Argentina

1971-1972

Marie Christine (Koeki) Claessens

Belgium

1972-1973

Peter Burgess

Australia

1972-1973

Suzanna Pereira de Noronha

Brazil

1973-1974

Christiane (Christina) Streitz

Germany (Berlin)

1974-1975

Hesam Zanafsha

Iran

1974-1975

Rita Shah

United Kingdom

1975-1976

Pablo Coda Negozio

Italy

1975-1976

Sandra Armand Urgon

Uruguay

1976-1977

Nina Myhr

Norway

1977-1978

Kristen Bakken

Norway

Kinkaid’s first AFS students were Gunilla Hedman (above) and Georg Riedinger in 1961-1962

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1978-1979

Trevor Jack

Australia

1978-1979

Lia Dias

Brazil

1979-1980

Michael Alvarez

Paraguay

1979-1980

Isabelle Grunberg

France

1980-1981

Angela Graupp

Austria

1980-1981

Pablo Raura

Argentina

1981-1982

Teofilo Masera

Italy

1982-1983

Jennifer Sapire

South Africa

1982-1983

Sherif Farag

Egypt

1983-1984

Bruno Dekeyser

Belgium

1983-1984

Viviana Lannefranque

Chile

1984-1985

Mario Nava

Mexico

1984-1985

Silke Heppler

Germany

1985-1986

Francisca Hudig

The Netherlands

1985-1986

Ayelet Lubliner

Israel

1986-1987

Karl Dalfelt

Sweden

1987-1988

Carlos Daniel Gutierrez

Chile

1988-1989

Vidhya Nagendran

Sri Lanka (Colombo)

1988-1989

Francois LaBurthe

France

1989-1990

Gumme Gunnarsson

Iceland

1990-1991

Tana Watson

New Zealand

1990-1991

Niki Kochelhuber

Austria

1991-1992

Monika Koehler

Austria

1992-1993

Pekka Paaermaa

Finland

1992-1993

Santina Maddé

Italy

1997-1998

Benedicte Langer

Belgium

1998-1999

Dominik Theler

Switzerland

1999-2000

Laure Henneguez

France

2000-2001

Macarena Sepúlveda Oviedo

Chile

2001-2002

Veronika Bednar

Hungary

2002-2003

Fabian von Scheidt

Germany (Augsburg)

Most exchange students are enrolled in US Literature and US History during their year at Kinkaid. Chai Lin, from China, 2006-2007, however, loved Shakespeare so much that she asked to take Mrs. Lambert’s AP Shakespeare class instead of US Lit. Mr. Vischak, with whom Chai Lin studied AP BC Calculus, reports that he had qualms about the number of word-based puzzles he uses to teach problem-solving; however, Chai Lin was gracious about the challenge and proved to be an able student of calculus.

Laci Kravitz, from Hungary, 2016-2017, played two types of football here: what he calls football (soccer) and, for the first time, what we call football.

Guide Rungamornchai, from Thailand, 2007-2008, went on from Kinkaid to the University of Kansas.

Nico Sidler, from Switzerland, 2013-2014, finished out his year at Kinkaid by giving a lecture to the faculty on the differences between Swiss and American education systems.

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2002-2003

Patricia Schönecher

Germany (Munich)

2003-2004

Valentina Gasbarrino

Italy

2004-2005

Silvia Casalinas

Italy (Bormio)

2005-2006

Stephanie Duschek

Germany (Stuttgart)

2006-2007

Chai Lin

China (Shijiazhuang)

2007-2008

Veeranum (Guide) Rungamornchai

Thailand

2008-2009

Pascaline Brosseau

France (Chiche)

2009-2010

Sara Vietti-Michelina

Italy

2010-2011

Apinya (Pin) Hattakitpanitchakul

Thailand

2011-2012

Raphael Jakob

Switzerland

2012-2013

Luis Pardo Garcia

Spain

2013-2014

Nico Sidler

Switzerland

2014-2015

Emma Vaisanen

Finland

2015-2016

Petra Nordgren

Sweden (Örnsklöldsvik)

2016-2017

Laci Kranitz

Hungary

2017-2018

Mati Vainstein

Argentina

2018-2019

Tommaso Casavecchi

Italy

Veronika Bednar

English teacher Kate Lambert writes, “I taught Veronika Bednar from Hungary in my eleventh grade English class during the 2001-2002 year.

I remember it was those years because I remember looking into her eyes on the morning the planes hit the twin towers. She was in my class when we realized, as the second plane hit, we were under a terrorist attack.

Kinkaid has hosted two students from New Zealand: Susan Jones (top) in 19651966 and Tana Watson (bottom) in 1990-1991.

Petra Nordgren

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“Veronika was an exceptional student. I still remember an analysis she did of “To a Waterfowl” by William Cullen Bryant; even though it was only October and she was still adjusting to English, she wrote one of the best explications in the class. Veronika loved learning and chased it fiercely. It didn’t hurt that she was also really, really smart. When she finished my class, she invited me to come to Budapest; she wanted to show me her beautiful home city.

“About nine years later, she gave us the most perfect tour we could have imagined. She took us to The House of Terror museum, to The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath (the largest medicinal bath in Europe), to a wonderful cafe, and she treated us to brunch at the most beautiful, most famous restaurant in Budapest. Best of all, she taught us all about the history of Budapest, sharing several family stories that were better than any book we could have read. Scott and I carry that day precious and all we learned from Veronika.”

History teacher and parent of Arden ’20, Beth Fayard writes, “Hosting Petra Nordgren was an interesting experience for our family. Our daughter Arden, who is an only child, got to experience what it was like to have a sibling. At the time we hosted, Arden was only 12-13 so we got an early peek as parents as to what it was like to have a full fledged teenager at home. Petra was very outgoing and really embraced the experience of being an AFS student.

She made friends across many groups at the school and participated in a number of school activities: cross country, soccer, and the Upper School musical. She has stayed in touch with some of the friends she made here. We have stayed in touch with her and had the pleasure of visiting her and her family in Sweden this past summer. We hope to continue to have a lifelong relationship with her and her family. In the end, we gained a second daughter.”

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Tommaso Casavecchi, from Italy, 2018-2019, played varsity volleyball and joined the swim team. He also competed in the Houston Art Society Fall Show, winning 2nd place in drawing.

Tommaso Casavecchi

Tommaso reports, “My experience at Kinkaid so far is amazing! I love how the School is different from mine (we go to school also on Saturdays, but school finishes at 2), and how you can choose the subjects you like most. I really like all the classes that I take, especially Spanish and Drawing and Painting. School is not as hard as my school back in Italy is but still I have to study a lot, particularly History and English as I’m studying in another language. The teachers are very friendly and helpful, every time I asked them for help they were always available. I’m making a lot of friends and I really like how they’re interested in my culture and my experience. I love how Kinkaid offers so many opportunities: during Fall I played volleyball and I had a lot of fun, while during the Winter I’m going swimming with the swimming team.

“I recommend AFS to every student as living one year abroad on your own is an experience that makes you more mature: not only you can see how people in a different country are different from you, but you also learn how their culture.

For example I celebrated Thanksgiving and Hanukkah for the first time and they were both very interesting experiences. Living one year abroad alone could seem difficult as you have to start a new life on your own, but both my family and friends are very helpful and I hardly ever feel homesick. I recommend AFS as it prepares you to live one year abroad, and while I’m here there are monthly meetings where we talk about our experiences and how to solve problems that could occur. AFS really cares about each student’s experience, which is challenging but at the same time unforgettable!”

Jamie Rubenstein ’20 reports that hosting Tommaso “has been such a cool experience!

Having somebody else’s culture, language, even style around you is so different and amazing. It takes a while to get used to, but you realize how many memories you get to make with them in their time here and how welcoming someone else into your family is an almost once in a lifetime experience. Getting another brother this year has been such a fun thing the past couple months, and will get even better in the following months!”

Pippa Watson came to Kinkaid in 1966-1967 from Zimbabwe.

History teacher and AFS program coordinator Leslie Lovett reflects, “Having an AFS student in a United States History class adds a unique perspective that enriches our students understanding of their national history. Over the years, I have taught many AFS students from Europe and Latin America. No matter where they came from, each student added an outsider’s insights into our traditional American historical narratives of democracy and liberty. Having a European student share their view of events such as World War I, World War II, or the Cold War certainly challenges our students to examine these conflicts with a different lens. Similarly, Latin American students have very distinct views on issues relating to slavery and U.S. relations with its American neighbors. While AFS students certainly gain a lot from their year at Kinkaid, I think our students equally benefit from the opportunity to see our history, society and culture from the outside looking in.

Among of the most memorable AFS students that I taught in the last 25 years were Dominik Theler (1998-1999), Raphael Jakob (2011-2012), Nico Sidler (2013-2014) and Mati Vainstein (2017-2018). Each of these young men were uniquely strong in their English skills and also extremely good students. They embraced studying U.S. History and often times set the model for their classmates about what being a ‘scholar’ is all about. They each showed a passion for learning and inspired their American classmates to think more deeply and take more intellectual risks.”

If you are a Kinkaid parent and have an interest in hosting an AFS exchange student, please contact Leslie Lovett at leslie.lovett@kinkaid.org.

Vidhya Nagendran came to Kinkaid in 1988-1989 from Sri Lanka.

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Staff Spotlight:

Meet Keith Guehring

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eith Guehring, Kinkaid’s Website Administrator, is a man of many interests.

Webmaster, artist, baseball fan and family man are all ways to describe this creative man.

He joined Kinkaid’s Technology team in November 2000 with the responsibility to manage the website. Keith says that “Ironically, I came across the web editor job opening in the employment section in the Houston Chronicle newspaper.” Prior to coming to Kinkaid, he taught art and computer media at Hastings High School in Alief ISD along with Harlan Howe, who also was hired by Kinkaid in 2000 and is currently the Technology Coordinator and Computer Teacher in the Upper School.

Since that time, Keith has launched many website redesigns at kinkaid.org to keep the School’s information current. “The website has changed quite a bit from when I started in 2000! I like finding creative solutions to website database information problems that arise.” However, one of the best parts of his work is being surrounded by intelligent and dynamic people. “I love talking with different faculty and staff members about a variety of topics. I enjoy discussing technology with my technology team, talking about art with the art teachers, and conversing about books with the English teachers and librarians. I also love the educational and technology resources available to faculty and students. It is great to see the students get excited about iPads and laptops and other technology on campus!” When he first came to Kinkaid, the Upper School had on-campus community service. He greatly enjoyed the experience to teach students to update web pages, edit photos in Adobe Photoshop and run Google analytic reports on Kinkaid’s web usage.

However, this webmaster’s original path was not always about technology and computers; his passion and focus were art. It still is. After graduating from Bellaire High School, he received a BA in studio art from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX and his M.Ed. in art education from the University of Houston. While teaching art classes at Hastings High School, Keith saw a new opportunity to develop his skills in computer electronic media. So he began to transition his teaching focus to the next level which included computer animation and graphic design. In order to eventually teach web page design, Keith started taking classes to supplement his knowledge on the use of computers and technology, which ultimately led him to Kinkaid.

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As an accomplished artist, Keith has enjoyed being a part of the Lawndale Big Show exhibitions at the Lawndale Art Center in the museum district. Keith’s art is inspired by everyday items that are right before us. “My favorite subjects to paint are the old neon road signs similar to ones seen on Route 66. Sadly, those older road signs are quickly being replaced by the new LED signs, so my subject matter is quickly disappearing on our roadways.”

Kinkaid is fortunate to have some of his artwork displayed at the School. “One of my favorite paintings is the Steinway Piano sign which is currently hanging in the Choir Room in the Student Life Building. That sign has an interesting mix of shapes and harlequin pattern.

It reminds me of some of the signs one would see in Las Vegas.”

In his free time, Keith enjoys spending time with his family which includes his wife, Monica, and son, Landon. They love attending any and all baseball games, especially Astros games, road trips across the country to visit aquariums and zoos, and art exhibits at The Museum of Fine Arts and The Menil Collection. His parents are now retired and still live in Bellaire. Keith shared, “My mother, Lois Guehring, taught math in the Kinkaid Upper School during the 1966-1967 school year. Jeb Bush was a freshman student in her algebra class that year.”

Kinkaid is fortunate to have this creative native Houstonian share his many talents and enhance our community through our website and with his artwork.

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KIPP SHINE Partnership Honors Faris Virani

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n an otherwise chilly and dreary Wednesday morning in December, a steady stream of beaming Kinkaid students and adults toted bags of brightly wrapped packages to campus in support of KIPP SHINE’s Operation Shine Box. The partnership between KIPP SHINE and The Kinkaid School honors Faris Virani, an extraordinary young man and Kinkaid student who possessed an indomitable and altruistic spirit. In accordance with his generous heart and positive attitude, one of his wishes was for his Kinkaid friends to help children in the broader Houston community. From his wish, and rooted in the School community’s love for Faris and his family, this partnership--and #FarisStrongGiving--was born.

With the Kinkaid community’s generosity gifts were collected for over 300 KIPP SHINE students. Because of some unfriendly weather on this season’s scheduled drop-off morning, the package collection was moved indoors to the Ogilvie Lobby--and what a happy outcome that change led to: all were able to see, spread across the expanse of the large community space, a sea of presents. The sight was heart-warming.

The Kinkaid School was thrilled to once again pay tribute to Faris and celebrate his generous spirit by partnering with our friends at KIPP SHINE. Thank you to those of you who donated, those of you who wished to, and those of you who endured a longer-than-normal carpool during the collection. Working together, the community continues to positively impact KIPP SHINE students and their families.

Head of the Lower School Krista Babine, Asha Virani, KIPP SHINE principal Deb Shifrine

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NEWS FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Head of School Search

Cate Morrow ’27 drops off gifts

The Head of School Search Committee continues to work alongside Carney, Sandoe & Associates to identify Kinkaid’s next leader. As a result of the consultants’ three days of on-campus visits with all constituencies (administration, alumni, board, faculty, parents, staff and students) and a community-wide online survey, the position statement for the Head of School was completed and posted by CSA, as well as to Kinkaid’s website, at the end of January. The position statement has generated a good deal of interest and the consultants continue their work of recruiting a slate of candidates for consideration, individuals who embody the qualifications and skills set identified by the community as desired in the School’s sixth Head of School.

Future Campus Development The School’s campus in the future will incorporate a new upper school building, an outdoor learning center, other learning spaces, as well as sports and arts additions. As a first step in determining future campus development, the Board has hired design professionals to assess what could be constructed—either on currently undeveloped land or in place of buildings that have had their entire useful life span.

In the planning process, land must always be considered as a scarce resource and the School must follow local building regulations and agreements. The rules of Piney Point limit building heights to 35 feet above grade, have setback requirements for buildings from the edge of our properties, and minimum requirements for open space, that is, grassed areas.

Some of Kinkaid’s land is also limited by terms of the School’s agreements with neighbors. While there are many considerations that might limit the maximum size of buildings which would ultimately be built, this initial phase of the planning process will help the School assess its available land resource.

While there are many considerations that might limit the maximum size of buildings the School would ultimately build, this initial phase of the planning process will allow Kinkaid to assess our land resource. Architectural exercise assesses one important constraint.

Community Equity and Inclusion The Board is thankful for the 200 plus parents, parents of alumni, and alumni who took time from their busy schedules to participate in the School’s ongoing dialogue around cultural competency and impactful leadership with expert Dr. Stephen Jones and his colleague Dr. Kecia Brown McManus.

The information shared during their visits to campus and further discussed in small groups provides building blocks to further support our students in their preparation for successful futures. Dr. Jones interacted with faculty during a March professional development day to help him hone recommendations for Kinkaid and plan activities for the 2019-20 school year. Opportunities for the community to continue participating in this process will be provided in the coming months.

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Zack Semander Memorial Golf Tournament The 21st Annual Zack Semander Memorial Golf Tournament was held October 15, 2018, at BraeBurn Country Club. Golfers braved a sudden cold front and enjoyed a fun day on the links with fellow Kinkaid alumni, parents, faculty and friends. Special thanks to Chair Chris Devlin Butler ’88 and Co-Chair Adam Tepper ’01, and congratulations to all of the winners!

Mark your calendar for the 2019 tournament honoring Steve Retzloff ’74 which will be held October 21, 2019 at Westwood Country Club.

Ryan Devlin ‘99 Deana Anderson, Kathy Bergmann with Chair Chris Devlin Butler ‘88

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David Strauss, Bruce Bilger ‘01, Charles Litton ‘01, Reza Ebrahimi ‘01

Holbrook Dorn, Stanley Jones ‘93, Mark Dalton ‘93, Patrick Breen

Mark Breeding ‘74, Milton West ‘71, Jay Manning ‘74, Bob Orkin ‘72

Men’s First Low Gross Winners Wil Brown ‘95, Louis Pearce ‘95, Curtis Bickers, John Nicholson

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ver 2,000 Kinkaid fans kicked off the annual Kinkaid – St. John’s football game at the Falcon Family Feast on November 2, 2018. It was a beautiful fall night at Rice Stadium. Fabulous burgers from Beck’s Prime, dancing with the DJ, face painting and lots of swag got our fans ready for a resounding victory over the St. John’s Mavericks. A huge shout out to Feast Chairs Tracey Hull and Blair Richardson Loocke ’99 and all of their volunteers for making this event such a success for all of our Falcon fans.

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he 68th Annual Kinkaid Book Fair on November 12 and 13, 2018 was a smashing success! Led by chairs Kay Lobb, Christina Van Os and Kim Hankamer, over 300 volunteers transformed the Melcher Gym into our very own bookstore complete with over 3,000 titles and a coffee bar. Students of all ages enjoyed meeting our community authors and perusing the incredible selection of books. In two days over 8,000 books were purchased.

The 8th grade dance classes with the help of Dance Teacher Aaron Girlinghouse even surprised shoppers with a flash mob each day. Head of Middle School Chelsea Collins and Chair Kay Lobb got in on the dancing too! Many thanks to our chairs, volunteers, underwriters, librarians and shoppers for reminding us year after year that reading is FUN!

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Chairs Christina Van Os 2019, Kay Lobb 2018 and Kim Hankamer 2020 in front of the flower wall created by Kim

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Fisher Ingram ‘28 with Jim & Neel Nelson and Katie & Ryan Ingram

Third Grade Grandparents’ Day

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hird Grade students presented a fabulous Egyptian themed show Tales of Temples and Tombs for their grandparents, parents and special friends on Friday, November 30, 2018. Adorned with necklaces made in their art classes, students sang songs and read poetry inspired by Egypt- one of this year’s countries for International Fair. After the show, students greeted their families and friends in the Ogilvie Lobby with photo buttons and poems to take home.

Ella Lighvani ‘28 with Afi Siamak and Niaz & Andre Lighvani

Janie Hotze, Sarah Liuzzi, Eloise Liuzzi ‘28

Brandt, Murry, Russell ‘28, Polly, Mary Kay, Mayfair Bowden

Danny Savitz, Claire Savitz, Melanie Savitz, Anna Savitz ‘28, Bette Heinrich, Karen Savitz, Rick Savitz

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Former EMSI students Jonovan Rogers, Jessica Itzep, Ace Isidro ’11

A Pivotal Experience Kinkaid’s Engineering, Math and Science Institute

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ach summer for 45 years Kinkaid has been investing in strengthening our community by offering a special educational program for bright, motivated students from underserved populations.

Since 1975, The Engineering, Math and Science Institute (EMSI) at Kinkaid has provided a pivotal educational experience for over 3,000 talented minority youth from Houston’s minority communities. EMSI has enriched and changed immeasurable lives through this summer program.

The Institute is a sequential three-year program beginning the summer after the 8th grade.

Highly motivated students apply for acceptance in the program. EMSI students selected spend four weeks on the Kinkaid campus taking intensive and challenging academic courses in science, mathematics, computer programming and an introduction to engineering studies. Classes also are offered to help prepare the students for the college application process. EMSI is offered at no cost to the program participants and transportation is provided.

Three EMSI graduates recently returned to campus to share how this educational opportunity impacted their lives and provided additional motivation to succeed in college and beyond. Their stories are just a few examples of how EMSI has enriched many lives.

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Ace Isidro ’11

Jessica Itzep

An EMSI participant and 2011 graduate of The Kinkaid School, Ace graduated from Yale University and Yale School of Public Health’s five-year BS/ MPH dual degree program. He is now completing his third year of medical school as part of The University of Pennsylvania’s five-year MD/MBA dual degree program at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School of Business.

An EMSI Graduate, Jessica is currently a Chemistry Teacher in Alief ISD and plans to pursue a Nursing Degree.

“A pivotal part of all this was the EMSI program — it was the first domino that started a chain reaction of making unthinkable parts of my life a reality.

EMSI not only brought me to Kinkaid, but also strengthened my math and science background that helped me succeed at Kinkaid, Yale EMSI was the University, and now first domino at The University that started a of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of chain reaction Medicine.”

“EMSI gave me the opportunity to take classes that I would have never been able to take in school like digital electronics, AutoCAD, and computer technology where I learned to code in HTML. At the time I was being raised by a single mother and faced economic instability. When searching for summer programs, most science and engineering camps had a fee to attend and always prevented me from applying. The fact that EMSI was a free program made all the difference.

The EMSI program was the pivotal experience that gave me confidence to pursue a career in science and I firmly believe that I would not be where I am today without EMSI. I see myself reflected in my students since the majority of them don’t see college as an attainable goal and see their socioeconomic status as a barrier. Often times I discuss with my students the importance of a college education and the growing opportunities available in STEM careers.”

of making unthinkable parts of my life a reality.

Jonovan Rogers

He is an EMSI Graduate and is currently the Director or Engineering for the Houston Astros.

Upon receiving his doctoral acceptance letter, he contacted former EMSI Director Chelsea Collins, “I just wanted to share the news with you! Thank you so much for believing in me and supporting me along the way. EMSI is like a family to me and it will mean that much to countless other lives who have the opportunity to participate in the program. Thank you for the opportunity.”

Through the years, EMSI has been fortunate to have the generous philanthropic support of local foundations, individuals and the Kinkaid Auction to underwrite the costs of the program. Kinkaid provides the facilities and much of the equipment at no charge. EMSI’s operating costs include faculty salaries, course supplies and materials, transportation and food for all students.

“Currently, our greatest challenge is the need for increased transportation.

Our students travel far distances from across the city to attend our summer Institute. Additional buses will allow our students more flexibility and less travel time before and after classes. Also, most students do not have provisions for meals, therefore, we would like to provide a healthy breakfast and lunch to our students during the entire Institute. In order to better serve our students with these necessary adjustments, we need to secure an additional $40,000 this year”, says Director of EMSI Letty Reza.

“Kinkaid is deeply proud of our consistent dedication to the EMSI Summer Institute and the lasting impact it has had on the City of Houston, its residents and families of minority youth during the past 45 years. Kinkaid has also been fortunate to have some EMSI students become members of the Kinkaid student community, as well,” says Interim Head of School Ed Trusty.

We hope you will consider supporting this special investment in the Houston community. To make a gift, please contact Assistant Director of Advancement Lisa Wood at 713-243-5023 or lisa.wood@kinkaid.org or online at kinkaid.org/ giving.

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his year’s Papadopoulos Fellow is a local heart surgeon, scientist, innovator, and artist. Dr. William E. “Billy” Cohn is the Vice President for Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies and the Executive Director of the new Center for Device Innovation at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. He is a professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Rice and University of Houston. His medical training was at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by 10 years as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as well as a full-time faculty position at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Cohn captivated the students with not only the history of artificial heart surgery at the Texas Medical Center, but also with the story of his own life. Accounts of working with both Dr. DeBakey and Dr. Cooley were a fascinating look into the historic medical advances in our medical center. Then he switched to talk about his career path and here he tried to related to some of our students who are working hard, but haven’t necessarily narrowed down their life long path. Dr. Cohn talked about being an ordinary student with extraordinary curiosity. He explained to students how it took a while for him to find his true passion, but then as soon as he did, how he focused and worked hard with determination. He talked about the experimental devices that he designed while practicing medicine. Students were impressed to find out that he has over 40 US approved or pending patents for his medical innovations. In addition, it was fun for them

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to hear that he is in a current band and loves playing music at local venues in Houston. His energy, passion, and creative mind held the interest and attention of students during the formal presentation at the Upper School assembly as well as the small Q&A sessions with AP Biology students. A number of students from other science classes also joined the group at lunch to hear more from him.

In senior Amy Ho’s reflection, she says “One important message I learned was that innovations come from anywhere. Another important message I took away was that improvement is always possible.”

Senior Tyler Baldridge liked how “he explained that passion, grit, and hard work are more important than just smarts.” Junior Noah Rubinson walked away with this thought: “I was able to learn from Dr. Cohn the importance of thinking outside the box, and pursuing and seeing to completion any idea that you may dream up – no matter how others perceive your actions.”

In the evening, Dr. Cohn joined the Papadopoulos family, science faculty and administration for a dinner and conversation. Following our dinner discussions, a group of faculty and administration were invited and took part in a tour of the Johnson & Johnson new Center for Device Innovation at the Texas Medical Center.

We are so grateful to the Papadopoulos Family for their generous endowment of this speaker series. What an incredible opportunity for our students and faculty to spend the day with renowned scientists each year.

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n November 15, 2018, the Greater Houston Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) hosted Houston’s National Philanthropy Day Luncheon. Each year, the event celebrates and honors Houston’s top philanthropic individuals, foundations and companies who have shaped our community.

It also recognizes excellence within the fundraising profession and The Kinkaid School was once again in the spotlight. Kinkaid’s Director of Advancement Tom Moore received the Byron Welch Award for Lifetime Achievement and Amy Ragan ’81 received the 2018 Outstanding Fundraising Professional Award.

2018 NPD Co-Chairs Amy Lampi, AFP Houston Chapter 2018 President Melissa Simon, Amy Ragan ’81, 2018 NPD Chair Marilu Garza

Tom, who has been a fundraising professional for 37 years, has led the fundraising efforts at Kinkaid since June 2001. “I was very humbled to receive this honor because Byron was a dear friend and mentor,” says Moore. “Advancement is truly a team effort and I have been blessed to have worked with a great group of talented trustees, volunteers and staff to raise funds to help Kinkaid students discover and develop their talents and to fulfill their best potentials.” During his time at Kinkaid, Moore has overseen three capital campaigns, annual fund drives and special events that have raised more than $164 million in philanthropic gifts.

Amy has had a successful 30 year career in non-profit fundraising and marketing. She is currently the Chief Development Officer for the Houston Food Bank and has led her development team through three capital campaigns providing for extraordinary growth for the organization. Amy shares, “I am fortunate that I love what I do and that I get to work for the Houston Food Bank where we are able to make a difference in so many lives. I also would not be where I am today without my dedicated and hardworking development team.”

“Fundraising is a meaningful and noble profession and we are so proud that our own Tom Moore and alumna Amy Ragan were recognized for their many talents with these outstanding awards.” says Interim Head of School Ed Trusty.

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Athletics Review Boys Varsity Cross Country

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SPC Finish: 14th Place

Overall Record: 9-1-1 Conference Record: 8-1

Girls Varsity Cross Country South Zone Finish: 1st Place SPC Finish: 1st Place All South Zone Award Winners: Kevriana Scott ’22 (Champion), Laura Behr ’21, Alexandra Blake ’20, Caroline Keller ’19, Camila Vicens ’20, Alison Zhang ’21 All SPC Award Winners: Laura Behr ’21, Alexandra Blake ’20, Kevriana Scott ’22, Camila Vicens ’20

South Zone Finish: 1st Place SPC Large School Finish: 1st Place with a 41-21 victory over Episcopal High School All SPC Award Winners: Zach Daniel ’19, Victor Garza ’20, Ameer Mustafa ’19, Jordan Ricks ’20, Joshua Williams ’19, Wyatt Young ’19

Boys Varsity Volleyball Overall Record: 13-13

Varsity Cheerleading Summer Camp Competitions: 1st Place in Sideline Cheer, 2nd Place in Pep Rally Routine Fall UCA Regional Competition: 5th Place Overall All-American Winners: Chloe Fondren ’19, Margaret Frandina ’19, Katelyn Gamble ’20, Caroline Petersen ’19, Kate Riley ’20, Caroline Totz ’19

Conference Record: 4-4 South Zone Finish: 3rd Place SPC Finish: 7th Place All South Zone Award Winners: Alex Frumovitz ’19, Scott Morey ’20 All SPC Award Winners: Kamsi Ndee ’22

Girls Varsity Volleyball Varsity Field Hockey

Overall Record: 18-14-1

Overall Record: 14-7

Conference Record: 2-4

Conference Record: 4-1 South Zone Finish: 2nd Place SPC Finish: 2nd Place All South Zone Award Winners: Laine Jacobe ’19, Olivia Marrus ’19, Annabel Skubisz ’20, Emmy Stubbs ’22 All SPC Award Winners: Laine Jacobe ’19, Olivia Marrus ’19, Lauren Moak ’21, Annabel Skubisz ’20

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South Zone Finish: 4th Place SPC Finish: 5th Place All South Zone Award Winners: Madi Malouf ’19, Onuchi Ndee ’19 All SPC Award Winners: Onuchi Ndee ’19, Marynell Ward ’19

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t was another busy fall for Kinkaid Visual and Performing Arts!

September The Carothers/Edwards Guest Artist series brought Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards winner Martin Lowe to campus for an afternoon of music and stories. Kinkaid’s Concert Choir, 8th Grade Choir and 4th Grade choir members worked with Mr. Lowe on some of his work from Once, Mama Mia and Pinocchio.

October Several of our film students attended the All-American High School Film Festival in New York City. While there they competed in the “Claustrophobic Creativity Challenge” where they had just 32 hours to create a film. October also saw TWO upper school theatre performances.

The first, These Shining Lives, chronicled the story of women working at Radium Dial Company. Now known as “The Radium Girls”, these women were among the first workers to sue employers for unsafe working conditions, initiating the decades-long battle which finally established the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and made the workplace safer for us all.

The second, Agnes of God, ushered in a new series for us—the KinkADE Underground. The Underground is an opportunity for our advanced acting students to create an Actor Driven Event (no sets, no lights, no costumes) while working on more thought-provoking literature that challenges both actor and audience to critically think about issues.

Our musicians were equally busy in October. A fall choir concert featuring the concert choir, 8th Grade Choir, and Encore performed a tribute to Autumn and our band, choir, and symphonic orchestra celebrated Halloween with a “Hauntcert.”

Meanwhile, our galleries were filled with an exhibit entitled, “Reflections” that allowed our lower, middle, and upper school art students to work on combined pieces exploring our four core values: Honesty, Kindness, Respect and Responsibility.

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November Our Dance Company performed their annual concert, Mosaic, which among many other works, featured an original Bollywood piece by Kinkaid alumnus Kavita Rao ’01. Our Fine Arts Leadership Board hosted a Holiday Village Creating Party where upper school students created a gingerbread village that graced the Ogilvie Lobby for the holidays and then the group headed over to hear our creative writing students read their works. That week ended with our journalism students distributing their second edition of this year’s Falcon.

December The month started with a busy theatrical weekend. Our Children’s Theatre students performed The True Story of the Three Little Pigs while our 5th and 6th graders performed a production of The Odyssey.

Meanwhile, our Fine Arts Leadership Board was busy hosting our annual Coffeehouse event. The month concluded with the largest Visual and Performing Arts we host: The Margaret Kinkaid Holiday Concert. Audience members had the opportunity to view our galleries filled with art while enjoying our middle school music ensembles and then joined our upper school students in the Katz Performing Arts Center for our annual holiday concert.

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or 85 years Jane Hoffert Moore ’46 has been a member of the Kinkaid Family. It’s a distinction she claims with pride. As Jane recalls, her family moved from Shreveport, LA to Houston when she was a very young child.

Her father immediately began to research the schools in the neighborhood and determined that Kinkaid was the best school in the city. She entered first grade on the Richmond Campus in the fall of 1934, and 12 years later graduated a “Lifer” in 1946.

Jane’s mother was an accomplished seamstress and made all of Jane’s clothes. This was the era of “simple dressing” and Mrs. Kinkaid banned Jane Hoffert Moore’s 1946 senior dresses made of silk, satin or velvet. As Jane says, yearbook photo

“It was her school and her rules and regulations.”

One day Mrs. Kinkaid called her mother and asked her to come and see her in her office. Thinking Jane had done something inappropriate, she rushed to the school to meet with Mrs. Kinkaid. Mrs. Kinkaid explained that Jane always looked so lovely and was dressed so beautifully but could she please dress her simpler and more basic. Jane laughed and said, “It became our family joke that in my 12 years at Kinkaid, I was never called into Mrs. Kinkaid’s office but my mother was!”

Jane speaks fondly of Mrs. Kinkaid saying she was brilliant and far ahead of her time in recognizing the importance of educating the whole child, not just in the basics but in a variety of extracurricular experiences. Jane had a wonderful

rapport with her. Mrs. Kinkaid would ask her how she felt about things, always wanting to know the student’s view. She took a personal interest in each boy and girl. One of Jane’s most memorable stories of Mrs. Kinkaid was her insistence that every senior walk across the stage at graduation whether they had completed the work or not. Whatever the reason, Mrs. Kinkaid and the teachers would diligently work with the child over the summer to finish the requirements and receive his or her diploma. Jane remarked, “I could have been one of them.” Her father died in February before her May graduation in 1946. Shortly thereafter, her mother’s car was broken into and her ring book with her testing folder and all of her last semesters work was stolen. Jane thought she would never make it

Contributed by Lynn Meyer Fort ’68

up in time but with their help, she did and was able to receive her diploma on time.

Jane went on to Baylor University where she was a Pi Phi and PreMed major with an interest in Plastic Surgery. Her family and doctor discouraged her from this pursuit so upon graduation Jane went to work in the Shell Research Lab. It was during this time that Jane joined the College Women’s Club and was asked by the President to start a new area of study for recent college graduates. This was the beginning of many years of community service as she became an active member of the Downtown Club, the Professional Women’s Club, the Heritage Society and Bluebirds to name just a few.

Jane and her husband Abner raised their three daughters in the Memorial area. In 1967 a friend told her about five acres behind the blue farm house on the corner of Taylorcrest and Piney Point that she might be able to purchase. Jane went to visit the acreage and knew immediately that she wanted to develop it. She was able to purchase the tract, and in Jane Hoffert Moore ‘46 with Former 1969 began the process. Jane Manager of Alumni Activities and Annual was ahead of her time and Giving Emily Wynne Bolin ‘82 at the 2015 Alumni Holiday Party insisted on the utilities being laid underground. She didn’t want to damage the trees. With her thorough and persuasive argument, she was able to convince the City of Piney Point to do just that, making it the first subdivision in the area with underground utilities. White Pillars is the name of the street.

Jane first served on the Kinkaid Alumni Board from 1996 – 1999, and then was asked to serve two more terms from 2011 – 2017. In the spring of 2017, the Board decided to make an amendment to the bylaws and created an Emeritus position for Jane and Marie Fay Evnochides ’59. Jane still attends meetings as often as possible and remains a valued member of the Board. “It’s been a privilege and pleasure to serve,” says Jane. She is also pleased that her granddaughter Rachel Ishmael ’12 (fs) attended Kinkaid during high school.

For the last 10 years, Jane has served as the class correspondent for the Classes of 1928-1949. Alumni from those years say they know immediately who is calling when they hear that first “hello” in her distinct “cultured” Southern accent – it’s a voice you never forget!

There’s not much anyone would forget about Jane. She’s honest, witty, intelligent and passionate about Kinkaid and its future. She’s also a friend for life. Spending the day with Jane is an amazing history lesson, not just about the School and its founder but about the city and the families that made it what it is today. Her wealth of knowledge has been a blessing to all who have had the privilege of knowing her.

If you haven’t had the chance, take a moment and seek her out.

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Retired Lower School Teacher Kay Bartle, Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ‘53, Page Thomson Steele ‘54, Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa ‘76, Francita Stuart Ulmer ‘49, Katherine Fay Smith ‘54 (fs)

Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa ‘76, Page Thomson Steele ‘54, Fanelle Logue Laughlin ‘52, Beth Connelly McGreevy ‘52, Retired LS Teacher Kay Bartle, Katherine Fay Smith ‘54 (fs), Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ‘53 at the Green Thumb Garden Club Luncheon at the Junior League of Houston on December 6, 2018

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visits them in Alaska at least three times a year. She has a chalet in Ski Country.

Jane Hoffert Moore ’46 1620 Calumet Street Houston, TX 77004 713-529-9700 Jane looks forward to hearing from her fellow alumni before June 1 so she can share up-to-date news about them in the Summer Magazine.

1950 – 1957 Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ’53 3121 Buffalo Speedway, Apt 4104 Houston, TX 77098 713-621-4673 texaschm2@att.net Page Thomson Steele ’54 23714 Cansfield Way Katy, TX 77494 713-504-3792 pagetsteele@yahoo.com We are in a New Year! And still here! Hooray!

The Kinkaid Alumni Holiday Party sent us forth into Christmas with a resounding Falcon Cheer! Such yummy food and a great crowd. The Christmas decorations were beautiful. Seen there were Tom Cronin ’54

Tom Cronin ‘54 and Jess Stark ‘55 at the Alumni Holiday Party in December 2018

and his wife Judy and Dunbar Chambers ’53 and his wife Trish. Also there was Page Thomson Steele ’54 and yours truly, Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ’53. Thank you, Tom, Alexa and your dedicated helpers! You gave us a great evening and memory!

Going backwards starting in August, there was a small gathering of Kinkaid friends to celebrate the birthday of Katherine Fay Smith ’54 (fs).

Katherine’s daughter Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa ’76, who is also an active Kinkaid alumna, was there along with retired Lower School teacher Kay Bartle, Page Thomson Steele ’54, Francita Stuart Ulmer ’49 and yours truly, Jane. Lots of memories and laughter about past times over “Birdies” and pecan balls at the River Oaks Country Club Terrace Room.

Every Saturday Kay Bartle and I look for good movies and one appears once a month. Call and join us if you would like. We call ourselves “The Kinkaid Kittens Movie Madness”.

Sue Bailey Dunn ’55 is always visiting her son Lance in Alaska. Lance is a very successful lawyer there. Her two grandsons Christian and Colt spend every summer with her. She

Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ‘53 and brother Ted Heyck ‘59 in Lake Arrowhead, CA in January

Seen at various Junior League of Houston Emeritus activities are Jane Arnold Touchstone ’50 and Jane White Braden ’50. Also seen are Almeria Thompson Cottingham ’51 and Fanelle Logue Laughlin ’52.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Fanelle’s husband Joe, a wonderful gentleman. Those are hard to find! Always have been! Our sympathies also go out to Jean Forsyth Garwood ’50 for the death of her daughter Susan Clayton Garwood.

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has dedicated the Northville Health Center in her memory for her lifelong commitment to protecting reproductive healthcare. It is now the Susan Clayton Garwood Northville Health Center.

The Houston Junior League Adelaide Baker Sustaining Club Luncheon was held in the fall also. The Adelaide Baker award winner was Susan Lawhon Paton, a longtime Houston volunteer dedicated to service to our city. The Lawhon family is a longtime involved Kinkaid family. Delicious food was served – especially the orange rolls and pecan balls as only the Junior League can accomplish. Seen there was Beth Connelly McGreevy ’52.

Carribbee Dance Club saw Harriet Calvin Latimer ’50 dancing away to our old timey tunes. Way to go! Julia Moore Jones ’55, part of “the Southampton Gang” with me “a few years ago,” was also there.

The fall meeting of Brown Thumb Garden Club brought out a group of us Kinkaid alumni to hear Stuart Kensinger’s excellent talk on “Building Peace in the Holy Land”.

We were all awed by his intensive and dangerous pursuit of religious peace for all.

I will end with The Christmas Dance of Sarabande Dance Club. I have come full circle back to Christmas. Sarabande has lived at least 60 years and was started in high school. Thanks to many Kinkaid alumni helpers! Seen there was Fay Ann Hannon ’57.

I went to visit my brother Ted Heyck ’59 in January to bide my time between Los Angeles and Lake Arrowhead.

Times a wasting! Send us some news! Would love to hear from you!

Hugs, Jane and Page From the Advancement Office: We are saddened to report the passing of Alexander Adams ’50 (fs) and Allison Joy ’50 (fs). Their obituaries are included in the “In Memory” section on page 64-65 of this magazine.

1958 Lucy Lee Lamme Houston, TX lucylamme@att.net As hard as it will be to follow in Linda Beeley Denison’s footsteps, I’ll step back into my black suede loafers and try, with your help.

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New book written by Sonja Klein ‘59

Jody Ruhl surely wins the Purple/Gold award for the most diverse activities. She is a Texas Master Naturalist volunteer, and with her daughter Letitia is the first mother/daughter duo. As if she wasn’t busy enough with children and grandchildren, she has sponsored a boy in the Congo for nine years. She works for the Bexar County Elections as an Election Judge. And she is – wait for it – a member of the Texas Clown Association as “Hopscotch” Elections, clowns. Hum. Jody and Charlie Knipe’s grandson Zane will play football for Rice as a top Houston area recruit.

Cousin Will Lee “summers/winters” in San Miguel de Allende and then “ins” in Austin. He is the owner and operator of Council Oaks Assisted Living for persons with special needs, and I am proud of him.

Margaret Flowers Sobel, after being gone for years, has just moved back to Houston.

Jim Parks has been married forever with five kids, six grands and seems to have been on the move from Fort Worth to Santa Fe, NM to Austin to Durango, CO. He gives a shout out to Mrs. Hooks, everybody’s math mentor.

Sue Shaffer Peters still “laissez les bon temps rouler” in New Orleans as always, but when she needs a Yankee fix, she spends a month in Maine.

She does the same stuff we all do puttering around, and she is single.

Tommy Dyke (fs), the heartthrob of our elementary years, broke our hearts by leaving Kinkaid. He went on to UT biz and law and has been in various related endeavors, including writing a book, Momma Moves In. Sally Eastham Chapoton and hubby Buck live, as always, in the DC area, and she still has singing gigs, but probably not Gilbert and Sullivan.

Eddie and Dorothy Malone Gumbert live as always in Wimberley. Their son-

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in-law Saul has a chest-full of gold medals from the Olympics’ wheelchair race.

year on his birthday. He rode a 76mile route for his February birthday this year.

Bob Everett and wife Anne surprised us at the Richmond Guard Purple & Golden Luncheon and surprised me more by forgetting we were prom dates...

Virginia Howe Kincaid reports that extensive community theatre involvement continues to keep her occupied. Her latest role was the Jungian mother in the intense drama “‘night, Mother”. When not memorizing monologues, she spends time with eight grandchildren, five near her in Oregon and three Danes living in Copenhagen.

So many of us ’58ers had kids and now grandkids at Kinkaid - long, precious friendships. Tami Baird Dyer, Linda Lester Griffin, our dear late Margery Griswold Curry and I had 2017 Allegro Debs - sisterhood. And Tami’s grandson J.D. Dyer ’17 and my grandson Lawson Lamme ’17 are long pals and roommates at A&M. The Kinkaid connection continues. Do we have any great grandparents in ’58?

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From Jim Redford, we hear that he retired from architectural practice in 2015 after 50 years. Jim left Houston for Dallas in 1972, then moved to New Mexico in 1989. He and his wife live on the side of a mountain at 6,200 ft elevation, just outside Silver City, a small community of 10,000 or so in the southwest section of New Mexico. They have two daughters, both of whom live with their families in Austin. Jim says he does a little writing and architectural and historical presentations to various groups in the community.

John David Hagerman The Woodlands, TX johndhagerman@hotmail.com

Skip Hamilton is still working full time and living flood-free in the New Braunfels area.

Linda and John David Hagerman are pleased to announce the arrival last year of the following grandchildren:

Harvey Kincaid is waiting to break into show business in Hollywood, CA, but the phone has yet to ring.

Charlie-Rose Carolyn Rouault born to their daughter Holly E. Hagerman Rouault and her husband Frederick Rouault in Portland, OR

From the Advancement Office: Author Sonja Klein released a new book in October 2018 entitled Saplings, Switches, and Twigs. This book is full of non-fiction essays on life, travel, aging and a family history of German Texans until the present.

The stories will make you laugh, cry and reflect – full of wit and wisdom.

Ann Gardner Arens (fs) reports that after four moves to Texas from various places in Colorado over the years, she and Jim moved back to a ranch in the Brenham area four years ago from Bayfield, CO (where the Skip Vaughans were neighbors), and they’re raising registered Brangus cattle. This year they’re raising the equivalent of Kobe beef using the Brangus mamma cows and a recently purchased Wagyu Bull Herdsire of Japanese origins. Ann has offered to host a 60th class reunion at the ranch (a year early) this spring. We’ve had positive indications of interest and plans are in the works.

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Please send me an e-mail if you’re not on our group address and receiving my periodic communications.

From the Advancement Office: We are saddened to report the passing of Aubrey Calvin (fs). His obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 67 of this magazine.

Harrison Holt Hagerman born to their son Clayton R Hagerman and his wife Holly R Rice Hagerman in Houston.

Allan Port Houston, TX 713-569-2194 allan.port@att.net Sassy English Stanton Houston, TX sassy@stanton-pinckard.com Bob Cronin reports that he rode his bicycles more than 4,100 miles last year. He lives in the California Bay Area and about half the miles are everyday errands, shopping and the like. He prefers cycling to driving, so the car stays in the driveway most of the time. Since his 50th birthday, Bob has ridden one mile for each

As for your scribe (Allan Port), I had several visits to Aspen, CO this winter, and I’m pleased to report that these old legs still work pretty well on the slopes. My longtime ski buddy has a house there, and I’ve been a fortunate guest over the past 15 years or so. Aspen delights.

1961 Samuel Crocker Houston, TX samuelcrockerlaw@gmail.com Sadly, Jessica Clark passed away on

December 3, 2018 of an uncontrollable infection. I remember her as a lovely blonde with a quick wit and infectious smile. Her obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 65 of this magazine.

A good time to share my existential tenet - we all stay alive, young and vibrant for as long as the last person who knew us joins us on the other side of the great river. So it be with a growing number of our beloved classmates whose spirits still abide with us all.

Only (hint hint) Glory Hopkins responded to my latest plea for an update, and did she reply! Briefly summarized, after 41 years she still lives in Richmond, TX. She retired from a lifelong career as Ft. Bend County District Clerk to devote herself to mammals and plants. First, the mammals: (i) Her daughter Libby King and her husband are both practicing lawyers. Libby was just sworn in before the U.S. Supreme Court, but as luck would have it Kavanaugh was being sworn in so Glory was barred from attending.

Their son James Rich has five belts in TKD (Korean high jinks) and plays in all the sports. (ii) Glory has spent decades as a rescue mom, giving homes to lost critters of all sorts, most recently, Buddy (Schnauzer/ Dachshund), Bella (calico cat) and three feral cats. Second, on the plant side Glory is an accomplished green thumb and acclaimed cook.

Nancy Hoskins Epley and husband Bub are also devoted to animals - they focus on their herd of Beefmaster and coveys of Quail. Happily, both are destined for the dinner table.

Their granddaughter Cleo (daughter of their son Alex Epley ’86) graduated from Episcopal HS and headed off to “cawledge” (as Mr. Reed pronounced it).

Speaking of lost classmates, I ran across John Adger (fs) when I was visiting my parole officer (ha!). He is also into mammals, devoting his career to thoroughbred horses, no less. Bob McNair was one of his clients. John’s daughter Bettina ’99 (fs), an old classmate of my daughter’s, lives in Austin and has a threeyear-old daughter, India. John refused my plea for the inside on next year’s Triple Crown.

Bard Schachtel is a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist in Dallas. His latest book is entitled Whose Fault Was That? A Journey Into Blaming And Other Musings. Maybe he can help solve the eternal problems - “honey, sorry, I can’t hear your” and “again, lovie, where is the mustard in the fridge” – inter-spousal deafness and blindness.

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1962 Adrian Turner Ross Houston, TX adrian@rexross.com Happy 2019, Class of 1962!

Here are a few reports from classmates that we haven’t heard from in a while.

Vicky Schnorbus is still living in Pflugerville, TX. She is doing volunteer work in the Pflugerville ISD, mostly with kindergarten but a few first grades. Way to stay active, Vicky!

Richard Domercq and his wife Patrice traveled to Australia in January. He attended the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, completing his personal “Grand Slam” by attending his fourth major (Wimbledon, the French Open and the U.S. Open being the other three). During the trip, Richard met John Newcombe, his personal tennis idol, and spent a day touring Sydney with John and his wife Angie, who are friends of Patrice’s family. Having completed his bucket list in fantastic fashion, Richard will now turn his attention to Patrice’s list.

Carol Ericsson has been working for the past two years at The American Red Cross Headquarters in a division that is called Services to the Armed Forces. Carol says, “Although I only work 20 hours a week, I am privileged to help military families in crisis: dealing with murder, death, suicide and all sorts of health issues.” Thank you, Carol, for your service.

Lucy Austin writes that her oldest daughter Sara (27) got married this past September to Justin Long. The wedding was in Jackson, WY. Such a beautiful venue!

Susan Cooper Gaudet and her husband Bob live in the house where they have lived for a long time in West Roxbury, a neighborhood of Boston. Their two girls still live nearby, so they are lucky to be able to see them (and for one, her husband, and for the other, her boyfriend) and their dogs regularly.

She and Bob have done a lot of traveling visiting relatives and friends during the past year.

Earl Hankamer (fs) proudly reports on his family, beginning with his grandson Michael Horne ’18 who is a freshman at Texas A&M, while Michael’s younger brother William ’19 (fs) will be playing football at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in the fall. Earl’s oldest daughter Karen Hankamer Horne ’88 and her husband have moved to Franklin, TN just south of Nashville. Karen is working for

a women’s private school in the area. Daughter Joanna Hankamer ’89 has just celebrated her adopted son Cy (7) in West Hollywood, CA. Daughter Heather Hankamer Consoli ’90 and her husband Jason are enjoying their son Harrison ’21 and daughters Kate ’23 and Anna ’25, who attend Kinkaid.

Chip Stanberry and his wife Janet are dealing with the aftermath of a fire that practically destroyed their home and belongings.

I am sad to inform you that Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton (fs) passed away recently. Even though Dorothy left Kinkaid in her Upper School years, she remained a faithful supporter of our Kinkaid class. Her obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 65 of this magazine.

We have lost contact with a number of our classmates. Either mailing or e-mail addresses have changed or gone missing. If you can update any information for the following, please e-mail me or the Alumni Office at Kinkaid. Judy Jarvis Ellis, Tim Havens, Charles Castillo, Gay Alspaugh Roane, Bobby Avant, Tom Stuewe, Paul Griffin, Gunila Hedman Myrnerts (fs), Anne Jamieson Miller, Richard Jones, George Mayes, Jeff Parker, George Riedinger, Bill Robinson, Bob Watts and Charlotte Watts. It is possible that we have not been aware of someone’s passing, and if you know, please relay the information.

Thank you to those of you who are keeping me posted. I appreciate the updates.

Best wishes for a great 2019, Adrian Turner Ross

1963 Calanne Koenig Choate Pearland, TX mayamom@hotmail.com Here we go again! Time certainly does fly. Thank you to those folks who sent updates. This past fall and winter have gone quickly. I have been working part time at Huntington Learning Center, tutoring kids of all ages after school and on Saturdays. I guess you can’t get teaching out of a teacher’s soul! It feels normal to me to be teaching again. I did miss the kids, but not all the other stuff! Then John and I went with our son and his family to Winter Park, CO for the week of Christmas. I have never been in deep snow nor in zero-degree weather before. It was my first experience with long underwear and snow suits and boots!

I will always remember Christmas Eve on the big mountain with the skiers zigzagging down with beautiful lighted torches and singing

Christmas carols. Hope all of you had as wonderful a holiday season as I did! Now, on to class news.

I must say that I am disappointed that more of you did not respond… you know who you are! However, it was great to hear from those of you who responded. Many thanks! Now on to class responses and news…

Betsy Bowen Phillips (fs) said, “Hi Calanne, good for you for keeping us all going! This past year Bob ’62 and I continued our volunteer work with Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the Arboretum (Bob) and Pro Vision Academy (Betsy). Pro Vision is a state charter school in the Sunnyside area of Houston for economically disadvantaged youth in that area. It introduces very innovative programs, like an urban farm, for its students, grades K thru 12. We also enjoyed traveling to Crested Butte, CO to meet our son Nick ’88, San Antonio with our grandson Stuart, as well as Sea Island, GA and Cape Cod, MA. Happy New Year to you and your family, Calanne, and, again, thank you for taking on this task every year.” It’s always good to hear from Betsy and Bob! Mary Nell Jeffers Lovett said, “Malcolm ’62 (fs) and I were with our children and grandchildren for Thanksgiving week in Round Top, TX and South Texas and for a very snowy Christmas and New Year in Telluride, CO. April will find us briefly abandoning our beloved France for Madrid and Barcelona, where I will channel Senora Buetel (with some language brush-up via Babbel) and then take the train to Paris where we hope all will have shed their “yellow jackets” and are peacefully sprawling in the sunshine along the Seine and in the Tuileries. May will bring double graduations: Jeffers Shaper ’19 from Kinkaid and Lovett Shaper ’15 from the University of Texas. Life speeds on!” Always interesting and fun things in Mary Nell”s life! Thank you for sharing with us, Mary Nell!

Art Beane is always busy, as you can see! He said, “Glad you are still alive and kicking and certainly hope you and your family are well.

Quite a bit going on at our end. Our seven children, step and original, are healthy and gainfully employed.

Their various jobs include fashion marketing with Marimekko, parenting, Kinder-Music teaching, body piercing, social work, assistant brew mastering, mothering and a UCSB tenure research professorship, i.e. my son Matthew.

By the way, Matthew’s TED TALK was aired February 4th. Recently, I formed The Magnolia Blues Quartet that includes guitars/vocals (yours truly), a pedal steel guitar and alto

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Sax. We performed our debut at local Asian Indian shop, Floating Lotus, on February 21st. While I am busy with playing and practicing music, I study and teach Uechi Ryu Karate, a traditional Okinawan Karate. My 5th degree black-belt test was January 25. Of the 184 black belt candidates tested, I am the oldest at 74.5 years. My wife Margaret is an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor and massage therapist. She is also a Reiki Master, Polarity Therapist and a Craniosacral Therapist. She loves her work and therefore never really goes to work. Best wishes to my classmates near and far.” Wow! How do Art and his family have time to do anything else? They lead a fascinating life, don’t you think? By the way, here is all of Art’s pertinent info for you!

Arthur Beane, Ed.D. 27 Norman Avenue Magnolia, MA. 01930 “artprop@comcast.net” “www.260voicemailgreetings.com” “www.outskirtspress.com/waitinforheratthestation” Cell: 1-(978)-675-1446 Bob Morse also responded with, “Calanne and comrades - greetings! As it turns out, I am writing this missive from my room at the Westin Galleria here in Houston, where I am attending a conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers. This is a fly-in at the last minute, do my business and fly out deal, and due to obligations at the home end, no chance to get here earlier or stay later. I am truly sorry to have missed the reunion last year - various events with my mother-inlaw’s living situation made it unreasonable to be here at the reunion time. Duty called. To use a four-letter word, DRAT! I hope and trust that you are all well, and hope you (and I) will stick around long enough to make the next one. Still mostly retired, I do keep a bit active in the physics teaching community, and wife Mimi is busy quilting and painting in water colors - she is getting good and has sold a number of her works. Our three progeny are all in the Boston area, and we visit there as time allows. Living in DC recently is more than a bit distracting as the government, by all three houses, has for the last several years taken on the trappings of a reality (or perhaps I should say unreality) show. Again, DRAT! Ben Franklin, my favorite founder, when asked at the end of the constitutional convention “What kind of government have you given us Dr. Franklin?” responded, “A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” Food for thought. I hope that Mr. Moss would approve of at least some of the motley collection of bon mots in the above. I

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hope that you, my classmates and all your families are well. Live long and prosper!” Wonderful news from Bob! He continues to be a delightful personality!

Lucy Clark Shaw said, “Not too much to report. Kids live all over - Stockholm, Singapore, Bend, OR, Santa Monica, CA and Marin County, CA. Was in California with family for Thanksgiving then spent the Christmas holidays with my eldest son Chaz who lives with his family in Stockholm. Wonderful time but very cold and dark early! This Texas girl was glad to get back to warmth.

And thanks for ALL you do! You are amazing and I am very grateful to be able to keep up with folks because of your hard work!” I will look forward to lunch with Lucy soon. Anybody able to join us? Let me hear from you!

OK, folks! That’s about it! Any time that you are in town and available for lunch, let us know! Janie and I are proud of being the Ladies Who Lunch! We are always happy to accommodate any lunch requests!

Best wishes for a happy and healthy spring! Go Falcons!!

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grandchildren will be performing in musicals (different ones) that week.”

Claire Andreae Murray 3913 Rickover Rd Silver Spring, MD 20902 301-946-2184 claire.murray@verizon.net

Tog George thoroughly agrees “nothing to do for old folks but trudge around to grandchildren’s games” as he delights in the “biggest news in my life is a new granddaughter Charlotte Seiders, daughter of Emily George Seiders ’96, also a Kinkaid graduate.”

Another season of holiday gatherings honoring family and cherished friends old and new has passed inviting in a whole New Year of opportunities and adventures as we leave arctic chills behind. I personally am relishing meeting my trusty mount, a double humped beast hopefully with a temperate soul as he/she waltzes me around Bedouin camps in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. I will lift a glass to toast you all with great glee when they belt out “Play it Again Sam” at Rick’s Café in Casablanca.

Pati Mengden Eckhardt is also still taking a bite out of life sharing “I am enjoying life: working with the St. Anne’s Guild and the Museum of Fine Arts Guild. I still keep Real Estate Broker and Counselor/Art Therapy licenses current. And am having fun raising a Papillon puppy named Fancy Latte.”

Talk about making the most of life…

Cindy Bambeck Smith is off on another adventure, “We are planning to leave for Argentina and Antarctica this week. Adventure! Sorry to miss the reunion. Two of our Connecticut

Not to be out done Jamie Vaughan shared, “I continue to teach geography-related classes at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Last semester I created and taught a new course “Revealing Geography through Film and Pop Culture.”

I am still in New Braunfels, TX. Over Christmas my younger daughter (who currently lives in Alabama but will soon be moving to DC) visited along with her two daughters Margo and Audrey (my granddaughters, obviously). We had a lot of fun. My older daughter Jamie, an attorney in Dallas, called a few weeks ago with the news that she will be having triplets in May. Oh My!!

Rocky McAshan also relishing life with his family reports, “Most of my activity has been with family around our new home other than our trip to Yellowstone with my daughter and grandson. In addition to that I did see David Bradshaw at our 50th reunion at Rice in November. Sorry

Jay Jorns ‘65 and Susan Lorino LaCoste ‘65 at the Steamboat House in Houston

Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter was not there.”

Who knew high school graduates would end up as doting grandparents 55 years later? Hopefully at the next printing there will be tall tales about how the Class of ’64 golden oldies have gathered and celebrated their 55th Reunion together with much geriatric fanfare. TBD….

T H E K I N KA I D S C HO OL Calling All Authors!

Book Fair 2019 would like to showcase some of Kinkaid’s own authors in addition to our annual Visiting Authors.

If you are a part of the Kinkaid community, have published a recent book and would like us to consider featuring our work, please visit www.kinkaid. org/communityauthors to fill out the quick form. Deadline is June 1. Space for authors is limied.

Book Fair is November 11-12, 2019.

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Tami Fox Brau Austin, TX tazmazan@gmail.com Jay Jorns and Susan Lorino LaCoste are still dating and looking forward to a trip to Annapolis, MD in March and a cruise to Puerto Vallarta in June.

Madeline Maxwell still works full time at The University of Texas at Austin. Although she has not been able to grow the Peace program with outside funding, they do have excellent certificate programs for both undergrad and grad students, an annual research conference, a summer camp for high school students (have had a few Kinkaid kids) and a mediation and facilitation program so the college students get experience working with conflicts. Madeline says, “I don’t have retirement plans, but I think about it… I’ve been hiking and helping on animal research projects through the Earthwatch organization in Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica, France, down the road at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and more, and that makes for great vacations.”

Don McGuirt says he has no news to report. He is just enjoying life, good health and his grandkids.

Johnetta Baker Scheh is still doing well out in the country. She is having fun taking various consulting landman projects and then using her realtor license in finding the best home or property for prospective buyers anywhere in Texas. Johnetta says the best part of her life now is enjoying her six-year-old grandson and of course his parents. Johnetta sends a special prayer for comfort for the family and friends of Susan Davis Johnson as she was a very special person to the Class of ’65.

Larry Hankamer (fs) reports, “I’m a residential real estate agent with Graham Central Properties, serving Austin, Lakeway and the Hill Country.”

Hal Martin writes from his home in Mexico, Punta Mita, located at the tip of the Bay of Banderas, 40 minutes from Puerta Vallarta, “My store in Houston is doing well. Married to wife Amy for six years. No kids.

I am an ambassador for the USAPA, The United States America Pickleball Association, and play competitive pickleball every week as much as I can. Still play golf, especially at my home in Mexico. My health is good and I pray and hope and wish all of my classmates to be strong and stay healthy. Lastly, YouTube pickleball. And if any of you would like me to introduce you to the game, please reach out.”

On a sad note...Within the last several months, our class has lost four won-

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derful classmates. We, as a class, look back to the great times with our friends and cherish the memories of those who are no longer with us. What we discovered is sometimes, it’s the smallest things, like a spontaneous smile or basketball shot that can make a lasting memory.

Susan Davis Johnson was a true trailblazer, always on the leading edge, one of the strongest people I have known, and the glue that held our class together way before the internet and email made that task much easier. Nancy Cooper, one of a handful of classmates who started in kindergarten at the Richmond campus, greeted everyone with a loving smile and open arms always welcoming newcomers, like me, as if they had always been a part of her Kinkaid family. Susan Fantle (fs), who was a friend and gifted writer, had a quiet grace about her that made people close to her feel special and very much loved. Cliff Cullen (fs) is remembered for his basketball corner shot as well as his greatest achievement - the ability to thrive and survive in the competitive Houston restaurant industry by staying true to himself and holding fast to his passion.

Obituaries for these four classmates are included in the “In Memory” section on page 64-67 of this magazine.

We miss all who have left us way too early!!

Tami

1966 Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh Houston, TX plkfc@hotmail.com Wonderful Classmates, As I write, we are entering the last week of January. Time is moving by fast these days, and I find myself feeling nostalgic and in need of re-connecting with long-lost but not forgotten friends. Most recently I had lunch with my two best friends from my 4th grade year at Oak Forest Elementary School in north Houston. We remembered our days together as 10-year-olds, Friday nights at Tradewinds Roller Rink, Saturdays at the Garden Oaks Theater Movie Matinee ($.50 with a Student Discount Card), burning pine needles in the street and buying 45 records for $.50 each. I hope each of you will choose to find someone from your long-ago. Tell them what they meant to you then. You’ll walk away awash in sentimentality and satisfaction. No words left unsaid — that’s my mantra for now.

1966 alumni Margaret Frederking Barton, John Diffey, Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh, Rod Crowl modeling their Kinkaid swag at The Homestead in Virginia

It’s wonderful to consistently hear from these friends. I hope others will let me know your news for future magazines.

From Bubba Koenig: “Linda and I had a great 2018. Our spring trip was to Hong Kong, Cambodia and Nepal.

The Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia was absolutely spectacular, and our flight from Katmandu out around Mt. Everest was stunning. We ended the year with a trip to Washington, DC (before the shutdown LOL). The high point was witnessing the changing of the guard at The Tomb of The Unknowns at Arlington, a sobering experience indeed which reminded us that those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country deserve our unconditional respect. We’re headed to Hawaii in the spring to see Pearl Harbor and later will take another Med cruise from Lisbon to Monte Carlo. The Keurig brewer still works, and the wine rack has some interesting reds in it, so anybody coming this way, we’d love to see you. Hope everyone has recovered from Harvey’s visit. Our best to all our classmates.”

From Jim Tang: “Elizabeth and I are expecting our first grandchild in April from our first son James Frederick Tang and daughter-in-law Thy Doan. It was revealed to us that it will be a granddaughter. Second son Dr. Jeff Tang ’05 married Dr. Mehwish Ismaily in June 2018. Third son Dr. John Tang ’07 (fs) is a thirdyear anesthesiology resident at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. I am in my 36th year of practicing plastic surgery at Cy Fair Plastic Surgery Center in northwest Houston.”

And Becky Witmer Lorino reports that they are still unpacking after their recent move to The Woodlands.

They miss their Houston friends!

Their townhouse on Nantucket near Westheimer is now on the market.

Any takers?

Margaret Frederking Barton and her husband Richard Shullaw have had

wonderful times with friends and family. They loved visiting with the Diffeys, Crowls and Cavanaghs in Hot Springs, VA last August. In November they flew to Hong Kong to see Margaret’s daughter, Travis and their newest grandson Lucas (8 months). After two weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia, they returned via Seattle to see Richard’s daughter and her family. In December, little Lucas brought his parents to visit them in Alexandria, VA. Margaret still works a few hours here and there, but she mostly walks, reads, visits museums, tutors and enjoys life!

I want to thank each of you who wrote to me after the announcement of the Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Service Award.

I was shocked, honored and humbled. Being your class reporter was a job that must have seemed logical since I taught at Kinkaid for so long. But, truly, I just like a party and couldn’t imagine NOT having reunions through all these years, beginning with our 10th at Birraporettis. I was very, very pregnant with my third child Will Fogle. You don’t remember, but I do – I was wearing a big red polka dot dress.

I felt and probably looked like an overstuffed strawberry! Organizing the reunions and writing about all of you was my way of staying connected. The awards ceremony will be over by the time this magazine arrives in your mailboxes. I consider this award a highlight of my 50+ year association with our wonderful alma mater.

Pat

1967 Steve Adger Houston, TX sadger@yahoo.com Carter Hood Cunningham’s daughter gave birth to second son Webster.

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out this year. Resembled our senior class photo.

Marvin Morse, along with his wife Nancy and their dog Rita, are doing well, living the country life. He tends to his rental homes in Belton and his Hill Country property.

Marty O’Dowd has reported in to us. I hope we’ll have some of his life updates for the next newsletter – it’s been a long time.

Alex Diffey ‘67

Bob Kent and Sally Dudley Kent ’70 (fs) are doing great, except for another poor fantasy football year for the big DAWGs, and spending much of their free time at their beautiful home in New Braunfels.

Laurye Rutten Tanner has moved to Albuquerque, NM and bought a larger home. She also convinced her son Joseph, his wife Katie and their little Emilie (4) to share it with her. Emilie is giving her Nannye lots of love and attention and Laurye admits she loves being a grandmother.

Buddy Trotter reports that he is glad 2018 is over and is hoping for a much better 2019. His wife Cheryl is still fighting bile duct cancer and they have spent over 21 weeks at MD Anderson in six different trips and she is currently there as I type.

They are most grateful for the joy that their beautiful daughter and two grandkids (6 and 8) bring them in these difficult times.

Steve Adger (me) has a new granddaughter – Marlowe Adger Manning.

He thinks it’s the end of the line, since both daughters seem to be in the ‘no mas’ stage at the moment.

Larry Knapp reports that his daughter Meredith ’05 and her husband Chris have been living with Janie and him for the past year while they work on getting their own ‘crib’. Second daughter Katie ’07 is an RN at Methodist, specializing in ER and Orthopedics. Their son Connor is working on his degree at Nichols State in Louisiana. Larry says he is still practicing law and Janie is “ok”.

Rosemary Jacobe Harrison is doing great. Her sister Jan’s son Jim is helping her run the ranch. She is happy that it’s a very good fit.

Stewart Simonds and wife Nancy are still living the life between Houston and Marble Falls.

David Dunwoody and his wife Kackie will be grandparents for the 12th time by the time you read this newsletter. All of their children and grandchildren are doing great.

What a Christmas card they sent

Jerry Turboff says that 2018 was quite an eventful year for his family. He and his wife recently celebrated their 46th anniversary, both children (Alex ’96 and Jordan ’98 (fs)) got married (wow) and to top off the year, Alex delivered their first grandchild. Alex lives in NY and Jordan in Denver – reason to increase their 2019 travel.

Ann Lents is happy to say that her daughter Lizzie ’03 and her husband Andrew Ziccardi have moved to Houston and had their first child – Patrick Max – in July 2018. Ann and David are besotted with the little one. Lizzie works for Bain Consulting and Andrew is at Fayez Sarofim. Son David ’01 (fs) works at Amazon, lives in Seattle and continues to love the outdoor lifestyle of the Pacific Northwest, with boating and camping in the summer and skiing in the winter. They feel blessed every day that their kids are happy and doing well. Ann reports that she and David are both healthy, just back from skiing over Christmas in Telluride, CO and looking forward to going to France and Russia this summer. She says life is good, in spite of the occasional shock of seeing her mother in the mirror.

Terry Davis Harrison has some sad news to report. Her sister Susan Davis Johnson ’65 passed away in 2018. Unfortunately, it was a very difficult death from non-smokers lung cancer. Terry says it wasn’t discovered until it had reached stage four, but Susan was a real ‘trooper’ through those difficult days. She wishes us all a blessed 2019.

Australia and New Zealand last fall and spent the month of December in Connecticut with their daughter Kathryn and her first child Hannah (8 months). She’s looking for some assistance in pulling off a 70th birthday celebration/reunion for our classmates. Email her!!

Peter Cawthon informs us that he is still alive. He and his wife of 45 years Teresa live in Oaxaca, Mexico, but travel frequently to the Mother Land (Texas) to see their 13 grandkids.

Suzy Neun (fs) is very busy building a beach home in Naples, FL, slowed a bit by last year’s hurricane. Says hello to everyone.

Alex Diffey and wife Sherylle are newlyweds at ages 69 and 66, and are having a great time in Charlotte, NC.

Larry Bernell checked in and tells us he’d love to celebrate his 70th (March 28th) with all of us in Rockport.

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Steve McCary let us know that he has been having some serious health issues, but the prognosis is good. He needs to stay close to home if any issues or complications arise. Good luck Steve.

Annie Owen Houston, TX anniedowen@me.com

Joey Tennant wanted us to know that he and Sari are doing very well and getting ready for their son’s wedding this spring. He may not be able to join us in Rockport, but he alerted us to the Whopping Crane Festival held there each spring, celebrating “the return of these magnificent creatures after their annual flight from the Arctic Circle to their historic breeding grounds on the Texas Gulf Coast.”

We dedicate our column to our friend Hal Trentham who passed away January 3rd in Midlothian, VA after a long battle with dementia.

His obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 66 of this magazine.

After telling us all about the wonderful trailer and travels that Linda Halbouty and her husband Lonnie were doing, there were big changes last year. In November, they sold the trailer and bought a house in Ft. Worth. Linda said that they continued to talk about seeing her kids and grandkids and decided that they could keep talking about it or just make it happen. Linda is looking forward to becoming a true full-fledged Texan again. They

Elizabeth Topper Nash San Marcos, TX enash@grandecom.net

He was an accomplished athlete and accepted a scholarship for the University of Virginia to play football upon graduation from Kinkaid.

After playing four years for UVA, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies. He then immersed himself in the music scene he loved so much at the popular Back Alley Disc record shop in The Fan District before moving to Midlothian.

From his high school yearbook, his buddies lovingly called him: “Tank” …. “Jackson” …. “Trent-Ham” ….

“Magic Twanger” …. and “Football God”.

Larry Cooper also reported some sad news. His sister Nancy Cooper ’65 passed away in January.

Jan Ginther has checked in and she is doing great – enjoying her “senior” years. Are we really there now?

Sounds so old…

Nancy Corley Wehrung is loving life and heavily involved in her community of Bulverde, TX. She leads a ladies investment partnership and a non-profit that hosts an annual community celebration that raises funds for local charities. She spends a great deal of time in Rockport, TX enjoying fishing and hanging out at the coast. She and her husband Scott enjoyed some lengthy travel in Hal Trentham ‘68

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are keeping the house in Colorado Springs for the time being, as summers seem to draw all Texans to the area. Linda is still doing her art classes as well as adding horseback riding -- her new next-door neighbor rides and she plans on tagging along. Golf has hit the back burner for a while. Lonnie continues his golf and loves all things yard related. They are looking forward to seeing everyone at our 70th year gathering.

Hal Trentham’s senior yearbook page

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Annie Owen shares her memories of Hal: “I remember Hal so well as though it were yesterday, walking down the hall in his khakis, books carefully placed underarm with a ready smile.

His father forged a strong work ethic. He was a fine athlete. I believe he was a wide receiver, a tall recipient for Skippy’s passes. I can still see his silhouette racing down the field. I can’t remember him ever getting in trouble even though we tried to entice him at the cabin with our naughty antics. None the less, he was a handsome, gentle man who we will all miss.”

He was truly our movie star, with his warm smile and good looks. We will remember him always.

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1969 Bonnie German Chandler Harvard, MA bchandler1@charter.net Greetings from your new class correspondent! I have a hard act to follow after Don Pickels, but I will do my best. Our class certainly had a lot of good entertainers; some of my favorite Kinkaid memories were the outrageous puns that seemed to occur spontaneously to Billy Liedtke in the middle of class. Do you still do that with your kids, Bill?

Rick Frachtman writes, “Our big news is that our daughter Lindsey has recently given birth to a baby boy, making her and husband Scott parents for the first time and Anne and me grandparents for the third time. Our oldest son Steven ’97 and his wife Jenny have a six-yearold daughter and a two-year-old son. Having grandchildren is wonderful. I only wish I had the energy and orthopedic makeup to keep up with them. Over the last several months, Anne and I have attended a few out-of-town weddings of sons of friends of ours. One was in New York City, where we had a chance to visit with Marianne Tatum for brunch and see her in a play. We enjoyed getting together and catching up.”

Rick says he has also enjoyed helping to plan the class reunion party this spring and reconnecting with old classmates.

Lynne Barlow Bentsen declares she has nothing to report since the last alumni news came out. “That’s the good news and the bad news.

Should that change, you will be the first to know!”

“All I can report,” says Jeff Cross, “is that I may be the last member of the

class of ’69 to have my first grandchild. Joffre James Cross IV was born here in Houston on September 4, 2018 and my wife and I are enjoying babysitting each Tuesday. She more than me since I am still working full time and get home about 5:30 – for some reason about the time he is ready to wail. Showing off his lung power for a proud grandfather!

Other than that – continuing to make plans for our 50th reunion dinner this spring – hope to see (and be recognized) by many at the event.”

Carole Smithwick-Kiebach writes, “Retirement continues to be very busy for us. We have remodeled the three bathrooms in our house in anticipation of selling it this spring and moving permanently to the farm near Maynard, TX. We had a wonderful Georgia Thanksgiving which included a stop to marvel at the Christmas lights in Bellingrath Gardens, Mobile, AL. We continue to split our grandparenting time between Atlanta and Omaha. We trek to Omaha every other month to see Andrew ’98 (fs), Major Jen (USAF), Michelle (5) and Ian (3). Now we appear to be adding Seattle to our travel plans as our younger son has decided to live there. We are busy planning a June wedding for Eric in Seattle.

We should buy stock in SWA! Along with “the committee,” I have been busy helping get ready for the 50th reunion. Hope to see y’all there, now, ya hear!” Carole also says that Jan Jacobe Houston wrote her to say she has been battling cancer. Carole urges class members to send Jan notes of encouragement.

Sam Wright has been in Durham, NC helping with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. He was there from mid-October to mid-January, and planned to go home to Waco on January 10. He says, “This is my fifth FEMA deployment in just two years.

My first was here in Durham two years ago, for Hurricane Matthew in 2016. FEMA has 6,000 reservists including seven lawyer reservists.

Twice per day (from the hotel in Durham to the office and from the office to the hotel), I pass by the stadium where the Durham Bulls play and I think of the movie Bull Durham with Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner.”

As for me (Bonnie German Chandler), my husband John and I are enjoying getting to know our new daughterin-law Crystal and granddaughter Aralynn, whom our son Cedric brought home with him when his six-year stint in the Navy as a nuclear engineer ended this past spring.

They have been here with us ever since, waiting for Cedric’s new job to start, and we feel lucky to have the opportunity to see so much of

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TCU/Fort Worth Alumni Gathering August 28 at Woodshed Smokehouse

Brian Phillips ‘87, Canaan Factor ‘96, Robbie Zimmerman ‘07

Kelly O’Donnell Karl ‘79, Bethany Boyd Factor ‘97, Grace Notestine ‘15, Ana Matamoros ‘15

Aralynn’s first year. She celebrated her first birthday on December 26, 2018, and I have to say she is truly at the most adorable stage right now – although, as the parent of two grownup children, I, of course, also know that there are other, equally adorable stages yet to come…and some less adorable ones, as well…

I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the reunion!

1970 Malcolm Waddell Houston, TX mwaddell@sba-skincare.com 2019 is well underway. Here’s what’s happening in this New Year among our classmates.

Let’s start with Selby Schwend. Selb writes, “Greetings classmates, from frigid Virginia where the Polar Vortex just handed us a dose of single digit

temperatures here at Smith Mountain Lake just west of the Blue Ridge.

Kathie and I are hunkered down for the winter, battling colds and passing around germs to our grandkids as they shuttle in and out for babysitting duties. We just added our seventh grandchild as youngest son Austen and wife Hana gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on August 3, 2018. Baby Ruey, named for Kathie’s mother, is a delight to all the family. Meanwhile our oldest grandchild Anthony Schwend, son of our oldest son Evan and his wife Bronwyn, has made the President’s List in his first semester at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. We are busting our buttons with these two bits of good news. Hope all my classmates are faring well. Stay warm and retire!”

And as you’d expect, there’s more grandchildren news. Carolyn and Ron Bernell welcomed their second grandchild Graham Louis Bernell in December 2018. Graham joins his sister Aubrey, dad (and fellow Kinkadian) Brent ’03 and mom Kait-

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lin. Brent practices law in Austin, so Ron and Carolyn are there on a regular basis.

Janet Lee Cohen checked in with grandkid and other news: “Rick and I had a good 2018. Our middle daughter Jill got married in the summer, and our youngest Rachel had a baby in May, bringing our grandchild count to four, with a fifth on the way this summer. They’re spread throughout the country, so although we don’t get to see them every week, we’re doing our darnedest to see them often. Travel is one of the things we can still manage, so we go visit them when our schedules allow. We also still have three of our four parents living (all in their 90’s or about to be), so we visit them too.

My mom is still in Houston and will turn 90 in a month. Rick’s parents are 94 and 95 and live in Florida. I had the immense pleasure of hosting Larry Jacobs for lunch one day when he was in New Hampshire with his daughter who has applied to a graduate program in Psychology at Antioch in Keene. We had a great time reminiscing about the good ole days. It was a hoot and a half to see him. Not many folks make

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it to Siberia in New Hampshire (it’s -11 degrees as I write this), so it’s especially fun when someone does.

You, Malcolm, have made the trek, as have Leslie Buchanan and a few others. Thanks for making the effort.

We are not easy to get to, and I’m grateful for any visitors!! Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful and Safe 2019! I’m looking forward to seeing you all at our 50th reunion in a year.”

More grandchild news this time from Tyler, TX. Bill Blomdahl shared his and Nancy’s latest news: “We had a grandson born to our youngest daughter Amanda Blomdahl Weathers in May 2018. That makes three grand babies in all – two girls and now a boy, and they named him after me so that is really special. We are enjoying our second home at Bluejack National outside of Montgomery, TX, Tiger Woods’ first golf course design, and it is awesome.

Nancy and I are headed to Italy for our anniversary in May and hopefully more places after that. Being empty nesters gives us the opportunity to go and go unless we have to keep the grand babies who live in Midland. I’m still working some at

Lake Ronel Oil Company. I passed my 40-year work anniversary last September. Everyone is doing well.

Greetings to all my classmates.”

Our Golden Triangle classmate Bonnie Robins Coburn had good news as well: “Son Keith was recently pinned as a ‘Senior’ Chief Petty Officer. He’s only about two years away from full retirement and starting a new career. Daughter Janette recently became the outside liaison and admissions supervisor for a large nursing home corporation in our area. Mickey’s two sons are also doing great; Cody is a company rep and inspector for Air Products for the Golden Triangle and Lake Charles, LA. Jody, Cody’s twin brother, has moved back to our area from Tennessee after retiring from the Air Force and is enjoying a new career in transportation/scheduling here.

Of course, Mickey and I are enjoying retirement and planning another cruise in April and one in May. We had a wonderful holiday season and got to see all of the children and all eight grandchildren.”

And one short, but not final note about the upcoming next generation. Betsy Mickley Sheets shares, “I am expecting

SMU College Alumni Gathering Hosted by the Dallas Alumni Chapter

August 29 at Bandito’s Tex Mex Cantina

Catherine Bradley O’Connell ‘05, Emily Arcidiacono ‘18, Colin Monteith ‘18, Laura Westmoreland DeVega ‘87, Ali Jamal ‘15, Brooks Elias ‘15, Ben Moldawer ‘15, Connor Sullivan ‘15, Joe Harberg ‘79, Katie Erikson ‘18, Anna Leon ‘18

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Janet Lee Cohen ‘70 and Larry Jacobs ‘70 at their lunch meeting in Keene, NH

my first grandchild in March! It’s very exciting and means I will probably be spending a lot more time in Houston where they now live! All is good at the pig farm too! Hope all is great with all our classmates!” Editor’s note: We all need to hear more about that pig farm!

Our often-in-North-Carolina classmate Sam Collins clearly has not retired as he writes: “Happy New Year, Class of ’70. Really nothing new here, but Work, Work, Work! Our son Jordan ’00 is still in San Francisco in renewable energy. Daughter Emily ’02 is still in Ohio with her husband, who is doing his last year as a resident there. We’ll start going back to Asheville in April. All is well with the Collins clan!”

Lorna “Sandy” Stebbins Fossand gets us up to date from her home in the Northwest. “My daughter Margaret successfully completed her certification to work as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

She expects to finish the last of her medical school pre-recs by the end of this year; then she’ll be ready to study for and take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and start applying to medical schools.

Her main area of interest all along has been trauma. I’m preparing to return to freelance editing work.

I am updating print and online resumes, planning a website, etc. If any of our classmates needs an experienced writer/editor, please let me know! The folk music gig has ended after a friendly eight-month run. Friends from the music community and several others showed up at the last gig to give me a lovely sendoff and to put in a good word for live music. I’ve had such fun doing gigs again that I’ll probably look for ways to continue them at least sporadically. I have a couple of replacement venues in mind and more to explore. In the meantime, I continue with great joy to play in the small folk band I’ve been part of for more than 16 years.”

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Tom Hale (fs) had a great traveling 2018 and more is planned this year.

He shares, “Sherry and I went to Egypt and cruised the Nile. Best trip ever!!! Our son Theodore finished his first semester at U of H Law School. Daughter Emily is in China teaching. Sherry has been playing great tennis and beating 5.0 players. We went to Cabo San Jose with Brownie Baker and wife Robin. Sherry and I are going to Italy in a few weeks for my birthday. Life is good with the Hales!”

Carol Eads Bailey (fs) was actually the first classmate I heard from, and she has made a real lifestyle change. Carol fills in the details: “Big change in my life – my husband and I moved to France!! We decided to move here because it is very centrally located. The history of the area we are in, which is called the Languedoc, is very interesting. We are close to the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees mountains are not far away, the food and wines are fabulous, the lifestyle is very slow, the region is very safe because it is comprised primarily of villages of ~1,200 people and from the many airports nearby we can fly everywhere in Europe and northern Africa in less than two hours. It’s really amazing. So, I don’t know how long we will be here but maybe for the next 5 – 10 years. I am still the managing partner of my law firm, but I don’t have any clients whom I represent myself. It’s amazing how easy it is to work remotely!”

Fellow Houstonian Phil Salvador has finally made the full career change he’s been telling us about for several issues, and he has family news. “Things are mostly fine at our place. I have retired myself from petroleum geology, and I am learning how to be a good kayak instructor. Christiane stays active with friends, book and card-playing groups, managing our house and staying in shape at the gym. New for her this year is work she does with the local chapter of a Texas-based women’s volunteer organization that raises money and does a wide variety of community outreach work for children, families, senior citizens and disabled people in our area. Son Lucas will get his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech this May and will continue for another year in order to get a MSc. This summer he will intern at a chemical company plant on the Houston Ship Channel. Daughter Carla continues with her criminal justice studies at Lone Star College (year two), focusing on forensic anthropology (use of skeletal analysis and techniques to solve criminal cases). She continues with her show riding.”

Katherine Thompson Jordan (fs) provided news on her gang, including grandkids and our fellow classmate (her brother) Erwin Thompson (fs). Katherine writes, “Our last grandbaby boy Liam (2) is more than keeping up with his brothers Luke (6) and Logan (4). Liam is so considerate; he even brings people their shoes when it sounds like we are going outside and pulls up a chair if someone needs it! The three boys keep us on our toes, and we love having them over to take walks, find fossils and jump on the trampoline. Our daughter Katie has an established child psych practice and last summer opened a joint office in New Braunfels with her husband Spencer Skelton, where he practices his colon/rectal surgery clinic. He also is practicing in San Antonio, TX. One of the funny things they like to call their business is ‘heads and tails,’ among several others I won’t mention! Our son Chris got married in September to a wonderful young lady Margarita from Venezuela living in Panama. She was an engineer in Venezuela and was lucky to get out of her country when she did to find work in Panama. Chris is still living and working as a design engineer in Los Angeles, CA. He is in the process of getting her over to the states, and it is looking like it will be longer than he thought with the immigration issue so hot right now. I am brushing up on my Spanish and starting a class soon to try to communicate with my new daughter-in-law a little better. Chris and Margarita are expecting a baby, but this news is so new that we don’t even have a due date yet! Roy and I have been busy selling our home in West University and are in the middle of acquiring some properties in this area for investments which will keep us busy. We are also are planning several trips: one in May back to England and another to western Canada later this year. Brother Erwin and his wife Margaret are still working but are thinking they will retire next year. They plan to build on their property in Landa Estates in New Braunfels, a few blocks from Katie and Spencer. They have two new grandbabies – Erwin III and wife Heather live in Houma, LA and they have little boy Erwin IV (almost 3) and new baby girl Olivia born last June. Erwin and Margaret’s other son Stephen and his wife Morgan live in The Woodlands and had baby boy Preston last June as well. So, the Thompsons are quickly multiplying!”

Our last update is from Austinite and fellow vegan Bob Frachtman. Bob shared, “The main news is the arrival last November of Gabriel Paley Frachtman, our first grandson. His

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KYPO Happy Hour with Episcopal and St. John’s September 12 at The Owl Bar

Julia Wood Harris ‘08, KYPO President Maddy Foxx Moffitt ‘06, Andrew Klein ‘08, Matthew Crandell ‘09

Charlie Fitzpatrick ‘11, Mary Rodman Crawford ‘11, William Reade ‘11, William Case ‘11, Blakely Hamblen (EHS ‘11)

Ramsay Bellinger ‘07, Byron Langford ‘07, Matthew Crandell ‘09, Jay Mullen ‘11

John Adkins ‘12, Will Wilde ‘12, Peter Kokernot ‘12

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DC Alumni Party

September 25 at Rosa Mexicano

Mary Grace Grieco ‘12, Walker Spier ‘12, Madeline Gould ‘12, Annie Cathriner ‘13, Marissa Smith ‘13

Director of Advancement Tom Moore, Julia Lovett ‘07 and husband Andrew Dolan

Sujit Raman ‘96, Kathryn Thompson Maxwell ‘93 and husband Thomas

Allison Maffitt ‘04, Grace Schirrmeister ‘09, Sarah Chase Webber ‘09 (fs)

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Stacy Sweet Patlovich ‘00 and husband Eric, Alex Curlet ‘98

father is our oldest son Julian, who is married to the best daughter-inlaw possible, Leah Paley. History repeats: Cousin Ron Bernell and I are the same age, and Ron had his first grandson in Austin (Graham), who is the same age as Gabriel. Julian has cofounded a growing ad tech company with a friend from Bangalore, India. Our other son Brandon works for Schlosser Development Company (developed the corporate headquarters for Whole Foods). Our daughter Adrienne is a speech pathologist in San Francisco. I’m still practicing gastroenterology in Austin and have no plans to retire. Sherrie has found yet another non-profit board to join - KLRU (Austin City Limits). We enjoyed visiting with Suzanne and Malcolm Waddell at Plant Stock (conference for whole plant vegans) in Asheville, NC last August. It was good to hear from Robin Singer Mowrer (fs) about her being a fellow vegan. I still cheat a bit, but always get ‘back on the wagon.’ I’m still ‘Facebook Free,’ so this is why my updates are lengthy.” I asked Bob about what he was up to at the new Dell Medical School in Austin.

He wrote back with, “I’m a clinical assistant professor. For the past three years I have helped interview pre-med students. I think that about 500 are interviewed in all. I also give several GI course lectures to the first-year students. I saw Irene Moody Riviere and husband Rob not too long ago. They are doing well, grandkids, etc.”

Seems to be a lot of those grand kids around here. I’ll wrap with some Waddell family news. Suzanne and I are still working although I’ve been trying to retire for a while. We closed our dermatology practice in Katy and consolidated back to our Galleria area office.

Business is going well and most importantly our former Director of Operations, Kelly, came back to join us and has taken a huge job off of me.

Daughter Julianne continues working for the Denver Zoo and our other daughter Amanda ’06 is in charge of promoting and carrying off the various shows for The Japan Society in NYC. We all went skiing in Park City, UT for the first time and had a fabulous, no-lift-line trip. Suzanne and I will ski again with Julianne at Breckinridge in April and have my joint-birthday celebration with Amanda in May. The whole family gathers in Hawaii on the big island in July and finally Suzanne and I head to Portugal in September. In between all that, I’ll be getting busy with some of our fellow classmates to plan what should be (with your help) a great 50-year reunion set for April 2020. I’ll be in touch. My goal is to try to contact all of you by fall, so you can be personally invited to

“Get back to where you once belonged” (to borrow a phrase). Until then stay in touch; reach out if you haven’t in a while. Contact me at mwaddell@waddellinvestments. com any time!

1971 Claudia Wilson Frost Houston, TX cfrost@orrick.com Happy New Year, everyone!!!

A few classmates have checked in.

Mark Perwien proudly announced the arrival of Elise Kara Perwien, who was born on January 14th. “She is our third grandchild.” Congratulations, Mark! Welcome, Elise!

Lisa Morris Simon, world traveler, reports that she was recently in Sydney, Australia for a tennis venture to see the Australian Open in Melbourne and also to see Sydney.

She told us that “I climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge, 430 ft high above water!!! If you jump off, it takes seven seconds to hit water.”

Darrell Bock, also a world traveler, reports that he is still doing his work at the Dallas Seminary. He was in Egypt in January as part of a delegation to attend the dedication of the largest Christian cathedral in the Middle East.

Cindi Wilson Proler Ray and Louisa Barnes both checked in. All is well.

I am still fervently practicing law and spending a large amount of time in Northern California, where a number of my cases are pending. It could be worse! When I am not on a plane or in another state or country, I am in Bellville, TX with Ford and Sparky enjoying the horses, the outdoors and the view.

1972 Lewis Luckenbach Sugar Land, TX lluckfam@aol.com Allan Tang Houston, TX allantang@earthlink.net Franci Williamson sends her best to the class of ’72 with the report that she and her husband have joyfully retired to central Texas after 27 years of working in health care in Houston. Franci reports just celebrating her milestone birthday in January and that she is busy with remodeling – so happy birthday to Franci in beautiful San Marcus, TX. Sounds like she is loving life.

John Falik decided to come out of retirement last year to buy a Houston

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Catherine Penn Williams ‘72 and husband Steve

business which he is now in the process of growing.

Both John and Franci are doing great and staying happily busy while coming out of retirement for at least part time gigs.

Rumors have it that our retired bank executive Chuck Cunningham got in a very productive hunt on the last day of duck season in January with promises of more updates and milestone birthday stuff from Crockett, TX later. Says he’s going great guns – I agreed.

Harriett Peckham Geick (fs) has been married 42 years and has one daughter and two grandchildren.

She is retired now and is volunteering with the VFW and DAR. Catherine Penn Williams moved to Tucson, AZ over 30 years ago and has worked as a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice for nearly that long.

She’s not sure she will ever retire!

Catherine met and married husband Steve Williams in 2009. They share a mutual interest in live music (anything from Billy Joe Shaver to John Cale and everything in between), good food and travel – all things they hope to enjoy for many years to come.

Catherine is grateful for the two years she spent at Kinkaid in 11th and 12th grades, most especially for the amazing teachers who encouraged, challenged and nurtured her intellectually.

As for me (Allan Tang), I am able to happily report that my mildly kinetic wife Cynthia successfully came out of marathon retirement to run her 27th marathon in Houston on January 20 in memorably windy and chilly conditions. Also, proudly mentioning that younger son Colin was nominated by the National Cancer Institute for a national research service award as a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical. My milestone birthday celebration will hopefully include some summer island hopping on bareboat Bavaria 46’ around off the coast of Croatia. Calling on sailors to join the flotilla.

And as for me (Lewis Luckenbach), On my trip to New York in December 2018, I stopped by the King Family Vineyards in Virginia. Ellen Carrington King and her husband own the award-winning vineyards. I missed seeing Ellen, but my son and I bought a case of wine and brought it home.

We always shop there when we are up that way. I visited with Jeff Baker; his family is doing well. I missed the Kinkaid Alumni Holiday Party since I was out of town in New York. Everyone please send me a blurb. Allan and I will get it in.

Hope to hear more from everyone in the next issue of the magazine...

1973 Pam Dilworth Kissiah Houston, TX pkissiah@gmail.com 2019 began with the memorial service for our dear friend and classmate Sandy Howard Turner, who passed away just before Christmas 2018. As I take over the class newsletter duties from Sandy, I would like to dedicate the first part of this report to Sandy’s memory in celebration of her many Falcon friendships and in gratitude for her years of service on behalf of our class. This

Sandy Howard Turner ‘73, Chuck Blanton ‘73, Missy Baker Jones ‘73

dedication is not meant to be a precedent-setting gesture, but taking on this newsletter duty has caused me to focus energy on remembering high school for the first time in a really long time. As Sandy wisely concluded in her last newsletter update, Summer ’18: “…and most of all, keep in touch with friends.”

Sandy Howard Turner was a genuine friend to those she knew well and to those she knew just a little bit. Many of us in the Class of ’73 credit Sandy with our outstanding turnout at our 40th reunion in 2013.

She reached out and made a personal invitation to everyone she could find. Every high school “faction of popularity” attended (many from both coasts and in between) and every person felt equally important – which was not always the way at parties during high school.

Sandy will be missed by all of us.

Many classmates visited with Sandy after her diagnosis of adenocarcinoma lung cancer last summer.

While Sandy did not want to bring attention to herself during her illness, she greatly appreciated the effort that so many folks made to visit. Sandy’s obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 66 of this magazine.

Susu Zimmerman Meyer: “I entered Kinkaid as a junior – a hard thing to do...and I specifically remember Sandy as one of my first and best friends for the two years there. She accepted me right off the bat, and because we played sports together, we ended up hanging out quite a bit.

Although we lost touch during college years, we reconnected through my cousin some years later. She was just the same – fun, outgoing, interested and interesting. Sandy never changed, and she was really happy in her own skin. We were all better off for having known her.”

Marion Perryman Liedtke: “I traveled to Houston to visit Sandy in early December 2018. Sandy felt good the day I was there and she seemed to really enjoy the camaraderie of the group that shared my visit: Chuck Blanton, Bart Brewer, Lisa Bernell Rostad and Judy Sud Morris. Sandy pulled out all of her old Kinkaid pictures and there were lots of laughs, memories and good times with old friends. She will be missed.”

Rene Bell: “When I was cleaning out my mother’s house, I came across my nursery school phone directory and was reminded that Sandy and I were classmates long before meeting again in middle school. A couple of years ago, Terry and I were invited to join Sandy and her family at the Bay. Her sons are both accomplished sailors. Sandy convinced me to bring a windsurfer to a party on

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her boat, Encore, and in her friendly, competitive way, she demonstrated that she hadn’t lost her long dormant skills. Sandy was always so full of life and generously giving of her time for others. Our son Charles ’13 recently graduated from Texas Tech (from which Sandy’s son William also graduated) with a degree in Business Management. He’s back in Houston, pursuing a job. Terry and I are proud of Charles and are glad to have him home for a short while.”

Bart Brewer: “A high point of an interesting 2018 for me was the pleasure and privilege of spending time with Sandy 17 days before she passed.

The humor, ease, alacrity, peace and joy she demonstrated in the hardest of circumstances has been a great encouragement to me as I try to live out my faith going forward.”

Janet Weingarten Battista: “During my December visit with Sandy, I arrived when she was sleeping. I held her hand and when she awoke, I asked her if she knew who I was since I was wearing a mask. She glanced at me for a second and then she said, “of course, you’re Janet, your eyes look just like your sister Ellen’s.” We always had checked in with each other on our birthdays, which were two days apart. One year she was on an extended sailing trip, and on my birthday I received a ship-to-shore phone call from her, the first and only such call in my life.

So, at her bedside, I asked Sandy if she remembered that long-ago call, and where she had been, and instantly she said “Venezuela.” I was amazed. The drugs were making her nauseated, but she really hated the taste of the anti-nausea medicine. In a demonstration of the Sandy we all know and love, she made the nurse taste the nasty medicine before she would take her dose. Then she said, ‘Told you it was yucky, and I didn’t want to be the only one taking it.’”

Chuck Blanton: “Sandy’s service was positive and upbeat, just as she planned. There was a large gathering of ’73 classmates including some out-of-towners who made the journey. Jonathan Craft, the music director at Kinkaid, played piano. Sandy would have been so very proud of her sons William and George who projected the strength and grace she also embodied. The family displayed a large bowl of Sandy’s sea glass collection, encouraging everyone to take a piece home in remembrance of Sandy.”

In her ever-organized and humorous way, Sandy let me know that she did not want to miss having her news update included in this Kinkaid Magazine issue: Sandy Howard Turner: “I get up every morning determined to both change

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NYC Alumni Party

September 26 at Dos Caminos

the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.” E. B. White I also received the following updates from our classmates: Marion Perryman Liedtke and Cadell Liedtke enjoy spending the summers in Colorado with lots of family coming to visit. The 15 grandkids are learning to fly fish. Outlawing screen time has helped with their love and appreciation for the great outdoors.

Katherine Howe ‘95, David Curtis ‘91, Bob Hay ‘96, Kelli Roosth Cooney ‘96, Whitney Weems Mogavero ‘96

Liz Battelstein Weiman: “I have just published my newest book: 100+ iPhone/ iPad Tricks You can Do Right Now! Explore the big changes that occurred after the iOS 12 software update and all the cool stuff your devices can do that you probably don’t know!”

What began as the Tom Bellows Coney Island lunch, has continued in Tom’s memory at Beck’s Prime on Augusta. These days, the gathering is usually comprised of Scott Jones, Mark Steiner, Fred Meyer, Rob Bradley, Neal Wade, Bob Franklin and Chris Jones, but it’s not meant to be an exclusive group. All are welcome! Chris Jones kindly sent me updates from a recent gathering:

Marshall Shaffer ‘11, Evan Henke ‘10, Virginia Albert ‘10 (fs), Thomas Deskin ‘10, Caroline Hafner ‘10, Cameron Gibbs ‘09, Skylar Dabbar ‘10, Anabelle Reade ‘12, Isabel Ross ‘11

Rob Bradley – Rob recently published his eighth book: Enron Ascending: The Forgotten Years 1984-1996. Rob’s publisher recently announced that the book will be translated into Chinese. Rob humbly admits that the book is hard enough to read in English.

Mark Steiner – Mark is putting the finishing touches on his second book on Abraham Lincoln. As Chris recalls, this book covers his early years in politics and addresses the attitudes of the day around immigrants and their roles in the Midwest…mid-1850’s.

Laura Rathmell ‘13, Paul Langford ‘13, Tara Nelson ‘13

Diana Pardue ‘69, AnnaCatherine Wilson ‘12, Marianne Tatum ‘69

Bob Franklin – Bob took Community Bank of Texas public in 2018, and he is now enjoying life in a public company, with all of those pesky shareholders demanding uninterrupted EPS growth from quarter to quarter.

He and Nan sold their house and moved into a high-rise apartment to test out condo living before purchasing. He loves it; Nan not so much… the house search has begun!

Fred Meyer – The big news here is Fred’s claim that Susu is not beating him as regularly on the golf course as she used to!

Kate Fullenweider ‘13, Alexandra Cokinos ‘13, Carroll Ison ‘13, Victoria Pappas Bludorn ‘07

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Neal Wade – Neal was late, something about a doctor’s appointment. Neal and wife Marion have just moved back into a new house, which is on the same lot where they have lived for 30 years. Most

people downsize at our age…Neal upsized!

Scott Jones took one for the team and stayed in the office to work on a deal for Haddington (Scott’s portfolio company, not Chris’).

Chris Jones – The big news was his hole-in-one on #10 at Lakeside last year. The better news was that he and Bob Orkin ’72 were the first group off that day, so there was no one in the Men’s Grill to buy drinks!

The bad news was that he was not in the hole-in-one club and left $1,900 on the table!

Cline Young: “My news is easy…I retired effective February 28. I still enjoy the Austin life and I’m looking forward to the other side…and not checking email every 30 seconds!”

Jane Staub Towler: **“I am still working as the most requested and experienced labor and delivery nurse in the DC area. Although I’m not a wife at the moment, I’m gorgeous, sexy and single. My home is an oasis and an exciting place to be, especially at meal time around my lovely dinner table – with great food, great friends and an assortment of other characters that we all may or may not know. My cooking and gardening skills have exponentially increased with age. I still practice yoga and have raised two, happy, healthy, well-adjusted children that actually enjoy spending time with me. Life is great!” **Editorial liberties taken, with permission :) Onie Doggett Swanson: “Jim and I celebrated our 11th anniversary in January. We spent most of 2018 relaxing and taking a year off after Hurricane Harvey. Harvey literally took everything we had but each other, our lab puppy and backpacks with cell phones. Water crested at 73” on the main floor. Only the upstairs game room was not destroyed – where our full-size shuffleboard table, pinball machine, exercise equipment and Jim’s guitar collection resided.

Our good news in 2018 was finding a lease house where the shuffleboard table fit! We are here for two years!

And Jim and I are able to play golf almost every weekend together.”

Judy Sud Morris: “My daughter Rebecca got married in Sayulita, Mexico in December 2018. The ceremony took place in the ocean with the bride and groom sitting on surfboards surrounded by 30 of their friends also on surfboards, and as strange as it might sound, it was really quite beautiful and romantic.” (*Judi sent me a photo of her doing the floss dance on the beach which wasn’t part of her “news,” but I was impressed!)

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1976 Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa Houston, TX hbujosa@att.net

Liz Battelstein Weiman ‘73, Caroline Jogerst Sabin ‘73, Rene Bell ‘73, Pam Dilworth Kissiah ‘73, Lisa Bernell Rostad ‘73 at the Alumni Holiday Party in 2018

Morgan de Marigny: “I am enjoying life!

Latest headcount: three grandchildren (ages 2,5,7), four children, two ex-wives and a wonderful wife.”

As for me (Pam Dilworth Kissiah), Moving back to Houston after 30+ years has been a different experience than I expected, but sometimes it feels as if I never left. Taking on the class news job has a silver lining – I now have contact info and a good excuse to reach out to classmates who are more “private”! Even though I may not have permission to print their news, I have truly loved having a chance to talk to a few friends from long ago and far away.

Having spent my married life moving from Houston to some pretty desirable spots like Austin, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, I can honestly say, there is no place like home. Living in Houston frequently brings me face to face with my youth. Recently, while enjoying an exhibit at a local gallery, beautiful Missy Baker Jones (who looks virtually the same as she did in high school) came up to me and said, “Hi Dilly” as if I had just seen her yesterday.

Such a treat and I look forward to a longer catch up with Missy soon… and, then a few weeks later, I was having lunch with Lisa Bernell Rostad (who also recently moved back to Houston to be closer to her mom) and we decided to drop by Meier Gallery to see the pre-opening of Susu Zimmerman Meyer’s show.

I didn’t even know Susu was an artist! That’s how out of the loop I have been. Susu’s works are mostly Texas landscapes and rivers, and her paintings completely drew me in. What a joy to see! Hoping to see some familiar faces, I attended the Kinkaid Alumni Holiday Party in December 2018 and found Caroline Jogerst Sabin, Liz Jacobs Labanowski, Liz Battlestein Weiman, Rene Bell, and Lisa Bernell Rostad looking fine! Sometime later, on one of my many necessity shopping stops at Bering’s Hardware, I was thrilled to

run into Jill Goodall Mussman working in the fine stationary department. I learned that Jill is my Briargrove neighbor, and when she isn’t at Bering’s, she can be found tutoring students and spending time with her daughter’s family here in Houston.

The most significant downside for me in leaving New York is that we are now living much further from our kids. Our son Clark is still working in Manhattan in consulting and our daughter Annie is still making her way as a music producer and DJ in Berlin. We visited her last November for her birthday, and afterwards toured the German Christmas markets by car, stopping in most of the small towns between Berlin and Munich. As I boarded my IAH flight, I was asked, “Hey, aren’t you Pam Dilworth? I recognize your profile!”

Haha. It was Donna Coles! It was so nice to see her traveling back to Houston with her daughter. She recently retired from Coopers & Lybrand and is settling outside Austin in the Hill Country. And finally, I feel lucky to have gotten back to Houston in time to reconnect with Sandy Howard Turner. I had completely lost touch with Sandy after high school, and when I started spending more time here about five years ago, we had some nice catch-ups. I am grateful for that time. Echoing Susu, we are all better off having known her. RIP, friend.

Sally Green Griffin writes that she has enjoyed traveling on cruises to Bali, Komodo Island and around Australia. Sally played with monkeys in a temple in Bali, held a koala bear and flew over Whitsunday Island and the Great Barrier Reef in a helicopter. Next, she flew over Heart Reef (shaped like a heart) and landed on a private island for a dip in the ocean.

Then she had a layover in Beijing and made a quick visit over to the Great Wall of China. Sally planned a ladies weekend in the Woodlands with Kari Cole Duncan, Vita Thompson Avanesian and Vita’s sister Katherine Thompson Jordan ’70 (fs). Elegant dinners, sumptuous Sunday Brunch and lots of laughter and reminiscing! World Traveler Sally went on a spring Scandinavian cruise visiting Norwegian fjords, Copenhagen and ending up in St. Petersburg.

Meredith Parsons Grisebaum shared some delightful news that she and husband Andy Grisebaum ’77

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are first time grandparents! Their daughter Brooke Grisebaum Powell ’07 and husband welcomed Peyton William Powell on October 18, 2018.

No photos yet, but he’s got to be a beautiful child!

Mark Lucy’s brother Scott Lucy ’78 reports that Mark is alive and well!

The two brothers still work together every day at Lucy & Associates, a manufacturer’s rep agency. Mark and Cathy still live in Houston, as do their grown, married daughters Jennifer and Danielle. Mark is having a ball playing with Jen’s child August (2) and can’t wait to meet Dani’s son, arriving this spring! He thinks grandkids are better than all the dogs he’s ever owned, all rolled into one. August has Mark wrapped around his little finger!

He loves hanging out at the beach in North Padre with friends and of course, the two brothers still go hunting together whenever they can. Squeezed into the midst of all that are the Baylor Bears, Texans and Astros! Life is good!

Carol Eckelmann Marshall says that 2018 was a year to remember! Her son Eric is engaged! Both daughters graduated in May in Seattle. Allison (MN) and Ruth (BA). On a much more somber note, Carol’s mother Barbara Burda Eckelmann passed away after a year-long battle with acute lung and heart events. Carol’s brothers Robert Eckelmann ’73 and Bryan Eckelmann ’79 (fs) and extended family and friends gathered in Eagle River, WI to scatter her ashes at Catfish Lake. Also present were Andrea Vail Reed and William Reed ’75. Mrs. Eckelmann had been a devoted Kinkaid mom, attending numerous basketball, softball and various other sports events for her three children. She participated in AFS, and who can forget the crepe booth at Field Day! Speaking of Andrea Vail Reed, Andrea has some wonderful news. She reports that she is the new Director

1974 Madeleine Topper Sheehy Houston, TX madtop05@gmail.com

1975 Judy Levin Houston, TX jude118@aol.com

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for Investment Administration at Texas Children’s Hospital. She helps manage the foundation that supports Texas Children’s Hospital. She is very excited to be a part of such an amazing organization! Hooray for Andrea!

As for me (Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa), my husband Carlos and I are enjoying sprucing up our historic cabin (translation: quite quirky and rustic) in Frisco, CO. Every time we head up to the mountains we do a bit more to make it comfortable and modern. All three kids enjoy going up. Our son Peter Bujosa ’07 has taken several groups of friends up to ski and the girls Haden and Isabel seem to like summers there better. It is our great escape!

Please feel free to email me with your news, big or small, any time, and I’ll do my best to get it in!

Homoiselle From the Advancement Office: We are saddened to report the passing of Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Lanier (fs).

Her obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 65 of this magazine.

1977 Jane Van De Mark Fort Worth, TX janevandemark@yahoo.com Hi friends! We are in year 42 since our Kinkaid graduation and still sharing and caring.

Ardath Stewart is in her 24th year teaching sixth graders at Burbank Middle School in Houston ISD. Ardath inspires and excites young minds with science lessons and experiences! Several of our classmates have fun new science knowledge from some of Ardath’s lessons. In February, Ardath’s students hosted the HISD Elementary Robotics Tournament which is part of the FIRST LEGO League. The kids had a blast serving as referees, score-keepers and judges!

Arnie Miller and his beautiful wife Jan have three sons. Marshall Miller just graduated from Texas Christian University. (Go Horned Frogs!) Marshall is looking to graduate school as the next step in his education. Sons Jeremy and Beau Rathjen who were both Rice University baseball players are building their careers in New York City and Houston respectively.

Susie Loucks, our flying traffic reporter until September 2018 is doing voice-over work and recently did pieces for Walmart and Chevron.

She’s also working part-time at Kendra Scott, and is really enjoying the retail business.

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Erik Heyne shares that he loved our 40th reunion where he decided we are “holding up nicely”! Erik wondered who a few people were, and with tongue in cheek, included himself! Erik and his wife Merry are empty-nesters and are still very busy with their careers. Erik continues his career as a Realtor at Martha Turner Sotheby’s (note: Erik did a great job as my realtor when I bought my Houston home in 2018 when I moved back to my fine hometown). Merry works at a Houston law firm. Daughter Lauren ’11 (fs) was at Kinkaid from Kindergarten through eighth grade and moved on to Memorial High School to graduate. She then graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Human Biology before being accepted to UTMB’s (Galveston) Physician Assistant School where she is doing very well in her studies. Younger daughter Katherine ’12 was a Kinkaid “Lifer” and went on to graduate from The University of Texas at Austin with TWO degrees – one in Computer Science and the second in Management Information Systems.

Katherine now lives in Dallas, TX where she is working for KPMG. Erik shares that he is grateful for Kinkaid teaching his daughters how to study well and be good students.

Bob Roberts’ three sons are also achievers in their endeavors. Eldest son Bobby lives in Denver, CO where he works for COORS. Middle son Ryan runs his own real estate business after playing wide receiver for UT under Coach Charlie Strong. Not to be outdone by his older siblings, youngest son John Luke, Class of 2020, is playing high school football in Austin, TX and is ranked 11th in the nation as a football deep snapper (in case you are wondering, as was I, that means he’s a football special teams’ member whose specialty is to snap the football over a long distance)!

Sadly, in January, we lost John Riley to cancer. He was a “Lifer” and we are greatly grieving the loss of John.

He touched all of us with his kind and gentle heart and special smile.

John was a gentleman. So much more can and has been said in tribute to the life of our lifelong friend, but words are not enough. His obituary is included in the “In Memory” section on page 67 of this magazine.

1978 Sarah Deal Frankenfeld Austin, TX sarahf422@me.com Brian Van De Mark reports that he was sorry he missed our 40th class reunion last spring. This past Septem-

ber, Brian published his fifth book, Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam (HarperCollins, 2018). The book is widely available in bookstores and online. Drop him a note if you have had the chance to read it. He would enjoy hearing the reactions of classmates. Brian can be contacted at brian.vandemark@gmail.com.

Mike Littman’s oldest son Ryan is getting married in September. A Littman family first!

Heather Fichter Cassidy and husband John just had their third grandchild – a boy – born this past July. Also, their youngest child Michael has graduated from Ole Miss so they are DONE with the college thing!

That makes three Ole Miss grads and one Auburn grad in the past eight years!! Whew!

Congratulations to Marshall Merrifield for recceiving Kinkaid’s 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award. The awards ceremony was held at Kinkaid on March 29th. We are proud of you Marshall!!

To close, we want to make sure that we take the time to think of those classmates that have passed away and to let their families know that we are thinking of them. If you are a parent or sibling or child of one of these classmates, know we still hold them in a special place and that they remain a part of the Class of ’78. We keep the following in our hearts: Lauri Butler, Jim Dilworth, Ronnie Johnson, Randy Kaufhold (fs), Robert Koelsch, Katharine Schweppe and Christopher Webber (fs). If I have left anyone off, please forgive me and know that they are in our thoughts as well.

Randy and Robert’s obituaries are included in the “In Memory” section on page 64-65 of this magazine.

Life is short so give it all you got!!

Until next time!

1979 Steven Arnold Houston, TX sda@3lmc.com Evans Attwell Houston, TX eattwell@gmail.com Alice Berry Houston, TX missformicadinette@yahoo.com

1980 Need Volunteer From the Advancement Office: Joe Jaworski (fs) is entering his 27th year of law practice. He is mediating full

Joe Jaworski ‘80 (fs) and son Lee in DC

time, traveling the 50 states resolving military contractor personal injury claims arising from the War on Terror. This past fall, he and wife Rebecca moved their son Lee into his freshman dorm at UC Santa Barbara where he joined the Gaucho student body as a Communications major, class of 2022. Their daughter Sasha, is an eighth grader at Galveston’s Trinity Episcopal School. They continue to enjoy living in Galveston where life is still sweet.

1981 John McReynolds Houston, TX john.mcreynolds@defectconsultants.com Unfortunately, as a construction defect consultant and expert witness in a post Harvey world, business is booming and I am rarely able to leave the Bat Cave. However, I have been seeing fellow ’81ers pop up in the news or in social media.

Tom Biggs was recently spotted hiking around in Iceland.

James Foster was recently at Canyon Lake and the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch.

Adam Battelstein continues to wow crowds with his dance troop, Catapult Entertainment.

Scott Sturges actually officiated a wedding.

From the Advancement Office: We are saddened to report Scott passed away in March. His obituary will be included in the Summer edition.

Amy Ragan is still keeping people fed through her work at the Houston Food Bank. She recently received a prestigious honor in Houston for her fundraising leadership. See page 21 to read more.

On a sad note, Frank Foster (fs) passed away in April of 2018.

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As for Karen and I (John McReynolds), we still have three daughters in the house (ages 17, 18, 19), so never a dull moment!

1982 Maria Semander Crawford Redondo Beach, CA msemander@yahoo.com Hello Fellow Falcons! How is everyone doing? I have found that my 50s are a combination of good times and lots of laughs, followed by fatigue and lots of doctor’s appointments!

However, I have managed to stay active and continue to enjoy choreographing for high school cheer/ dance teams, snow skiing with my family and biking and hiking during the summers. My oldest son Daniels is an avid surfer and snowboarder and can pretty much school my husband and me on any slope now.

He is a senior in high school, engaging in plenty of senior antics.

You know the saying…“the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Our son Zane (10) enjoys skiing, boogie boarding and gymnastics. Fred, my hubby of 19 years, continues to practice law, hang with our boys and keep me happy. You know that saying…“happy wife, happy life.”

In case you’re wondering what some other fellow falcons are up to, here is the 1982 SCOOP OF THE DAY! Helena Papadopoulos Johnson gets the award for sending in the most updates. THANK YOU, HELENA for always responding to my emails before I start begging! Helena’s daughter just completed her first semester at Davidson College in North Carolina and her son is in sixth grade at The Joy School. She is happy to report that so far 2019 has been uneventful (but that was just on January 20) and she likes it that way. Eveta Weingarten Freeman and Helena still hang out regularly, which is awesome since they were such good friends at Kinkaid. After

all, there’s another good saying, “there’s something about childhood friends you can’t replace.” Helena also reported that she saw David Mumford recently. I haven’t heard from David in a while so it’s good to know he’s doing well.

James “Jimmy” Michaels emailed to say that he loves reading this column to see what people are up to in their senior years. At first I thought he was talking about our grandparents, and then I realized he was talking about us! I still can’t get used to being a “senior” – although I will admit I asked if I qualified for a senior discount at the movies last week lol. Jimmy reported that he was lucky enough to spend the week of Thanksgiving in Barcelona visiting his daughter who is working there this year. He’s even luckier that she has a paying job that is covering all her expenses! Jimmy is still enjoying his physician practice in Tyler, TX and has recently partnered with Baylor Scott and White. Although still enjoying active parenting, in another 18 months he and his wife will officially become empty nesters and join the club of FREEDOM…but who’s counting right?

Mike Curran still resides in San Diego, CA and I have resolved to see him this year since I travel that way frequently. He has promised to treat me to some yogurt at his Cup-ofYo store that his wife Kristin runs.

Mike’s daughter Grace was married in September 2018 and works as a petroleum engineer (14 days on/six days off) on an oil rig in the panhandle. Michael Jr. is married and with two sons – Axel and Judah. Mike and Kristin love having them come to their house once a week while his daughter-in-law Megan goes to work as a nurse. I’m sure Mike is the most fun grandpa around!! Mike’s son Liam is in Vietnam working in a hospital and will graduate from San Diego State in May with hopes to achieve a doctorate in physical therapy. And last but not least, his youngest Henry is a freshman

in high school. Mike still works for Young Life and also runs a $25 million capital campaign for Woodleaf (a 50-year-old YL camp in No Cal).

Mike also ran his second half Ironman in January which to me, is quite impressive considering I get winded walking my dog up and down the hills in my neighborhood. And from Facebook pics, I know Mike hits the slopes quite often and still looks darn good doing it.

Marilyn Taylor Phillips and Bruce Phillips are enjoying being new (well somewhat new) grandparents to their one-year-old grandson, and entertained him at their house for Christmas. As Marilyn reported, “It was the BEST!” Marilyn and Bruce are about to have their 30th wedding anniversary and are going to Japan and Singapore to celebrate, so we will get to hear ALL about it in the next column! Happy Anniversary to the absolute most awesome ’82 Falcon couple ever!

Nelson Murray (fs) surprised me with his first email update (hope it’s not his last!)…and he had some words of wisdom to give our class – “Get your shingles vaccination.” Unfortunately, Nelson didn’t get his and rang in the New Year with a fun case of the shingles. I actually had them about 10 years ago, and I know it is NOT FUN. Hopefully Nelson will have a healthy and happy 2019 anyway.

Through the grapevine...I heard that Kristin Terhune Sjoberg is moving back to Houston and all her fellow Falcons are happy to have her “home”!

Welcome back Kristin.

And finally, I have some sad news but I wanted to give tribute to a wonderful mom we lost this year.

Michelle Rogers Rogers’ mother Margaret passed away in September 2018. She was one of a kind and will always be remembered for her bigger-than-life attitude, her positive smile and her dancing diva talents, which live on in Michelle and all of her friends!!! Mrs. Rogers will be missed but never forgotten.

Which reminds me of another great saying that I will end this column with…“Don’t spend life longing for the future and don’t spend life dwelling on the past. Life is short, enjoy it while it’s yours.”

Until next time…xo

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1984 Jackie Fair Houston, TX jfair36900@aol.com

1985 Carolyn Lasater Hodges Dripping Springs, TX mkcarolynhodges@gmail.com

1986 Julie Templin Berman Houston, TX julie@thelimogeslady.com Sergio Amelio has been back in the United States for two years! He and his wife Elizabeth Dean Amelio ’92 are super happy and proud of their three children. A freshman, seventh grader and fifth grader with three schedules in three different schools keeps them busy! Sergio is launching a couple of businesses in the co-working industry and in the pet care industry! He says it is too early to tell all the details, but he is very excited about the possibilities!

This past summer Shannon and Christopher Beeley moved to Durham, NC. Christopher is Professor of Theology and Director of the Anglican seminary program at Duke Divinity School, and Shannon works as a nurse practitioner in the Duke Rheumatology Clinic. Go Blue Devils! Their son Corin is a sophomore in Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut; daughter Camilla is a freshman pre-med student at Washington and Lee University; and son Reed is working in the Durham area and making music.

After 16 years and three kids, Helen Thompson Burt has paid her last Kinkaid tuition! Helen’s youngest child Raybourne ’19 is graduating this year from Kinkaid and heading to TCU! The Burts are very excited! Their oldest child Prentiss ’15 is graduating from TCU this May and their daughter Mary Helen ’17 is a sophomore at the University of Miami. Helen reports that fellow classmates Park Shaper, Lee Jacobe and Chris Cone are also doing their last lap with their last child at Kinkaid. “We are all entering the empty nest. I am not sure how that happened so fast!”

Over the summer, I joined Heather Ledbetter Kearney (fs) at her beautiful mountain home in Crested Butte, CO. She reminded me of a Kinkaid sighting we had during my visit. We were at lunch and we realized that sitting at the table next to us was

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English Teacher Tom Peden. We acted like giggly school girls! We might be 50 years old, but we yelled out “Mr. Peden!” We were so excited to see our middle school teacher on the mountain! After some remembrances, we remembered he was on vacation and let him enjoy the rest of his meal!

Steven Livitz and wife Stephanie are empty nesters in Austin. Their oldest daughter Ashley is in graduate school at New York University. Their youngest Lindsey is a junior at the University of Alabama. Steven just moved to a new estate planning and wealth management firm.

Joseph McReynolds (fs) is a real estate investor and part time political consultant. He lives in Houston in the Memorial area and spends time in Grand Cayman. His email is joseph@texas.net. Joseph encourages everyone to check out Chris Gillett at www.liketherazor.com.

“After a career as a successful attorney, Chris turned in his bar card to become one of our nation’s premiere headshot photographers. In addition to actors, models, business leaders and politicians, he has photographed a number of his fellow Kinkaid classmates, including Adam Gould, Stephen Rogers (fs) and me.”

Allison Hill Mitschke reports that her oldest child Jeremy is a sophomore at Baylor. Son Jackson ’19 is a senior at Kinkaid and will be a freshman at Baylor in the fall. Daughter Gracie ’22 is enjoying her freshman year at Kinkaid. Her youngest child Janie is in third grade at St. Francis. Allison enjoyed participating in Alumni Interim Term Night in January and hearing the history of Kinkaid presentation from retired History Teacher Mr. John Germann!

Michael Pruitt is doing well. I am at liberty to say that he and Brett Lum met up recently and that “Lum and Pruitt are up to something, but it is classified!”

Mary-Lou Smulders received an Engineering degree from Cornell University. After earning her MBA, she moved to the Silicon Valley for a high-tech career. She has four kids, all teenage girls! Mary-Lou “retired” to Park City, UT to ski. She also ran a marathon and completed an MS 166 ride (“It was supposed to be 150 miles, but I think the organizers wanted a pretty route for us!”)

Mary-Lou was lured back into an opportunity that she couldn’t resist, so she is working as CMO of a hightech, blockchain, financial technology start-up.

Scott Vanya continues to live in Austin, TX, help out where he can, share his music and poetry and jointly raise his son (17) and daughter (13).

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Mollie Anderson Whisler writes, “Howdy from the Santa Cruz Mountains!” She reports they are finally receiving rain in Northern California! Although Mollie feels too young to have a child in graduate school, her daughter is graduating in May and currently interviewing for Graduate Assistant placements!

Track season is starting for Mollie’s son. Last year he qualified for Nationals in the Junior Olympics with the Javelin! Mollie and Scott are ending their self-imposed year off from theater with five productions in the works. As two are Mamma Mia! productions, Mollie is predicting a year of disco in her house!

Doug Whitman sent his update from Nashville, TN, where he has lived for almost 21 years! Doug has been working at the same healthcare real estate company for 20 years! In the past year, he has assumed a couple of new roles at the company. Doug’s oldest child Meredith graduated from high school last year and is a freshman at Colby College in Waterville, ME. His younger child Reed is in eighth grade. Doug’s wife is a physician at Vanderbilt’s student health center; she has quite a few students/patients from the Houston area. The Whitmans went on a family safari to Kenya and Tanzania last summer to celebrate their daughter’s graduation and Doug and his wife turning 50! They had a wonderful trip to celebrate these important milestones! The Whitmans are cheering for the Astros to reclaim the World Series trophy this year! Doug had an Astros sighting in Nashville! He reports he saw Astros’ Tony Kemp while grabbing lunch recently. “You Houstonians probably have plenty of Astros sightings, but we don’t get many here in Nashville.

Tony grew up here in Nashville and played baseball at Vanderbilt.”

A short update on me (Julie Templin Berman (fs)): David and I have been married almost 27 years. My business The Limoges Lady celebrated its 20th year! My son Matthew ’25 is in sixth grade at Kinkaid. As I write this, baseball season is starting, and he will be playing his last year at Post Oak Little League. Time is moving too quickly! My daughter Katherine ’18 graduated from Kinkaid last May and is a freshman at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where she plays field hockey and has joined a sorority.

When we were in Lexington for Parents Weekend, we ran into Shannon and Christopher Beeley with their daughter Camilla, also a freshman at Washington and Lee! Thanks for sending updates! Please continue to send emails and be sure to keep the Advancement Office up

to date when you move or change email addresses! Brace yourself…I see a 35-year reunion in the not too distant future (2021)! Take care!

1987 Doug Rosenzweig Houston, TX dougrosez@aol.com Here is the latest from some of our classmates as we approach (or have become) 50!

Jed Brown is still developing real estate with his brothers Doak ’92 and Wil ’95 and their father. His son Walker will be graduating from Stanford in June. He and Jed took an early graduation trip to Alaska last summer – lots of fun in the Brooks Range. Jed and his wife will sure miss their trips to Palo Alto, CA. Finally, he got his pilot’s license a couple years ago and is enjoying time in the sky.

Tom Chmielewski and his family – wife Eliza and children William (10) and Nina (8) – moved last August from Austin to London. They are enjoying the experience living abroad with the family. Tom took a job with a San Francisco technology company called New Relic and is enjoying working in central London. In December 2018, Tom’s family connected with Josh Adams and family who were vacationing in London. Tom hopes to see other classmates who might be passing through – let him know if you are traveling to London.

Claire Chung has been living in Shanghai for the past five years and is in the Internet/fashion business running the Yoox Net-A-Porter Group in China as their General Manager. 2018 was a very exciting year as they delisted from the Milan stock exchange and were acquired by the Richemont Group. China is the world’s largest consumer market for luxury and e-commerce so it’s an extremely fast paced business. Her daughter Isabel entered

high school this year and attends the American School of Shanghai.

As her husband is Portuguese, they spend time between Portugal and Asia and less time going back to the States now but she hopes to bring him to Houston and Texas one day soon for a visit! There are so many people visiting and moving to Portugal so anyone coming out that way for a visit, let them know! (They are in Porto and Douro Valley – amazing Port wine region.)

Richard Cross is a psychiatrist, joined UC Davis School of Medicine almost 10 years ago, lives in Davis, CA and just had his 26th wedding anniversary. He has two kids – son Benjamin is a sophomore at USC and daughter Megan is a sophomore in high school at Davis High School.

Nicole Domercq Zarr says not much has changed over here. Her daughter is a freshman at TCU where she pledged Tri Delt, and her son is a junior at Kinkaid. She hit the big 50 in December 2018 and is still running her interior design company.

Shannon Dyer Dowell says there’s not much to report other than we all are hitting the Five-O. Her son Patrick graduates from UT in May. Her daughter Drew is a sophomore at TCU. Chad Gnam reports that life just keeps moving along in Jackson, MS. His daughter Ashley is in her first year of Medical School. His son Jack took a scholarship to play golf at Ole Miss and played in several tournaments this past fall. Chad hopes to make the next reunion. He sure misses good Tex-Mex and real BarB-Q. Tracie Hall is in Baltimore, MD exploring the mid-Atlantic, East Coast and the DC area, and she would like to connect with other Falcons.

Amy Knight Miller – still 49! She lives in San Antonio with her husband and two kids. Daughter Avery is a sophomore at UT and son John is a junior at Alamo Heights HS. Amy serves at the Chief Business Officer for an oil

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and gas pipeline company and her husband De is a partner at Marsh Wortham.

Diana “Dee Dee” Munson Kayser celebrated her 15th wedding anniversary and her 40th (she’s sticking with this age) in Italy last summer. Other than that, she will have a teenager in the house soon.

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Alan Owens recently landed a literary agent for his debut novel, which was submitted to several major publishers. As he waits to hear from them, he’s working on his next novel and teaching in the U.S. after living in Europe for nine years.

Elyse Spector Kalmans is busy with three teenage girls. Aerin ’18 graduated from Kinkaid in May 2018 and now is a freshman at University of Richmond. She is an admissions tour guide and on the honor council. Kendall ’19 will graduate from Kinkaid this May and will attend Emory University in the fall. Talia ’23 is an eighth grader at Kinkaid and just starred as Donkey in the Eighth Grade Musical Shrek.

Laura Westmoreland DeVega is still in Dallas with her husband Nelson and their two kids Lila (15) and David (12).

She sells residential real estate and that has, thankfully, kept her busy.

She has no idea how we are suddenly turning 50, since she feels like we are still seniors in high school, but she is glad to be here to celebrate! She has had the chance to catch up with several classmates over the past few months, and it always reminds her how lucky we are to still have the friendships we started so many years ago at Kinkaid. She hopes everyone in our class is well and that we can all get together again soon!

Leila Wheless says life in the NC mountains is busy but wonderful.

She is teaching, running and metaphorically waving goodbye to a high school senior, pretty much in that order. Her older son returned from a year in Spain and will now be flying the other direction for Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Because, why not? Meanwhile, her younger son, who is a ninth grader, has quietly advanced through online math courses until earning a spot in a real, live calculus class populated with seniors and taught by a live person. (Leila adds: “I know, I know – a child who is genetically related to me is a math whiz, you say? Apparently. I don’t understand it; I just accept it. My husband and I just stare in awe while he tries to explain derivatives. Why can’t he just analyze Shakespeare, like normal people?”) Anyone looking for a free vacation in the NC mountains is invited to stay with them if they can tolerate cats and math geniuses.

As for your class correspondent: Doug Rosenzweig and Jennifer Jones Rosenzweig live in Houston with their two boys Zachary (12) and Jacob (10). Zachary is a sixth grader obsessed with sports (particularly college basketball) and Jacob is in fifth grade, and quite similarly obsessed (mostly NFL and NBA). Doug is still an Executive Editor at O’Connor’s (now part of Thomson Reuters) but is considering other options, starting with entering one of the World Series of Poker events this summer for his 50th birthday. Jennifer is now the Assistant Director of Children & Camping at the JCC.

1988 John Semander Redondo Beach, CA cperiod@hotmail.com Just when you thought it was safe, huh?

That’s right, the school’s most inaccurate Class Updater is back, having duped the Alumni Office into honoring a short-term contract with no literary restrictions whatsoever, despite the legal department still reeling from all the libel lawsuits aimed in their direction since my early – (not forced, as most of you undoubtedly presumed) – retirement in 2013.

But the lawyers need not yet worry, as I won’t start reporting all those indisputable rumors masquerading as undeniable facts from the lives of my fellow ‘88-ers until I have more time to accurately make them up.

Truth is, I didn’t even bother sending out one of my annoying bulk emails digging for dirt this time around. So we’ll just let this first installment serve as a simple reminder of how long-winded (rather, long-writed) your old pal John Semander can be, now that he is steadily employed and happily married with 3 lovely children of his own.

Come on, people. That’s just my way of making sure you’re all still paying attention.

Until next time, you can all just sit back and be thankful that you’re not seeing another big glaring request for a sucker of a volunteer in what would have been a big empty space here. Yes, the request that every single one of you lazy ingrates ignored in the last magazine. Keith Houk, I know for a fact that you have more than enough spare time to do this instead of me. ~ John Semander

1989 Elizabeth Oxford Pagan Houston, TX elizabethpagan@me.com

Hi Class of ’89!

First of all, we have happy news: Jill Selber Handaly reports, “I got married in October 2018 to an amazing Seattle native. The good news is, we are all so happy. The bad news is, this means I’m probably in Seattle for life!” Congratulations to Jill!!

In honor of our 30th reunion this spring, I asked you to answer the following question: Who was your favorite/most influential teacher at Kinkaid? What did you like about him/her? What do you remember most about him/her?

Thank you for your answers – they were so good. Brought back lots of memories and quite a bit of laughs.

Enjoy!

Keith Gottlieb: “In terms of teachers, there are a lot that I felt were influential, but the one that sparked a lifelong interest in history was Dr. Haynes (Sam Haynes, our European History teacher). I was always impressed that he was getting his PhD in History while teaching us and that he seemed so much more like a college professor. His in-depth discussions about European history were some of the highlights of Kinkaid academics. Though I would end up working in science, I’ve had a lifelong interest in history, with my shelves at home filled to capacity with history books from Ancient Egypt to Greece and Rome through all the ages of Europe. Even in college, I took various history classes

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as electives, many way out of my comfort zone being a biology/chemistry major, but Dr. Haynes’ classes had made me want more.”

Laura Hyman Graber: “I have two teachers. My most influential teacher was Mr. Moss. He encouraged me to take risks in my creative writing. His influence helped me develop a love of writing! The other teacher who most influenced me was Ms. Cooney.

To this day I remember the way she taught us to take notes by folding our paper in half. She taught me lifelong skills in proper outlining and note taking. I have even taught this to my children!”

Jill Selber Handaly: “A favorite teacher is so hard to choose since we had such amazing teachers.

But, I think I’d have to say Ms. Cooney. Mainly because she taught me how to study. The things I learned from her were the foundations for all of my other school success.”

Joanna Hankamer: “Mrs. Westbrook will always be my favorite teacher. When I was in first grade, I got a concussion on the playground. On an auditorium Monday, wearing my good-but-slick-bottomed shoes, I slipped on the wet grass during a game of freeze tag, and my head got smashed between a tree and Corby Robertson’s shoulder (I don’t blame Corby – a fierce but fair and kind competitor in first grade). If I remember correctly, I had double vision for a few weeks and had to stay home from school for more than a month. When I returned, I was not able to move my eyes from sideto-side for several months until the swelling healed. Because of this, I fell behind in reading and my parents held me back a year in school.

I repeated first grade, and while I loved being the oldest kid in my younger sister’s first grade class, I missed being with my friends. So, after a couple of months of second grade with my sister’s class, I moved back up to join our class in third grade. Mrs. Westbrook worked with me for many months, tutoring me after school so that I could catch up academically with the rest of our class. She was patient, supportive, kind and fun. As an adult, if there is some fact that others seem to know but is new to me, I often joke that such facts must have been taught in second grade, which I skipped.”

Webb Jennings: “My favorite teacher at Kinkaid was Mrs. Beck. She was our seventh grade Spanish teacher. She was quick witted and managed to keep us in line. I remember we ordered a pizza to her class and someone in the class (who shall remain nameless) (Bobby) climbed out her window to pick up the piz-

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za. Needless to say, several were sent to the principal’s office…but we believed she secretly loved it.”

Grady Lee: “There were many, but I remember Ms. Miller in Physics a lot. Looking back at her classes, it seems like a magic trick how she never really lectured, but rather created a set up and then started asking questions. We would unfold the theories through our questions.

Kind of amazing, really. Plus, she had a loose but firm style of discipline which was needed when Mark Beeley, Corby Robertson and I were less than helpful.”

Lynn Rothermel Neligan: “My favorite teacher hands-down was the artist in residence Mr. Pat Foley. He was enormous fun. I remember Mr. Foley sitting there with a cigarette, swearing and making comments to the class that were way over my head.

And then there was that cat cruising around – total artsy freestyle.

One semester we did clay heads, and mine was quickly turning into a disaster. Mr. Foley came over, made two subtle tweaks to the eyebrows, and that completely transformed it. After graduation, the clay piece got relegated to a box where it sat packed until just last year – almost 30 years. I was absolutely shocked when I unpacked it and thought this is actually pretty smart looking.

So, I took it to my husband’s gallery and set it on the front desk as a joke. Well, in that setting, it looked extra important, and two people came in the same week and tried to buy it! Of course I said “it’s not for sale” and now it’s in our Boston apartment living in full appreciation on top of a French commode. Who knew 30 years later!!”

Elizabeth Oxford Pagan: “There were so many excellent teachers who touched our lives while we were at Kinkaid. My first teacher at Kinkaid was Mrs. Almond and I thought she was the most beautiful, kind person I had ever met! She gave us stickers in our notebook on Friday if we had had a good week. One week I got in trouble playing under a table in the library with Lacey Ligon and Jennifer Deal Rogers and I did not get my sticker. I was devastated. I never misbehaved in the library again! The teacher that had the most impact on my life as a student (and in my future actually) was Ms. Laigle. She was pretty serious and a little intimidating, but for some reason, she took me under her wing. She had me come in to tutorial a few times a week to go over our readings and she also helped me with my essays.

Once she read one of my essays in class as an example of “what to do” and I was so surprised and so proud. I had never had that happen

before! She helped me gain much needed confidence in my school work. To this day, I credit her for being a big part in my decision to become a teacher.”

Paul Romano: “David Veselka was probably my most influential teacher. He got me interested in literature. In particular, I remember reading To Kill a Mockingbird in his class and watching the movie as well. I think the book and movie were very influential in leading me to practice law.

I still watch the movie every time I see it on TV. It never gets old.”

Daphne Nizza Shaw: “So many incredible Kinkaid teachers influenced me so much, but since my son has just read The Inferno with his own English class, today I’m remembering the intellectual, theatrical and impassioned Mr. Don Thames. He made people stand on desks to act out the punishments of the rings of hell or waltz together to demonstrate the social significance of the act.

He made literature come alive. I remember when he, a pianist himself, brought music to the classroom and led us through the structure of literary comedy as it compared to that of a musical sonata. One day, he wrote the word PHENOMENON in huge letters across his three blackboards and held a funeral for the word. He said it was boringly broad and never an appropriate word choice for good writers seeking precision. He was amazing. I’m so grateful for the gift of his teaching.”

Stephen Strickland: “I would have to say I had two favorites – Mr. Thames and Mrs. Law. Mr. Thames had a unique style and personality that made junior English exciting and fun. He took the time to work with me, and make sure I reached my potential. Mrs. Law was very intimidating at first, but I took to her style.

She took an interest in me, and continued to challenge me each day.

It didn’t hurt that we got to watch Apocalypse Now and compare it to Heart of Darkness in class.”

Bronwyn Burke Tilton: “Ms. Cooney. She interviewed me for sixth grade placement and did not laugh when I told her 60 Minutes was my favorite tv show. And, of course, she taught me how to study.”

Walter Weathers: “Sam Haynes. I still remember his obsession with LBJ and all things around Texas independence. Somehow he tolerated me for two years (and I was pretty obnoxious). “Was” being the key word there.”

From the Advancement Office: Scot Johnson is actively looking for the next destination on his career path.

After an 18-year run as a bond portfolio manager and client portfolio

manager with AIM and Invesco (the two firms merged), he took an exit package in lieu of relocating.

Scot took some time to recharge, and then spent several years as an at-home dad to ease his wife’s transition into a long-sought second career in real estate. He is eager to get back into a professionally demanding role.

1990 Aimee Ford Byrd Phoenix, AZ aimeebyrd1@yahoo.com Class of 1990 is about due for a get together here soon as much has transpired in the 29 years since Falcondom. Folks seem to be in all different stages of life – some have kids in college and some still in diapers. Some starting new adventures, some looking to settle down a bit. Collectively, I find that there is a genuine concern as to how the all the other classmates are doing – which is quite refreshing and not surprising as Class of 1990 is a group of great people.

Matthew Holland: “I am living in Charlottesville, VA and work in private practice as an interventional pain management physician. My wife Eliza and I have two teenagers at home. I had dinner the other night with fellow Kinkaid alumni Ava Lena Waldman ’91 and Kyle Ezer ’92. I always enjoy running into Angie Carrington Murphy (fs) around town as well.”

Jennifer Pruitt Toomey: “Bill and I and our children moved to Fort Worth after 20 years in Atlanta, GA. We are so excited to be back in Texas!!!”

Cedric Spak: “Happy to say that all is well. Can’t believe we are almost 30 years out from high school! Shelby and I have three teenagers here in Dallas. John Paul is a senior at Cistercian and his brother is a sophomore. Eva our daughter is at Hockaday in the seventh grade. All three kids go to Poland every year and are learning the language as well as the culture there. 20 years of marriage has been the blink of an eye for us... but so much has obviously happened! Professionally I am part of a medical practice in DFW which specializes in clinical infectious diseases and transplant infections. We are actively growing and very busy. I am also active teaching students and residents at both medical schools in North Texas. Without sounding too corny, I thank Kinkaid for certain foundations and lessons which I still can lean on and remember. Lately, I think my warmest memories come from the junior year Interim Term as

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a new student. Going to Courts Laws and Liberties with Travis Huff and Stan Schaefer really was a highlight, in my Camaro naturally. Of course I have lost touch with everybody (sorry I don’t do Facebook) so please extend a warm hello to the others in the Class of ’90.”

Steven Maislos: “I had the birth of my daughter Juliette Morgan Maislos on July 6, 2018.”

Talley Hopson Gregg: “I’m still teaching at School for Little Children and subbing at Presbyterian School (PS). Shepherd and Parks are at PS – seventh and fourth grades! Jamie ’94 just started with a new radiology practice in May! Chris Colthart: “Our daughter Wren is toddling. I’m still teaching junior high history in LA and loving it. My band Which Wave just put out four songs. I saw Keith Gendel, Jarad Dickinson and Terence Cooper over the holidays and we chuckled. I’ve been working on my basketball skills.”

Christine Bain Williams: “All is well at the Williams home! Daughter Georgia ’18 is a freshman at UT Austin, and we still have two children at Kinkaid – Bain ’20 is a junior and Mary Blake ’22 is a freshman.

Michelle Martinez McKane: “Our oldest son Brice is at University of California San Diego studying Marine Sciences. Our youngest son is in kindergarten and our two girls are in 11th and eighth grade. Between work and kids, there’s never a dull moment. Wouldn’t trade it for the world!”

Sarah Wheless Murrin: “Philip and I are in Fort Worth. He is working in the Historic Stockyards and I’ve started painting and was part of a group art show of Women Artists March 20th at Pat Green’s Galley Winter Gallery. Philip Jr. is a freshman at UT Austin studying Business, and enjoys attending Longhorn Basketball games. Mary Elizabeth is a Junior at FWCD and is on the cheer squad. Carolina is in seventh grade and on the soccer team and in the show choir. My family and I got to see Aimme Ford Byrd and her family over Thanksgiving in Phoenix, AZ and loved it! In addition, we are thrilled that the Toomey family has moved to the Fort.”

Craig Glauser: “We’re still enjoying the Hill Country living in Boerne, TX and are trying to keep up with our two boys Beau (8) and Ben (3).

Mandy Smith Johnston: “Things are great in the Fort! We now have two freshmen! Louise is a freshman at TCU, and pledged Kappa in the fall!

Martha began high school this year, and is still at Trinity Valley. She was in the Sound of Music as “Louisa”

in January. Fred continues to travel some with his job, and I’m still teaching first grade at Tanglewood.

Life is good and busy!”

Eileen Baird Askew: “I still live in Seattle with my husband and twin daughters who are in middle school.

I’m keeping busy with my work in investor relations and most often am doing project work for Expedia. My girls now go to Camp Mystic, so I get down to Texas each summer.”

Palmer Letzerich: “I made it through 2018 with only one minor mishap involving a bike wreck and broken rib. Aynsley and I are spending a bit more time in Mexico City with work. While at home, the girls (10 and 12) have signed up to raise and train golden retriever puppies who move on to formal training to become assistance dogs for children and adults with disabilities.”

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Austin Alumni Fiesta November 8 at Z’Tejas Grill

Pierce Cohen ‘08, Lee Simon Cersosimo ‘08, Sarah Atnipp ‘08, Tracy Konig Bateman ‘08

As for me (Aimee Ford Byrd), Arizona continues to be the best place on earth to get daily Vitamin D – feeling grateful to have a healthy family that loves the outdoors and our two dogs Bowie and Merle Haggard. Living a teensy bit vicariously through my daughter Barlow (13) as she jams on her guitar! Cheers to all.

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Elizabeth Oxford Pagan ‘89, Will Withers ‘92, Matt Colangelo ‘90, Will Harper ‘99

Lane Alexander Houston, TX lanealexander@yahoo.com From the Advancement Office: Rusty Ross and his wife Julia welcomed baby girl Ruby on February 2nd.

They are living in California, where Rusty is an iCloud Software Engineer for Apple.

1992 Jennifer Wilson Brown Houston, TX jenniferwilsonbrown@yahoo.com

Carolyn Lasater Hodges ‘85, Teddy Terhune ‘84, Helen Stovall Gilbert ‘85, Johnny Sutton ‘79

Billy Forney Houston, TX billy@f4interests.com Amy Stuyck Watson Houston, TX amyswatson@hotmail.com

1993 Courtney Dreyer Beauchamp San Antonio, TX courtbeauch@gmail.com Wendie Seale Childress Houston, TX wchildress@yettercoleman.com Ashley Morgan Hanna Houston, TX ashleymhanna@gmail.com

Will Fullenweider ‘12, Kirby Gilbert ‘12, John Ormiston ‘12

Stuart and Marlene Genitempo Van Eman ‘56

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Alumni Cheer Event November 2 at SJS Pep rally

Alumni Cheerleaders – Isla McConn Jornayvaz ’02, Ashley Morgan Hanna ’93, Elizabeth Oxford Pagan ‘89, Christine Robertson Morenz ‘92, Merritt McReynolds Marinelli ’88, Sarah Jane Sengelmann Canion ‘99, Adriuna Howard ’11, Christina Fondren ’13, Head of Cheer JoAnna Semander Nicolaou ’84, Brooke Bagby O’Neil ‘02, Michel Miller Mullett ‘00, Jessica Jones Meyer ’00, Alexa Leach ‘09, Julia Wood Harris ’08

1994 Courtney Domercq Daily Houston, TX cdomercq@hotmail.com From the Advancement Office: Becca North ’94 (fs) wrote a new book Your Hidden Superpowers: How the Whole Truth of Failure Can Change Our Lives, which was released on December 20, 2018. The book reveals that the way we think about failure affects our lives powerfully, often in ways we don’t see. See page 48 of this magazine for an alumni profile about Becca’s new book.

1995 Meredith Riddle Chastang Houston, TX meredithchastang@gmail.com Mary Sommers Burger Pyne Houston, TX marysommers@yahoo.com Carvana Hicks Cloud is the Division Chief of the Family Criminal Law Division and manages a 50-member team of lawyers, investigators and social workers committed to prosecuting domestic violence homicides and other high-risk domestic violence cases in Harris County. Last fall, Carvana pioneered the Domestic Abuse Response Team initiative, which is a mobile crisis intervention model designed to support victims of domestic violence within minutes

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after 911 is dialed. In addition to serving the community and protecting families, Carvana continues to give back and looks forward to mentoring and teaching law students enrolled in the criminal defense clinic at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. Though her work is her passion, the smiles of her husband and her children (daughter (9) and son (5)) warm her heart the most.

Ashley Browning Pfiester and her husband Austin are still living in Austin, TX with their two boys Charlie (6) and Ben (4). Charlie is in kindergarten at Trinity Episcopal School, where Ashley continues in her role as a Lower School Literacy Specialist. The Pfiesters are looking forward to some fun summer adventures in San Miguel De Allende and on Orcas Island in Washington.

Laura Lawhon Evans and her family moved to Austin, TX this past summer. Laura took a new position as Senior Associate with Abel Design Group, focusing on Interior Architecture for high-end corporate office spaces, hotels, restaurants and retail spaces. She has been with ADG in the Houston office for five years, and is excited about transitioning to this new role in the Austin location. Laura, Rian and the three boys – Vinson, Peter and Drew – are enjoying getting to know their new city, hanging out with cousins (sister Christine Lawhon James ’94 is here) and trying out all the things Austin. There’s been a handful of

music festivals, more of the outdoors than usual and a lot of tacos!

Clay Hackerman has recently been named one of Seattle’s Top 50 doctors. This comes as no surprise.

Clay is a general surgeon with a special interest in minimally invasive surgery, anti-reflux procedures and endoscopy. His personal interests include Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, guitar and snowboarding.

Artie Johnson and his wife Shannon have been quite busy spending quality time with baby Arthur III (1.5) and Sicily (3). The 2018 vintage was a spectacular one in Napa, especially coming off of the stressful fires of the 2017 vintage. The Johnsons were able to travel to Florence and Tuscany last summer, visiting vineyards and wineries with the Antinori family, Piero and his three daughters who now run their business. Fortunately, they ended the year with a post-harvest family vacation in Kukio, on the Kona Coast of Hawaii. Pruning is well under way there and they are looking forward to another great vintage for Staglin Family Vineyard and Le Artishasic.

Cheers to many more good years!

Dejon Banks Hawthorne is the Executive Director of Letting Everyone Achieve Dreams (LEAD). This 501(c) (3) provides access and opportunities to 500 underserved youth in some of Houston’s most underserved communities. This character development program prepares inner city middle school students for leadership and success in high school and beyond. Classes, community engagement and summer experiences are provided to the student LEADers. Dejon and her staff will return to Jackson Hole, WY this summer and take a group of student LEADers to the renowned Teton Science School. Kinkaid sent a group there for Interim Term last year!

Learn more about LEAD and support their mission at www.houstonlead. org. When Dejon escapes from her passion of LEADing, she can be found reading, still traveling (most recently to Tuscany) and enjoying time with her husband and family.

Kathleen Dunwoody Graf’s family just finished building a new home in the same place they’ve lived for 10 years. They used old Falcon friend John Kirksey ’94 (fs) to build it. Kathleen was named one of Greenwood King Properties’ Top Producers for the sixth time. They are also gearing up to start their ninth season playing baseball at West U Little League, where all three of their boys will be playing.

Leisa Ladin Dillon and husband Andy are rolling right along! Their oldest daughter Sam ’23 is approaching

high school, and younger daughter Cameron ’26 will be in sixth grade at Kinkaid next school year. Time is just flying by!

Deborah Vest Brown has daughters in seventh and fourth grade at Kinkaid.

Time is flying by, as next year she will have two middle schoolers. The Browns are excited to make a trip to Kauai for Spring Break; Deborah’s first time back there since Interim Term 1995!

Robert Lemus has switched firms and is now a litigator with Hughes Arrell Kinchen LLP in Houston. He has two girls at Kinkaid – Morgana ’29 and Alexandra ’32 – and hoping that their youngest Elesha will be able to join her sisters after she applies next year.

Meredith Riddle Chastang is still working with Monica Bailey Bickers at PaperCity. They had fun with four Kinkaid interns for Interim Term in January.

Meredith is also the President of the Board of Directors at Bo’s Place.

Bo’s Place is a non-profit, free-ofcharge bereavement center, that offers multiple grief support services for adults, children and families, and provides education and resources for those who assist people in grief.

Thank you, Meredith for your service! And saving the best for last, her son Mac has recently turned one!

Rachel Applegate is still toiling away at the Alley Theatre as Director of Marketing and Communications. It’s been a blockbuster season so far, breaking sales records for this season’s A Christmas Carol and naming a new Artistic Director. Rachel is loving the work and loves being in Houston. We are so happy you are back!

Kathryn McCarter Moore continues to work as a social worker at the VA hospital. She has two girls –Mary Helen (3 in April) and Margaret (1).

Margaret Scott Moore born November 20, 2017 (Daughter of Kathryn McCarter Moore ‘95)

Katherine Howe’s next novel, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, will be released by Henry Holt and

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Co on June 25. It’s a follow up to her first novel, and has witches and stuff.

Her info is on her website at www. katherinehowe.com. This book will be at the top of my summer reading list. Congrats, Kate!

Marilyn Bloss Koester continues to head the Communications Department for Memphis College of Art. When not working, Marilyn, Drew and their three kids – Mary Lee (15), George (12) and John David (11) – watch anime, foster puppies and travel.

Hillary Holmes Archer is well, living in Houston and spending time in Crested Butte, CO. Her boys are really enjoying Kinkaid Lower School.

Her oldest is actually a competitive slalom skier on the weekends and can definitely outski his mother!

She is still loving her law practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She and a team of friends founded the Houston office of the firm about 18

months ago and were honored to work on some of the largest oil and gas deals in 2018. Hillary was also honored to be recognized by the Houston Business Journal as one of the Women Who Mean Business in 2018. Congratulations, Hillary!

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Always great to hear from all of you. A common theme amongst our classmates is that “time is flying by,” and I couldn’t agree more. As for me (Mary Sommers Burger Pyne), my daughters are in the seventh grade at Kinkaid, and this summer they have the lucky opportunity to travel with Madame Schneller to France. A bon voyage indeed!

We have a new ‘lil Falcon. Callie Parker Bradford and her husband Kyle welcomed son Charles Henry Bradford on January 9th.

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Recently, Julie Barrett Philp built a rental house in Belize! Check out the property “Still Waters Belize” on Ambergris Caye at www.stillwatersbelize.com. Julie hosted a girls group of KHS Falcons from the Class of ’95 and ’99 to her new digs.

Erin Jones Brown Houston, TX erinjonesbrown@gmail.com Emily Mitchell Covey Houston, TX emily.covey@gmail.com

Robin Lewis Baker is still living in Washington, DC with husband Brian, and working in the admissions office at National Presbyterian School. She’s busy doing sports, trucks and all other kinds of mayhem with three boys (9, 4, 2).

Reagan Mabray Barry started work in Houston as an associate acupuncturist at the Axelrad Clinic, which focuses on natural fertility, IVF support, women’s health and pediatrics.

Jason Creech ‘96 and wife Danielle with their children - twin girls Caroline Vance Creech and Penelope “Poppy” Forbes Creech were born in June 2018.jpg

Reagan’s son (5) started kindergarten at Briarmeadow Charter School, and she and her husband welcomed new addition Jaxon Michael Barry (14 months) who is already very active. Reagan reports that they also added a new equine addition – a PRE foal named Alienor RA aka “Ella” born in March 2018. Reagan’s husband Kirby is still happily work-

KYPO Holiday Party December 19 at Kirby Ice House Britney Blodget ‘06 and Kimber Watson Eniola ‘07

Alumni Activities Manager Alexa Leach ‘09, Katie Skarke ‘08, Betty Gerecht Crain ‘08, Kirby Allison ‘08, Mason Bashaw Clelland ‘08, Eric Gemp ‘08

Cynthia Ormiston ‘14, Wilson Jeckovich ‘12, Carly Gray ‘12, Allison Bolin ‘12, John Adkins ‘12

Kevin Snodgrass ‘10, Michael Levin ‘12, Andrew Rubenstein ‘12, Meagan Zwahlen ‘12, Duncan Robinson ‘12, Will Fullenweider ‘12

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Your Hidden Superpowers A Q&A with Becca North ’94 (fs) Would you provide a brief description of your book?

Your Hidden Superpowers: How the Whole Truth of Failure Can Change Our Lives reveals that the way we think about failure affects our lives powerfully, often in ways we don’t see. The way that most of us view failure—the prevailing view—is that failure is bad. This book challenges the prevailing view of failure and illuminates how it is false. The prevailing view of failure is only a slice of the truth, yet this partial truth has a full-blown consequence. It shapes the way we lead our lives, holding us back and leading us to stay well within the bounds of what is possible. As a result, the way we view failure blocks us from tapping our full potential.

This book aims to expose the whole truth of failure by taking a fresh, frank look at the topic. It unveils the hidden dimensions of failure’s stunningly powerful bright side, takes an unflinching look at failure’s dark side, and spotlights cutting-edge, conventional-wisdom-defying research that redefines what it means to respond well to failure.

Your Hidden Superpowers draws on scientific research, my own and others’, and stories, including personal interviews I conducted with inspiring, well-known individuals from a wide range of fields: poetry and literature, politics, sports, education, business, and, more generally, leadership. Through drawing on a sweeping range of sources, including science, literature, philosophy, speeches, biographies, and popular culture, this book aims to rewrite the story we tell ourselves about failure. It also puts forth a vision of how shifting our view of failure would shift how we lead our lives and ultimately yield profound benefits for us as individuals and as a society by exposing

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hidden resources within us—innovations, breakthroughs, joy, meaning, and magic yet to be discovered.

What inspired you to write this book?

My interest in the relationship between failure and success had been building over time, but the idea for this book came to me one night in March of 2010 right after I experienced a failure in my own life. I was in the last few months of my doctoral program in psychology and was very excited about the findings of my dissertation, which investigated how to respond to failure in a way that would be associated with greater subsequent flourishing. On this particular night, I found out that I didn’t get a postdoctoral fellowship that seemed likely I would get. I was disappointed and I also had an idea fly into my mind that didn’t end up letting go; I wanted to investigate the connection between failure and success further by taking a more creative, personal approach. I wanted to interview people who inspire me from a broad range of careers about what role, if any, failure had played in their success. And I wanted to integrate science and stories to write a book investigating the relationship between failure and success. That idea grew into this book.

What were some of your criteria for selecting interviewees?

My criteria were simple. I wanted to interview people who inspire me from a broad range of careers—writers, educators, sports figures, political leaders, scientists, businesspeople, entertainers, etc. And I wanted to talk with individuals whom potential readers would know—public-figure types.

What are your favorite stories from your interviews? Were there any favorites that you had to leave out of the final manuscript?

Most of my favorite stories are in the book, but one that I didn’t include, which is funny and embarrassing, is that I found myself saying “Oh my!” when I spoke with Dr. Maya Angelou and was surprised or amazed by something she said. Saying that is fairly common for me, but I realized with embarrassment at a certain point that it could sound like I was saying “Oh” and then calling her by a nickname.

Why do you think this work is so timely and important today?

I am very excited by the possibility of a cultural shift in the way we view failure and the untapped resources and meaning that such a shift might elicit from all of us.

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ing for AmCap Mortgage as a broker. It was a busy year in the Barry household!

4). The Curetons’ youngest son Baker ’33 will join his brothers at Kinkaid in the fall as Class of 2033!

Debbie Blumberg and her husband bought their first house in the Westbury neighborhood of Houston, and she reports that she’s happy to not move again for a while! Debbie loves walking her daughter Sadie to kindergarten and is excited for pool parties this summer in their backyard. She is still freelancing and has added more clients to her writing and editing business (including WebMD and Goldman Sachs). Debbie is also about halfway through writing her novel and is determined to finish a first draft this year and begin the agent search!

Kathryn Floyd’s daughter Izzy just turned one the day after Christmas – time flies! Kathryn is still at Banana Republic and has lots of work travel ahead to amazing places like Morocco and Japan. She spends most weekends in Healdsburg, CA with her family.

Brandt Bowden and his wife Mary Kay have three kids at Kinkaid – Russell ’28 (9), Annabelle ’30 (7) and Blye ’32 (5). Brandt reports that all three of his Falcons love their experiences and friends at Kinkaid! Their baby Mayfair (2) is in school five days a week at St. Martin’s Episcopal Preschool. The Bowdens are happy in Houston and thoroughly enjoy their time back at Kinkaid!

Harris Brodsky is still happily living and working in Austin, TX. Kinnison Dunkum Bryan is in her fifth year of teaching kindergarten at Walnut Springs Elementary in Dripping Springs, TX. Her son Casen (6) is also in kindergarten right next door!

Kinnison reports that it has been wonderful watching him interact with classmates, learn to read, excel in mathematical thinking and grow into a curious, energetic little boy.

Casen enjoys all things “boy” – baseball, football, cars, trucks, Legos and poop jokes. Her son Chance (10.5) is in fifth grade and just got braces, which he is oddly excited about! He has a million friends and a full social calendar of Select Baseball, pick-up football games, YouTube video recordings, hikes in the greenbelt and boating adventures. Kinnison’s oldest son Colton is transitioning this spring from Select Baseball to Select Soccer, and she reports that his extremely competitive nature keeps him aiming for the best in everything he does!

Kinnison says he is beginning to look and act like a teenager – send help!

Life is good in the Bryan household!

Kelli Roosth Cooney and husband Jim are still living in New York City.

Daughter Olivia (10) is in fourth grade and son Jamie (7) is in first grade. Kelli tries to attend as many Kinkaid New York Alumni Events as possible with fellow New Yorkers Chad Roosth ’01, Alexis Lipshultz Moses, Whitney Weems Mogavero, Bob Hay and Melissa Liebling-Goldberg.

Cameron Cureton and his wife Laura and have three happy boys (9, 7 and

Betsy LaFuze Gill and family moved to Knoxville, TN in 2015, where she works PRN as a Speech-Language Pathologist and her husband works at University of Tennessee. Both of her kids – daughter (9) and son (6) – are in elementary school this year leaving her seven hours each school day to complete an uninterrupted thought!

Jason Goldstein moved to Dallas and began teaching Upper School English at The Hockaday School last fall. He thoroughly enjoys working with such a bright and motivated group of young women. Mr. Ballard’s portrait hangs on campus, so Kinkaid is never too far from his thoughts.

Mollie Gordon works as an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, and started an Anti-Human Trafficking Treatment and Research Program. She is completing the Harvard Program in Global Health in Refugee Trauma and was in Orvieto, Italy, in the fall taking the first few weeks of coursework of the yearlong program. Mollie and her team have been publishing lots of papers and are finishing their first book on the topic! Mollie’s son Jacob ’25 started sixth grade at Kinkaid and it has been a wonderful experience for him. She also reports that it’s fun to be back on campus seeing old friends and their kids! Their daughter Dalia is in fourth grade and daughter Shelly is a kindergarten student at Beth Yeshurun Day School. Mollie and her husband Ron also recently celebrated their 14year anniversary.

Paul Knickerbocker is on the board of directors for The Snapdragon Book Foundation (www.snapdragonbookfoundation.org), which provides grants to school libraries that serve disadvantaged youth around the nation. He also enjoys cheering for Duke basketball!

Kathleen Deaton Lalor currently works in Dallas as the Senior Event Coordinator for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Southeast Division. And the big news is that Kathleen and her family will be moving to Raleigh, NC in June for her husband Mike’s job. Kathleen says it will be strange not living in Texas,

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KHS Falcons from the classes of ’95 and ’99 in Belize: Sterling Kelso Neff (honorary Falcon), Jacquelyn Sorcic Johnson ’99, Carolyn Martin Dodson ’99, Julie Barrett Philp ’95, Lindsay Dunlop Griffin ’95, Laura Lawhon Evans ’95, Stephanie Schulz Green ’95, Kathryn McCarter Moore ’95, Audrey Barrett Bixler ’99

but they are excited for the new adventure!

Alexis Lipshultz Moses is still in NYC living on the Upper East Side with her two kids – Waverly (9) and Taft (6), husband and dog. Alexis recently started substitute teaching at private schools in the area and is loving it. She can’t say so much about the cold winter!

Kristin Kirk Nelson and her husband Ryan welcomed their third child Florence “Elizabeth” Nelson in September 2018. Congrats, Kristin and Ryan!

Nina Mahendra Pilson handles wholesale for the southwest region for Valentino and travels monthly.

Her schedule is a little crazy, but it works. Nina’s boys (6.5 and 9) are both at West University Elementary and starting to play lacrosse. The family went to Banff/Lake Louise over the Christmas holiday and took the boys skiing for the first time.

Nina sees Lauren Roemer Morgan for lunch often and was able to connect with Rohini Sahni over the holidays as well…an annual tradition!

2018 was a busy year for Travis Rea! He and his wife Ana welcomed twin boys (Thomas Henry Rea and Robert Joseph Rea) on April 21, 2018. Their first son John (3) is enjoying being a big brother. The Reas launched the Brava Oven (www.brava.com) in July and began shipping in November and they showcased it at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Congrats on all fronts, Travis!

David Rench lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Missy and three daughters Allison (10), Lauren (7) and Brooklyn (4).

He sold the software company that he co-founded to Control4 in December 2017 and then became the CFO of Hirzel Capital, a hedge fund.

David also coaches his daughters’ soccer teams and leads Adventure Princess outings.

Everything is “hunky dory” at the Ross house, according to Christie Barksdale Ross. Campbell (8), Newtie (6) and Baker (2.5) are busy and keeping her and husband Newton

on their toes. They had an awesome South Texas Christmas vacation and are excited for 2019. Christie loves seeing Kinkaid alumni friends and what they’re up to, whether in person or via Facebook.

Emily George Seiders is rocking the interior design world in Austin, TX and welcomed a “big surprise and big joy” a year ago – Charlotte Allison Seiders. Congrats Emily, Rick and big brother Grey!

Life is busy-busy in Dallas for Leslie Harper Sharp. Leslie has two girls – Harper Ann (11) and Ellie (8). Her pool safety fence company is still going strong 11 years later, and Leslie recently added a fun side hustle – Scout & Cellar Clean-Crafted wines!

As if she were not busy enough, Leslie is also the PTA president! She says she “may” have over-committed herself this year, and Derrik may kill her. Last year Derrik started working with Laura Gannon Greenwood’s husband Paul, which has been fun.

Brooke Hansen Spanos is still living in Los Angeles, CA with her husband and two kids. She runs a child and adolescent psychiatry practice and works with various organizations for mental health advocacy. Brooke’s oldest son competed in the mutton bustin’ competition at the Houston Rodeo last year. His grandmother swears he won, but officially he was a close second. The Spanos clan will be back this year because the kids are hooked. Yee-haw!

Mark Thiessen’s son Baron (6) is playing all kinds of sports for SBMSA, and it’s tough for Mark to not root for the Falcons when they play them. His little princess Berkley (4) is trying to give him a heart attack by talking about her boyfriends and kissing boys on the playground. Mark is still competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and hoping to get his brown belt this year. Wife Taly and Mark are doing great and have been very successful trying a lot of tough felonies together. Mark’s practice is expanding into more serious alcohol, drug and vehicular crimes, while Taly handles all of the

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30th Annual Alumni Holiday Party December 6 in the Ogilve Lobby — Katz Performing Arts Center

Suzanne Bruce, Malcolm Waddell ‘70, Carolyn Cullinan ‘70, Browne Baker ‘70, Robin Baker, Mariella Haas Allard ‘63, Jeff Baker ‘72, Pam Baker

Lynn Meyer Fort ‘68, Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh ‘66, Michael Kuhn ‘68, Lucy Kuhn

Jennifer Bilger, Bruce Bilger ‘01, Warren Knull ‘02, Caroline Schmidt, Ben Brown ‘01

David Brill ‘78, John Maclay ‘81, Evans Attwell ‘79, Amy Ragan ‘81

Director of Advancement Tom Moore, Mary Sommers Burger Pyne ‘95, Saint Clare Pratt Seifert ‘60 (fs), Assistant Director of Advancement Lisa Wood

Sam Wallace, Lindsay Green Wallace ‘98, Lisa Houssiere, Charles Houssiere ‘98, Meredith Hopson Beaupre ‘98, Andy Beaupre

Sandy Selber Sturm ‘91, Michel Miller Mullett ‘00, Dara Frankel

Susan Westmoreland McConkey ‘84, Mallory McKay Callaway ‘84, Claire Cummins Lorenz ‘84

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Ariana Nizza Chapman Houston, TX Ariananizzachapman@gmail.com

Anne Marie Vollero Thompson and husband Beau are having fun with their kindergartener (Charlotte) and first grader (Sofia). Anne still works part-time as a health educator with Texas Children’s Health Plan.

David Wise says he’s just trying to keep up with kids and not succeeding. Next fall, his son Henry will enter sixth grade, Sam fourth grade and Jack PreK-4.

Jim Withers’ boys (10 and 8) love football and basketball and his daughter (4) loves anything pink. The Withers still live in Austin, TX around the corner from Emily George Seiders, and their families have a blast together. Jim hopes everyone in the Class of 1996 is doing great!

And as for me (Erin Jones Brown), life in Houston continues to be full and happy! Like many of you, Wil ’95 and I stay busy with our work and kids.

Harper ’26 has made the transition into Middle School at Kinkaid as a fifth grader and Hutton ’28 isn’t far behind in third grade. They both love Kinkaid, and it’s so fun for us to watch them learn and grow at a school that we both love!

As for me (Emily Mitchell Covey), I celebrated one year in business at my independent real estate brokerage in January. I am having fun with it, and just became the landlord of a historic bungalow I salvaged in Montrose. I’m still helping fellow Falcons with traditional real estate, but this has been a nice side gig – to change things up as I embark on a new decade. I am also serving as the current president of our neighborhood association and the homeroom mom for my first grader’s class. Most guilty for keeping me absolutely exhausted – yet entertained – are my daughters Elena (6) and Isabel (3)! My husband Chad works in executive search and now keeps me updated on some of our Class of ’96 execs.

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family law cases. Mark was one of only five criminal lawyers in Houston to make the Top 100 Super Lawyers list. Congrats!

Alex Turboff celebrated her 40th birthday in Thailand! It was an amazing trip, which was only marred by the fact that she was stung on the ankle by a stingray towards the end of it.

Last June, Alex married Mauricio Sanchez, an Art Director at Discovery Channel and a mixed media artist. This makes Alex stepmom to an amazing seven-year-old, Lucas. Most eventful, they welcomed Asher David Sanchez-Turboff on his due date (October 21, 2018) after a 24-hour labor. Congrats, Alex!

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Leslie Roemer Labanowski Houston, TX leslielabanowski@gmail.com

2003 Anne Tropoli Kahle Houston, TX anne.tropoli@gmail.com

Toni Williams Zink ‘99 and husband Adrian

minute to remember one of our classmates from sixth and seventh grade. Jason Spindler (fs) was the sole American among 21 killed in a terrorist attack in Kenya in January.

Jason lived a short, but remarkable life. He graduated from UT Business, worked on Wall Street, survived 9/11, joined the Peace Corps and then later founded a technology company (iDev) that helped emerging markets. Jason was living and working in Nairobi, Kenya at the time of the attack. A memorial foundation is set up at jjsfoundation.com.

1997 Christina Wilson Altenau Houston, TX Christina.altenau@gmail.com Daniel Jenkins Houston, TX Danieljenkinsiv@gmail.com

1998 Amy Parker Beeson Houston, TX amyparkerbeeson@gmail.com

1999 Elizabeth Evans Mann Houston, TX elizabeth.e.mann@gmail.com

From the Advancement Office: Toni Williams Zink says, “Hi Class of 1999! I can’t believe that it’s been 20 years!

I hope to see my closest, dearest Kinkaid friends at our class reunion.

I have missed our laughs, inside jokes and fun together. Even though we’re spread out all over the world and lost contact, I think of you all often hoping you are well and that God has blessed you the way He has blessed me. I have two beautiful children and a wonderful husband here in Kansas City, and I spend my time doing what I love most...helping others (senior year: rated most likely to be a talk show host).

2000 Spencer English Houston, TX spencer.english@gmail.com Alyssa Gardner Kilpatrick Houston, TX alyssakilpatrick@hotmail.com Michel Miller Mullett Houston, TX michelmullett@hotmail.com

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Krystal Carter Houston, TX krystaldcarter@gmail.com Catherine Gutermuth Arlington, VA cgutermuth@gmail.com From the Advancement Office: Andrew Alexander writes, “Family, friends and work take up most of my time. The rest of that time is pursuing interests and working on myself.

I miss my amazing classmates and think of all the epic times we had together often. Only wish the best for everyone in the class of 2001.

Thanks to all for pushing me to always improve myself, to never stop learning and always remember the values Kinkaid instilled in all of us.”

On a very tragic note, we thought it would be appropriate to take a

Stephen Brewer and his wife Linden live in west Houston and are expecting a baby boy due on June 27th. Tucker (3) loves playing outside and with Legos, and sitting in time out for coloring on the walls and hitting his sister. Cameron (1.5) enjoys eating off Tucker’s plate and playing dress up.

Leslie Frankel Wiener and her husband Gary had a baby girl named Bailey in October 2018. Big sister Hannah is enjoying all of the baby’s new toys. Congratulations, Leslie!

Jarrett Golding recently became a Visiting Associate Professor in Communications at Pepperdine University in addition to his work as a screenwriter and Adjunct Professor of Screenwriting at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Jarrett and his wife Sarah bought their first home in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and love having a backyard for their toddler George to run around.

Molly Bethel Quinlan and her husband Marc welcomed a baby girl (six weeks early!) back in September, just after moving to Golden, CO. Molly will receive her Master’s to become a Family Nurse Practitioner this May and is working to figure this mom thing out!

Rudy Wrabel’s son Reggie will join the Kinkaid PreK Class of 2033 next fall.

Hard to believe we are old enough to have kids attending Kinkaid already!

Frank Vargas, his wife Rachael and their son Felix welcomed new baby Penelope in June 2018. Three months later they left Sicily after three years, moving to the island of Crete in Greece, where Frank is now the deputy director of Navy supply operations for Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Wakeford Thompson accepted an exciting opportunity with EIG Global Energy Partners in 2018 and has enjoyed the job change. He and Elizabeth welcomed their second daughter Raines in June. Big sister Allie (3) is excited to have a little sister to play with.

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2003 alumnae Kate Werlein, Allison Poarch, Helena Davis Mendez, Rachel Jones Berry, Anne Tropoli Kahle and friends celebrating Allison Poarch and Kate Werlein’s recent engagements

Adelaide Zimmerman Emanuele and her husband Alex are loving life in Los Angeles, CA. She still works as a cardiology Nurse Practitioner at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. They have a son Max (2) and as of the beginning of February were expecting another baby boy any day.

Kristen Tiner Brearey and her husband Guy officially became homeowners in 2018! They purchased an apartment in Manhattan and moved into their new home in July. Kristen’s business unit of Thomson Reuters went through a $20B private equity take-private by Blackstone, and she is now a part of the newly formed firm Refinitiv. Guy started as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley last fall. They are enjoying their new jobs and new home, and are hoping for some vacation at some point in the near future!

Our class has two weddings in its future! In December 2018, Allison Poarch got engaged to Thomas Coleman from Atlanta, GA. Kate Werlein and Derek Peterson got engaged in December as well and live in Laguna Beach, CA. And I (Anne Tropoli Kahle) am staying

coming baby girl number two in May 2019! Becky was promoted to a Director for Brentwood Capital Advisors in December.

busy with my son Augie (3) and daughter Teddy (1) and live in Houston.

From the Advancement Office: Jonathan Brown and Miguel Rodriguez are Co-Owners of For The Culture Brewing Company, which is bringing diversity to Houston’s growing craft beer scene. For the last year, they have been popping up around Houston and hope to have a permanent brewery location by the end of 2019. You can check them out on social media or at fortheculturebrewing.com.

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Jordan Allison Boyce Houston, TX jordan.boyce67@gmail.com Emily Catherine Jeter Riggs Houston, TX ecjriggs@gmail.com

2005 Grace Lee Hofer Houston, TX graceleehofer@gmail.com

Mary Catherine White Jones ‘04 with her wedding party, including Kim Heine Nettles ‘04, Bailey Thomas Haidamous ‘04, Whitney Rape ‘04, Lawson Mischer ‘04, Rebecca Silberman, Mallory Gershen Wynne ‘04, Audrey Gordon Rowe ‘04, Nicole Weitz Kittler ‘04, Ashley Springmeyer Jones ‘04 52

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Grace Lee Hofer joined Circa Lighting in October 2018 as a Business Development Specialist working with architects, builders and designers in Houston.

Allison and Chuck Helms ‘04 with baby Meier born on September 30, 2018

Kate Beasley Brock welcomed son Charlie to their family on December 18, 2018. Kate and husband Michael are enjoying life as a family of four!

On November 16, 2018, Julia Coskey Cole and her husband Andrew welcomed their son William Robert Cole. William is a very happy baby and his parents love watching him learn and grow. They are all enjoying life in Chicago.

Becky Blades Gregg and her husband Justin are looking forward to wel-

Anthony Harrison and wife Ashley are enjoying life in Los Angeles, CA. Anthony is working at Warner Bros and feels blessed beyond reasonable comprehension.

Abby Lestin is thrilled to announce she is now the Event Sales Manager for The Rustic Downtown, which opened in November 2018, and is a live music venue, restaurant and event space right next to George R. Brown Convention Center! Abby is still in Houston and absolutely loving it!

Meredith Claire Markham got engaged to Justin Seide in November 2018.

They are very much looking forward to their fall wedding in Houston!

In May 2018, Shannon Prince concluded her joint JD/PhD program by earning her doctorate in African and African American Studies from Har-

2004 Kinkaid alumni at William and Mary Catherine White Jones’ wedding: Daniel Romero, Brian Kaplan, Ashley Springmeyer Jones, Kim Heine Nettles, Whitney Rape, Nicole Weitz Kittler, Lawson Mischer, John Bell, Bailey Thomas Haidamous, Pierce Bush, Cassie Detering Milam (fs), Audrey Gordon Rowe, Brittany Sakowitz Kushner

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vard University. She began working as a lawyer at Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP in the fall.

In November 2018, Betsy Rosenberg Riley’s company Doyenne was acquired by AllBright, a London-based women’s collective and social club.

Abigail Smith Zamorano and her husband Oscar live in St. Louis, MO where she is a Gynecologic Oncology Fellow. Abigail is also completing a Master’s in Population Health Sciences and focuses her research on gynecologic cancer disparities in the U.S. and Guatemala.

2006 Casson Wen Houston, TX cassonwen@gmail.com 2018 was an exciting year for the Class of 2006, filled with weddings, graduations, professional accomplishments and babies!

Haley Berkman Karren married Adam Karren on October 6, 2018 in Aspen, CO. After honeymooning in Australia and Fiji, the newlyweds currently reside in Houston.

Katrina Korhonen is living in Philadelphia, PA. She completed her diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania in June 2018, where she is currently doing her breast imaging fellowship. After finishing her fellowship in June 2019, she will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she will practice both breast imaging and nuclear medicine with a research emphasis in molecular breast imaging.

Eddie Moore and his wife Brittany welcomed their first child – Eli Alexander Moore – on November 4, 2018.

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Emily Schreiber is a Director of Development at Rice University, where she has been working with alumni and families raising philanthropic gifts for the past two and half years.

She represents Rice in the Southeast United States, traveling 50% of the month from Maryland to Florida to Louisiana and back again. In the summer of 2018, Emily received her Master’s degree in Non-Profit Management and achieved the CFRE, Certified Fund Raising Executive, distinction.

Keri Tiner graduated with an MBA from Wharton in May 2018. She then moved to Denver, CO and has an exciting job in real estate private equity when she isn’t spending time in the mountains.

Casson Wen lives in the Houston area with his wife Nina, their son Oliver and their labradoodle Oxford. He is an attorney practicing real estate development law at a law firm in Houston.

2007 Lauren Lestin Atlanta, GA 713-703-4974 lflestin@gmail.com The Class of 2007 has a lot to look forward to in 2019, with growing families, post-graduate degrees, marriages and more. Wishing everyone a happy and successful year!

Jenny Sangalis Tompkins and her husband Rich welcomed their baby boy Owen in August 2018! They have had a blast taking on their new role as parents. Jenny continues to work at Gulf States Toyota as a Market Representation Manager.

Lauren Marsh was promoted to Vice President at Ares and is engaged to be married!

Naresh Vissa ’07 at his wedding with Kinkaid alumni Rahul Agrawal ‘05, Neal Jain ‘05, Karthik Rammohan ‘05 and four SJS alumni friends

and Barrett (almost 2) – are currently in Montreal during hockey season! Jeff’s team, the Montreal Canadiens, is hoping to maintain a playoff spot, so they are looking forward to an exciting spring! Julie and her fellow hockey wife friend Angela designed another edition of their clothing line for the team, CHic, which launched in February.

When the season is over, the Petrys will head back to Michigan for the summer where they will get ready to welcome baby #3 in August! Until then, Julie will stay busy being referee between Boyd and Barrett, and continuing her foodie Instagram @ the_dailyjules.

Peter Bujosa is recently engaged to Caitlin Marie Erchick. Caitlin is a JD candidate at University of Houston with a focus in health law, and Peter is a MBA candidate at Rice University. The two will both graduate in May and plan to get married this summer.

William Simmons and wife Paige are still living in Dallas but look forward to moving back to Houston this summer. Their son Jack (4) loves ninjas and dinosaurs and their baby girl Raleigh (2) loves dogs and her hair bows. William will be leaving the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and going to work in private equity later this year.

comed their first daughter Kennedy Louise King on June, 21, 2018!

Lexi Sakowitz got engaged on September 15, 2018 to Mike Marek. He proposed at the Blanton Museum in Austin, TX, and the two are excited to be in the throes of wedding planning. Lexi is going into her third year with John Daugherty Realtors and is still very much enjoying working with Houstonians to buy, sell, look and lease in the greater Houston area. She also completed her first marathon in the Chevron Houston Marathon on January 20.

Kate Rouzer has enjoyed a busy year with many new experiences. After her ninth season with St. Louis Ballet Company, she decided to expand her professional experiences and repertoire by working with several new companies as a freelancer as well as traveling with her own business, AntiGravity®KR Aerial Yoga & Suspension Fitness. She is visiting Houston for a few months as she has had several requests from other fitness businesses to bring AntiGravity®KR into their studios and gyms. Kate is also working on her Health Coach Certification through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

Elizabeth Robinson is recently engaged to Corey Kendrick!

Joel Sandler and his wife Camille had a baby on October 2, 2018 – Josephine Joy Sandler, 5 lbs 14 oz, 18 inches.

Julie Mackay Petry, her husband Jeff and their two boys – Boyd (3.5)

Haley Berkman Karren ‘06 with her bridesmaid Margaret Stern ‘06

Austin Fatjo ‘07 with his groomsmen, including 2007 Kinkaid alumni Ford Beckham, Zac Hoffer, Robbie Zimmerman, Michael Pappas

Collin King and his wife Michele wel-

Carlton Wilde is still working in the litigation section of Bracewell LLP,

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focusing on mass torts and general commercial defense. He and his wife Jordan are expecting a second child (boy) in July, and their first son Boomer recently turned two.

In December 2018, Naresh Vissa married Dr. Avani during a three-day, Indian wedding in Tampa, FL. Kinkaid alumni Jayaji More, Mitch Koch, Rahul Agrawal ’05, Neal Jain ’05, Karthik Rammohan ’05 and Sandya Muchimilli ’11 attended the festivities.

Naresh and Avani are looking forward to their multiple honeymoons to Cozumel, Cabo, Cancun, Cayman Islands, India and other U.S. cities before moving into a house.

Leila Ladjevardian is currently based in London, after spending the last six years in New York. After graduating from Columbia Business School, she moved to London for a job at Goldman Sachs in the Securities Division. She is very much settled in London, enjoying living in the same city as her mother, cousins and friends. After almost two years at Goldman, Leila left to launch her own business, FuLL Impact Advisory, a philanthropic advisory boutique firm. She spent seven years as a UNICEF ambassador before deciding to follow her passion and help advise families, small businesses and high net worth individuals on their philanthropic giving. FuLL Impact Advisory works to curate programs and tailored experiences specific to each client’s long-term philanthropic vision and goals. The firm works very closely with interested parties to define their philanthropic objectives, determine their giving strategy and scope and execute on their vision in the most effective and efficient ways.

After five years in LA, Mackie Wood Tschoepe and her husband David moved back home to Houston in

Edmond O’Suji ’09 with his groomsmen, including Kinkaid alumni George Collins ‘09 and Kyle Golding ‘09

May 2018! They are thrilled to be near family and old friends again.

Mackie is working as the Business Development Manager for the oil and gas practice at the law firm Akin Gump, and they are living in the Heights.

Austin Fatjo married Ally Fatjo on June 9, 2018!

Sam Pouns is enjoying life in Houston and starting his ninth year in the commercial real estate industry.

I am still living in Atlanta, GA and am recently engaged to Bram Philipson.

I also launched my own boutique public relations firm, Grey Fox PR, in August 2018, and am representing restaurants and chefs across the southeast and Texas.

Thank you, and looking forward to hearing from everyone again soon.

Lauren

2008 Kirby Allison Los Angeles, CA kallison22@gmail.com Mason Bashaw Clelland Houston, TX mason.clelland@gmail.com

2009 Alanna McAuley London, England armcauley75@gmail.com In the year 2018, Jeanie Arnold replaced her boyfriend with a dog, started grad school and quit working at the Smithsonian Institution, almost in that order. She is now pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health at George Washington University and still loves coaching weightlifting at her gym in Washington, DC. Her dog Rogue is the

Dalton and Julia Wood Harris ‘08 at their wedding with Kinkaid alumni, including Kirby Allison ‘08, Frances Smith ‘08, Katie Skarke ‘08, Nicholas Wood ‘11, Charles Houssiere ‘98, Jordan Lippman ‘08, Lee Simon Cerocismo ‘08, Shannon Smith ‘08, Bret Berie ‘08, Jeffrey Berman ‘08, Sarah Atnipp ‘08, Haley Freeman Roff ‘08, Mason Bashaw Clelland ‘08, Matthew Hussey ‘08, Andrew Sprague ‘08, Robert Anderson ‘08, Bowe Partin ‘07, Andrew Klein ‘08

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biggest headache and joy of her life and can be followed on Instagram at @roguerogers.

Taylor Bass had an exciting year. In July 2018 she began an MBA program. In August, she left teaching behind to work in mental health at the Menninger Clinic alongside Kinkaid alumnae Emily Pyle ’08 and Audrey Pyle ’08. In December, she graduated as a registered 200-hr yoga instructor. Taylor is most excited about launching a holistic life coaching business this year.

Nina Brener-Hellmund is coming up on her fifth year in London. She is six months away from finishing her MBA at the London Business School. Alongside school, she has been working for luxury e-commerce company Moda Operandi.

Nina is re-designing Moda’s loyalty program, which launches soon!

After three years in the investment banking world, Wells Childress co-founded the premium sourcing destination for the luxury home, Mode Maison. Wells currently resides in NYC, where he is an active Columbia University alumnus, participating in Columbia’s Startup Lab over 2017-2018 alongside young graduates from the Business and Engineering schools. Wells and Kinkaidian co-founder Steven Gay ’11 couldn’t be more excited about Mode Maison’s anticipated launch midway through 2019.

Katherine Cunningham is still holding it down in Houston. She just celebrated her five-year anniversary working at the Alley Theatre in the fundraising department. When she’s not supporting or participating in local theatre, you can find her teaching dance fitness classes at Dance House Fitness!

Rebecca Harris is holding down the fort in Brooklyn, NY and is in her third year as CEO of Purple, a me-

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Kendall Bentsen gained a husband (Jesse DuMond) but kept her name.

She was hired as the Organizer for the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a legal advocacy group that seeks to ensure that no one is punished for the outcome of their pregnancies whether they have an abortion, experience a pregnancy loss or go to term and give birth. The New York Times recently wrote about NAPW’s work and clients that she 10/10 recommends checking out. Kendall and Jesse have moved to Brooklyn, NY and now live a two-minute walk from Abbey Hickman Hendrix and her husband Danny. Lastly, Kendall is going to be the keynote speaker for the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy’s Student Advocacy Day on the Hill.

Amy Wynne Galloway ‘09 with her Kinkaid wedding party, including 2009 alumnae Alexa Leach, Glyn Tower, Clare Bailey Holden, Kerbey Finger Feinsilver, Hannah Lockwood, Ashley Fatjo, Amanda Rutherford Lodge

dia/tech startup she co-founded with David Heimann (husband of Katie Carpenter!). This year she also started co-producing an all-female comedy show at the People’s Improv Theater which has been a blast and kept her creative juices flowin’.

She was recently named Top 30 Under 30 for Media by Forbes.

Matt Johnson is continuing graduate school at the University of Washington in Computer Science and Engineering. He was fortunate to receive a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and is exploring how remote communities can build and deploy economically sustainable connectivity infrastructure. Outside of work he still enjoys yoga, photography, tromping around the forest and cooking with friends!

Alex Goss is living in Houston. Alex organizes an artist-run project space called Moonmist. Exhibitions showcase work from unconvention-

ternational war crimes, among other things. He plans to intern as a data journalist at a public media station in the Midwest this summer. He’s slated to graduate in May 2020.

Jarrett Wadler had a crazy 2018. After getting a promotion at work and resigning his lease in Denver, CO, Jarrett decided to embark on a fulltime MBA at the University of North Carolina, which he began in August 2018. Jarrett is currently interviewing for summer internships and is hoping to land at a major tech firm.

2010 Evan Henke New York, NY henke.evan@gmail.com

Abbey Hickman Hendrix ‘10, Kendall Bentsen ‘10, Meg Peterson (Class of 2010 “Kinkaid Wannabe”), Amy Chapman Silva ‘10 at Kendall’s wedding in New York

Alanna McAuley has had a year of change. In June 2018, she graduated with an MLIS degree, and in November she moved to London, where she now looks the right way before crossing the street about 80% of the time.

She is focused on getting to know her new city and started a new job in knowledge management at the beginning of January.

Lilian Nwora is a Registered Dietitian.

She spent last year in Abilene, TX in Pharma, but is thrilled to be back in DFW. She works as a Certified Diabetes Educator at The Cooper Clinic and serves as Wellness Coordinator at Aetna. She is a bodybuilder, ice cream lover and avid reader.

Brian Perlman began his first year of graduate studies at UC Berkeley. He’s working on a Master’s in Journalism and is active with Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, which uses opensource techniques to investigate in-

Lauren Hogan Colton ‘10 with her Kinkaid bridesmaids including, Morgan Beeler ‘10, Chelsea Fred ‘10, Laura Clegg ‘10, Mary Catherine Fondren Deskins ‘11, Caroline Hafner ‘10, Laine Lieberman ‘10

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Marissa Smith Washington, DC marissa.smith@me.com From the Advancement Office: As part of the NBCUniversal Page Program, Karen Brownman is an NBC Entertainment PR & Talent West Coast Page. Some of her duties include ratings reports, news roundups and clipping articles about NBC shows.

She’s gotten to do a lot of cool things like attend the Emmy’s and help with the America’s Got Talent live shows!

She says, “At the end of the day, this business is about the people and the relationships you form, and I was lucky enough to be in a department that fostered those relationships and taught me so much about the role of publicity in making our shows as successful as possible.”

William Labanowski ‘11 and wife Katie with Lawrence Labanowski ‘02, John Labanowski ‘00, Charles Labanowski ‘06, Liz Jacobs Labanowski ‘73, Paul Labanowski, Greg Labanowski ‘13, Mary Labanowski ‘16

al and under-represented mediums and practices with an emphasis on emerging Texas artists. For each installation, Moonmist hosts an opening reception with chef-catered refreshments, providing a communal, ephemeral and site-specific experience. While addressing political and logistical challenges of contemporary art in their unique way, Moonmist aims to connect communities from across Houston closer together and to broaden geographies of conversation in contemporary art. You can learn more at moonmist.space Stephen Johnson (fs) is living in Los Angeles, CA building Google ads for social media at Flipmass.

James Hamrick is writing and producing a play in New York titled 90/10.

Follow its progress on Instagram (@_90_10_nyc_). Break a leg, Jim!

Maddy Gould moved to DC last summer and is a policy and regulatory affairs associate at AWEA (American Wind Energy Association). She also adopted a cat named Mila.

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Rachel Feig is halfway through her clinical rotations and will graduate from graduate PA school at UT Southwestern in December. She is looking to go into oncology.

Kirby Gilbert Austin, TX kirbycgilbert@gmail.com Two of our classmates got engaged recently! Mike Mayfield got engaged to Claire Campbell and Blake Masterson got engaged to Caroline Armistead. Congratulations to you all!

2014 Haley Ebel Houston, TX haley.ebel@gmail.com

Maddie Brown, Will Fullenweider, Reed Hash and myself will all be graduating from the University of Texas School of Law in May of this year.

Hope everyone is having a great 2019 so far!

Rohan Naik ‘14

2011 Avery Geisler St. Louis, MO aag459@gmail.com Harry Hantel New York, NY hhantel@gmail.com Congratulations to William Reade on finishing law school. William is now off to Madrid where he will be studying sports management. Vamos!

Marshall Shaffer continues to rise through the ranks of film criticism, as he is now a Tomatometer approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes.

You can read Marshall’s work on Slashfilm, his own site Marshall and the Movies and elsewhere. Two thumbs up!

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Clemmie Pierce Martin ‘12 with her wedding party, including Kinkaid alumnae Emmy Sprague ‘12, Carroll Ison ’13, Emily Lahourcade ’12, Bar Pierce ’19

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From the Advancement Office: Tyler Higby received the Up Front Award (outstanding lineman), Offense at the Michigan State University football team awards banquet in November.

2016 Need volunteer From the Advancement Office: Good job to Ty Doran who was in the guest cast of Season 3, Episode 10 of Bull on CBS in December and on Chicago Fire on NBC in January.

2017 Ellee Dukes Austin, TX elleedukes@mac.com Jake Reinbolt Dallas, TX jakereinbolt@gmail.com

2018 Katherine Berman Lexington, VA katherine@katherineberman.com TX Harris Salt Lake City, UT txharris92@gmail.com

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been selected to be a Tour Guide and sit on the Honor Council.”

TX Harris: “College is great so far!

Nothing too exciting has happened yet, but I have gone skiing a couple times and that’s been fun. My athletic accomplishments include winning my intramural flag football league and being my floor Mario kart champion. Next summer I plan on staying at the University of Utah to do a summer semester and then leave on my two-year mission for church in the fall. The best thing about Salt Lake City is being a 30-minute drive from the mountains and canyon, so I’m super close to skiing, snowboarding and anything else outdoors. Highlight of college so far was catching air on a Lime bike, trying to J stop, but not hitting brakes and flying down a hill in front of 30+ people on my first day.”

Ashton Lambert: “College is great! My big news is I will be spending the summer in Logan, UT at Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre performing in Newsies, Westside Story and Mary Poppins.”

If you would like to volunteer to be the class notes correspondent for your grade, please contact Alexa Leach ’09 at alexa. leach@kinkaid.org or 713-243-5054.

Isabel Stallings Orange, CA isabel.stallings@gmail.com

Karen Brownman ‘13

From the Advancement Office: Recent Yale graduate Rohan Naik was among the 12 individuals selected as Mitchell Scholars in November.

The scholarship program sends future leaders to the island of Ireland for a year of graduate study. This year, a record 370 individuals applied for the 12 scholarships. Recipients are chosen on the basis of academic distinction, leadership and service. A journalist and researcher, Rohan is currently working on an upcoming Netflix documentary series on the 14th amendment.

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selected to play in the 2018 Victory Sports Tours/NFHCA Division I Senior Game in November. After graduation, she will join the athletics department at River Oaks Baptist School in Houston.

Aerin Kalmans: “College is going great so far. Kinkaid prepared me well for my classes, especially Spanish. I am loving Richmond, VA. The best part about the city of Richmond is that there is hardly any traffic!

Some exciting news is that I have

From the Advancement Office: In January, Paige Poe had a poem entitled “War Paint” published in Brave Voices Magazine.

2015 Need volunteer From the Advancement Office: Ohio field hockey senior forward Emma Eggleston garnered 2018 First Team All-Mid-American Conference Honors this past fall. This was the second time in her career achieving MAC Team honors. She was also Tyler Higby ‘15 57

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n October 10, 2018, 50 young alumni returned to campus to participate in the 13th Annual Alumni Leadership Day. Hosted by the Kinkaid Young Professionals Organization (KYPO), this day is designed to bring young alumni to campus to spend time with our high school seniors and to share their educational and career experiences as the students consider life after Kinkaid.

This year’s keynote speaker was Rebecca Harris ’09, Co-Founder and CEO of Purple, a media tech startup with a platform designed to make it easier to stay informed. Rebecca entered Kinkaid in the first grade.

While in high school, she ran cross-country for three years and played basketball, captaining the Varsity team her senior year. Rebecca was a Peer Mentor and was also very involved in Orchestra, Latin Club and Music Club. After Kinkaid, Rebecca attended The University of Connecticut, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Government in 2013. While Let your preconceived at UConn, Rebecca was a member of the Student Government Executive Affairs notions of what you think you should do Committee. She received a master’s degree or what options you in Entrepreneurial Journalism from the think are available City University of New York (CUNY) to you fall by the Graduate School of Journalism in 2015. wayside, and follow In 2015, Rebecca co-founded Purple with your own curiosity.” the husband of Kinkaid friend and alumna — Rebecca Harris ’09 Katie Carpenter Heimann ’09. At first, they covered the 2016 election via text message for tens of thousands of subscribers. Later, she built out Purple’s messaging platform to help other creators and publishers reach their audience through text messaging. As CEO of Purple, Rebecca spent her time working with media partners like The Skimm to help them develop and execute their editorial strategy on Purple’s platform.

Rebecca recently joined The Infatuation, an upstart restaurant recommendation service that recently purchased Zagat, as Product Manager.

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A key piece of Rebecca’s advice to the students was: “to ‘get lost’; to start wandering without a paved path, keeping an open mind and testing various opportunities that intrigue you. It is okay to not know

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what you want to do right away. Let your preconceived notions of what you think you should do or what options you think are available to you fall by the wayside, and follow your own curiosity. Ultimately, this journey will lead you to the career path that you are truly passionate about.” To hear Rebecca’s full speech, visit The Kinkaid School YouTube page.

After Rebecca’s speech, students attended three industry-specific panels led by the young alumni. Students chose from 11 industry-specific panels and were able to meet in small groups to better understand the diverse career paths students follow after graduating from Kinkaid. A question and answer session took place at the end of each panel. Each student received a brochure with the panelist bios and contact information. Students commented that this was one of their favorite days at Kinkaid; they appreciated the college advice and enjoyed learning about various career options and what those paths may look like. YAL Vice President Jack Mitchell ’19 commented, “Alumni Leadership Day is one of the more unique and engaging events of the year.

Hearing first-hand how different fields operate, and learning about the different paths and trajectories alumni took is extremely valuable.

I met so many interesting people, and saw how strong the Kinkaid alumni network really is.”

After the panel sessions, Alumni Leadership Day concluded with a roundtable luncheon in the Ogilvie Lobby, where students were able to talk with alumni one-on-one. KYPO President Maddy Foxx Moffitt ’06 remarked, “Alumni Leadership Day is such a great way for the seniors to connect with alumni on a professional level and allows them the opportunity to ask questions they may have about specific industries of interest. It’s also a great way to learn about different positions and hear more about the pros and cons in that field of work.”

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Arts & Entertainment: Moderator: Carroll Ison ’13 Katherine Cunningham ’09 Megan Ebel ’11 JJ Johnston ’95 Banking, Finance & Accounting: Moderator: Whitney Rape ’04 Drew Bloom ’09 Nader Daylami ’06 Carolyn Dyer ’13 Gracey Winters Howey ’07 Carrie Walker ’13 Energy/Oil & Gas: Moderator: Layne French ’09 Robert Campbell ’03 Brittany Sakowitz Kushner ’04 Byron Langford ’07 Mollie Schall ’01 Engineering: Moderator: Eleni Pappas ’04 Kevin Clegg ’08 Camille Panaccione Lozeron ’08 Entrepreneurship: Moderator: Franco Silva ’09 Krystal Carter ’01 Vince Grainger ’04 Rebecca Harris ’09 Rudy Wrabel ’03

Kevin Clegg ‘08, Camille Panaccione Lozeron ‘08, Eleni Pappas ‘04 on the Engineering panel

Law: Moderator: Andrew Klein ’08 Jennifer Vosko Caughey ’00 Valerie Grainger Henderson ’04 Zack Schneider ’04 Shea Henry Yoesel ’03 Marketing/Communications & Public Relations: Moderator: Michel Miller Mullett ’00 Rachel Applegate ’95 Carly Gray ’12 Julia Wood ’08

James Eilers ‘06, Blair Burke Foster ‘06, Nader Daylami ‘06

Military & Computer Science: Moderator: James Eilers ’06 Non Profits & Education: Moderator: Anne Hoppe Fried ’04 Xavier Beckwith ’08 Stephanie Wilkinson Compton ’05 Aisha Carter Crumbine ’95 Pablo Henning ’10 Real Estate: Moderator: Lexi Sakowitz ’07 Brittany Hansen Cassin ’00 Hollan Hensley ’09 Zac Hoffer ’07 Sasha Levine ’08 Ben Whitman ’92

Seniors Josh Williams ‘19, Darius Goodman ‘19, Joseph Wagnon ‘19

Valerie Grainger Henderson ‘04, Whitney Rape ‘04, Shea Henry Yoesel ‘03

Healthcare/Medicine: Moderator: Paige Garrison Wright ’02 Jeffrey Berman ’08 Mollie Gordon ’96 Laura Sheedy Pipkin ’01 Audrey Pyle ’08 Walker Short ’10 Carly Gray ‘12 and Carroll Ison ‘13

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Ashley Segal ’99 and wife Amanda with officiant Mark Schmulen ‘99

Austin Fatjo ‘07 and wife Ally

Clemmie Pierce Martin ‘12 and husband Maclean

Lauren Hogan Colton ‘10 and husband Andrew

Ashley Segal ’99 & Amanda Parenti May 26, 2018

Angel Gibbs ’08 & George Guillory III September 8, 2018

Nicole Daily ’11 & Brian Leventhal June 2, 2018

Ali Tucker ’09 & Mark Rapisarda September 22, 2018

Victoria Pappas ’07 & Aaron Bludorn June 2, 2018

Haley Berkman ’06 & Adam Karren October 6, 2018

Molly McConn & William Duncan ’10 June 9, 2018

Ana-Sofia Mariotto ’08 & Zachary Query October 6, 2018

Ally Wickman & Austin Fatjo ’07 June 9, 2018

Sherylle & Alex Diffey ’67 October 6, 2018

Lynne Marie Hash ’10 & Tony Rosado June 23, 2018

Lauren Hogan ’10 & Andrew Colton October 13, 2018

Clemmie Pierce ’12 & Maclean Martin June 23, 2018

Anna Beall ’03 & Jonathan Martin October 27, 2018

Bess Nelson & Ross Eastman ’14 June 30, 2018

Jill Selber Beilinson ’89 & Jason Handaly October 28, 2018

Mehwish Ismaily & Jeffrey Tang ’05 June 2018

Mia Brown & Edmond O’Suji ’09 November 3, 2018

Katie Lakenmacher & William Labanowski ’11 July 7, 2018

Auna Denson ’08 & Sam Freedman November 3, 2018

Amy Wynne ’09 & Thomas Galloway July 28, 2018

Kendall Bentsen ’10 & Jesse DuMond November 10, 2018

Ashley Prince ’07 & Jared Murphy August 11, 2018

Julia Wood ’08 & Dalton Harris December 1, 2018

Rachelle Weinstein & Justin Levine ’02 August 18, 2018

Avani Patel & Naresh Vissa ’07 December 14, 2018

Mary Catherine White ’04 & William Jones August 18, 2018

Emma Christopherson ’08 & Seth Elsenbrook December 15, 2018

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Alex Diffey ‘67 and wife Sherylle

Edmond O’Suji ’09 and wife Mia

Ross Eastman ‘14 and wife Bess

Amy Wynne Galloway ‘09 and husband Thomas

Ali Tucker Rapisarda ‘09 and husband Mark

Mary Catherine White Jones ‘04 and husband William

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Haley Berkman Karren ‘06 and husband Adam

Emma Christopherson Elsenbrook ‘08 and husband Seth

Kendall Bentsen ‘10 and husband Jesse DuMond

Anna Beall Martin ‘03 and husband Jonathan with family, including Kinkaid alumni Samuel Beall ‘00, Charley Beall ‘06 and Jessica Messier Beall ‘08

Jeffrey Tang ‘05 and wife Mehwish Ismaily

Auna Denson Freedman ‘08 and husband Sam

Victoria Pappas Bludorn ‘07 and husband Aaron

William Labanowski ‘11 and wife Katie

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Naresh Vissa ’07 and wife Avani

Nicole Daily Leventhal ‘11 and husband Brian

Julia Wood Harris ‘08 and husband Dalton

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Birth Announcements Penelope “Penny” Sofia Ducoff March 23, 2018 Nick Ducoff ’99 and wife Elizabeth

Margaret “Margot” Eleanor Gilliam July 1, 2018 Haley Lyons Gilliam ’06 and husband Matthew ’04

Oliver Burgess Wen April 22, 2018 Casson Wen ’06 and wife Nina

Juliette Morgan Maislos July 6, 2018 Steven Maislos ’90 and wife Danielle

Isla Grace Gordon May 23, 2018 Matt Gordon ’99 and wife Whitney

Patrick Max Ziccardi July 16, 2018 Lizzie Heaney Ziccardi ’03 and husband Andrew

Kate Sidney Leiman June 4, 2018 Tracy Gerger Leiman ’08 and husband Mark

Gregory “Brooks” Mendez July 17, 2018 Helena Davis Mendez ’03 and husband Greg

Mills Gardere Moore June 4, 2018 Todd Moore ’01 and wife Morgan

Robert “Wells” Weldon Falik July 23, 2018 Alan Falik ’01 and wife Raine

Penelope “Poppy” Forbes Creech and Caroline Vance Creech June 5, 2018 Jason Creech ’96 and wife Danielle Maxime Ann Gautier-Winther June 12, 2018 Andrew Gautier-Winther ’06 and wife Alyx Rhett Everett Montgomery June 12, 2018 Paige Nettles Montgomery ’06 and husband Ryan Raines Louise Thompson, June 15, 2018 Wakeford Thompson ’03 and wife Elizabeth Scarlett Grace Jones June 19, 2018 Ran Jones ’98 and wife Cristina Kennedy Louise King June 21, 2018 Collin King ’07 and wife Michele Reid Matthew Devlin June 24, 2018 Lizzie Buza Devlin ’00 and husband Ryan ’99 Isla Finn Bailey June 30, 2018 Joe Bailey Jr. ’00 and wife Alice Penelope Vargas June 2018 Frank Vargas ’03 and wife Rachael

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Levi Calvin French August 3, 2018 Layne French ’09 and wife Rebecca Asher George Pagani August 5, 2018 Elizabeth Campbell Pagani ’05 and husband Will Adelaide Rivers McBroom August 6, 2018 Courtland Crosswell McBroom ’05 and husband John Dan Alexander English V August 10, 2018 Dan English ’97 and wife Dianne Owen Christopher Tompkins August 15, 2018 Jenny Sangalis Tompkins ’07 and husband Rich Benjamin Highams Boyce August 20, 2018 Jordan Allison Boyce ’04 and husband Beaumont Isla Florence Pletcher August 2018 Hibba Itani Pletcher ’06 and husband Danny Finley Thea Quinlan September 7, 2018 Molly Bethel Quinlan ’03 and husband Marc Nolan Austin Burger September 11, 2018 Lindsay McMackin Burger ’97 and husband Austin ’97

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Sam Merritt Bender September 20, 2018 Liz Mims Bender ’02 and husband Steven

Ella James Gray November 6, 2018 Tommy Gray ’06 and wife Margaux

Leo Ford Falik September 27, 2018 Kevin Falik ’04 and wife Andrea

Frances Fenton Evans November 7, 2018 Allison Monteith Evans ’04 and husband Will ’03

Meier Beverly Helms September 30, 2018 Chuck Helms ’04 and wife Allison

Margaret Grace Rutherford November 9, 2018 Johnny Rutherford ’08 and wife Abby

Florence “Elizabeth” Nelson September 2018 Kristin Kirk Nelson ’96 and husband Ryan

Ella “Elle” Rose Feldman November 11, 2018 Kristen Wu ’02 and husband Mike Feldman

Piper Elizabeth Davidson October 1, 2018 Laura Haas Davidson ‘02 and husband Jamie

Robert “Rowan” Jones November 13, 2018 Ashley Springmeyer Jones ’04 and husband Stephen

Josephine Joy Sandler October 2, 2018 Joel Sandler ’06 and wife Camille

William Robert Cole November 16, 2018 Julia Coskey Cole ’05 and husband Andrew

Ava Lynn Kaas October 3, 2018 Ann-Marie Pouns Kaas ’03 and husband Alex

Hudson Robert Howey November 18, 2018 Gracey Winters Howey ’07 and husband Chris

Amalia Maria Dermatas October 8, 2018 Katina Pappas Dermatas ’01 and husband Nick

Hugo Charles Verly November 18, 2018 Nancy Franklin Verly ’02 and husband Thomas

Perry Jeanrose Nettles October 11, 2018 Kim Heine Nettles ’04 and husband Charlie ’05

“Lucy Chase” Morgan November 20, 2018 Philip Morgan ’05 and wife Katie

Bailey Kate Wiener October 15, 2018 Leslie Frankel Wiener ’03 and husband Gary

Josephine “Josie” Mead Fangman November 26, 2018 Kim Mead Fangman ’06 and husband Paul

Peyton William Powell October 18, 2018 Brooke Grisebaum Powell ’07 and husband Preston

Charles Douglas Cross III December 14, 2018 Jean Rose Clawater Cross ’03 and husband Chad

Asher David Sanchez-Turboff October 21, 2018 Alex Turboff ’96 and husband Mauricio Sanchez

Carson Elise Reckling December 17, 2018 Matthew Reckling ’08 and wife Caroline

Iris Olivia Van Steenburgh October 2018 Katherine Campbell Van Steenburgh ’01 and husband Philip

Charles “Charlie” Stephen Brock December 18, 2018 Kate Beasley Brock ’05 and husband Michael

Eli Alexander Moore November 4, 2018 Eddie Moore ’06 and wife Brittany Georgia Anne Richardson November 5, 2018 Will Richardson ’02 and wife Annie

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Cameron Blake Clegg December 30, 2018 Katherine Verity Clegg ’08 and husband Kevin ’08 Graham Louis Bernell December 2018 Brent Bernell ’03 and wife Kaitlin Please send them to Alumni Activities Manager Alexa Leach ’09 at alexa.leach@kinkaid.org *Baby and wedding announcements through December 31, 2018 included

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In Memory Susan Fantle ’65 (fs) passed away on May 29, 2018 from cancer.

George Cliff Cullen ’65 (fs) passed away on June 11, 2018.

After Kinkaid, he attended Lee High School and Texas A&I. Cliff was the founder of “Cliffs Old Fashioned Hamburgers” restaurants. He was a gourmet cook and sports enthusiast, and loved his border collies. He is preceded in death by his father George Cullen Jr. Cliff is survived by his mother Anne H. Cullen and brother Mark Cullen.

Anne Baker Cravens ’35 (fs) passed away on June 21, 2018.

She graduated from the University of Texas where she served as President of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. After her graduation in 1939, she and a group of friends sailed to Europe for a tour of the continent.

On their sail home, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U Boat. Anne and her companions survived a harrowing night in a lifeboat and were rescued by a passing freighter. Anne and husband Ruddy were founding members of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, where Anne served as President of the ECW. She was a member of numerous organizations in Houston. She is preceded in death by her parents Burke and Bennie Baker; her husband of 74 years, Rutherford “Ruddy”; sister Cary Baker Cadman ’28; brothers Burke Baker (fs) and Robert Baker; and grandson Rutherford Cravens IV. Anne is survived by her four children Cary Cravens Doggett; Rutherford R. Cravens III ’65 (Jane); Anne Cravens Bartley; Ben B. Cravens (Susan); eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Joseph Randall “Randy” Kaufhold ’78 (fs) passed away on July 12, 2018 after a too-brief battle with cancer.

He had a gentle nature and was talented and creative – there was nothing he couldn’t build or fix. He loved racecars and drag racing, his 1967 Pontiac GTO, dogs (especially his Rhodesian ridgeback Duke), Hawaii, sailing, hunting, guns, beautiful pieces of wood and woodworking. He had a green thumb and loved plumerias and gardening. He is preceded in death by his father Joe. Randy is survived by his wife Toni; mother Del Kaufhold; sisters Kathy Kaufhold Briggs ’73, Mary Lou Kaufhold Bradley ’74 and Barbie Kaufhold Pedregon ’76; nieces, nephew and great-nieces and nephews; and his mother-inlaw Kaye Campbell.

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Alexander DeGraaf Adams ’50 (fs) passed away on July 24, 2018. After Kinkaid, Alexander attended Lamar High School, Sewanee and The University of Texas where he graduated in 1954 with a BBA degree. While there he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. After returning from two years of service in the U.S. Army in 1956, he joined the insurance brokerage firm of Adams and Porter founded by his grandfather, and worked in the business for 35 years. Alexander became the youngest member of the downtown Rotary Club taking his dad’s classification of Marine Insurance. He was a member of several organizations, a trustee of The Star of Hope and a trustee for KHCB Christian Radio. He was actively involved in the expansion of the news stations to other parts of Texas and Louisiana whereby Christ-centered broadcasting can be heard in many other cities. Adams was active in Bethel Church where he served one time as deacon, had a long-time interest in many Christian ministries such as Campus Crusade for Christ, and taught in the summer Bible Program for youth at Dad’s Club YMCA. He is preceded in death by his parents Mary and Norman Adams and his wife of 59 years, Paula Adams.

Alexander is survived by his sons Samuel Adams ’82 (Julie) and Matthew Adams ’84 (fs) (Kendall); eight grandchildren, including Walker Adams ’14 (fs); brothers Norman Adams ’51 (fs) and Maurice Adams ’56 (Barbara); and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Dr. Lee Lyman Dewey Tuttle Jr. ’49 passed away on July 26, 2018. He attended Dartmouth College and Baylor College of Medicine. Lee devoted his professional life to the practice of medicine.

He was a distinguished general thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, and he left an indelible impact on not only his family, but also on countless physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients throughout the community. Early on, he was a rotating intern at Colorado General Hospital, a surgical resident at Baylor affiliated hospitals and an Intern, Captain and Chief of Surgery at the 350th United States Air Force Hospital. Board certified in general, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Lee was a Clinical Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and later served as the Deputy Chief of Surgery at The Methodist Hospital from 1994 until his retirement in July 2001. He was a member of numerous medical organizations, and was the recipient of the Distinguished Houston Surgeon Award presented by the Houston Surgical Society in 2007. Lee was proud to be a second-generation physician at The Methodist

Hospital, as his father Dr. Dewey Tuttle was also a longtime staff member who served as Chief of Surgery at The Methodist Hospital.

His faith was a foundational part of his life and he was a longtime member of St. John the Divine Episcopal Church. Lee served on the Kinkaid Alumni Association Board from 2004 – 2008, and served as President during the 2007 – 2008 school year. He is preceded in death by his parents Dr. Lee Lyman Dewey Tuttle and Vita Daniels Tuttle and his son Lee Lyman Dewey Tuttle III “Trey”. Lee is survived by his wife of 64 years, Jean Griffey Tuttle ’53 (fs); daughters Gwyn Tuttle Insani ’75 (fs), Susan Tuttle Lummis ’76 (David), Jennifer Tuttle Arnold ’78 and Emily Tuttle Wilde ’80 (Carlton); 12 grandchildren, including Rice Lummis ’04, Helen Lummis ’05, Carlton Wilde ’07, Lee Wilde ’08, Jeanie Arnold ’09, David Arnold ’11, Adelaide Lummis ’11, Will Wilde ’12 and Georgia Arnold ’15; five great-grandsons; sister Yvonne Tuttle Streit (David); and many cousins, nieces, nephews and their children.

Former Upper School English Teacher Patricia Aldrich Muske passed away on August 1, 2018. She graduated from Southern Methodist University where she was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and then taught at Katy High School and Kinkaid. Patricia taught at Kinkaid from from 1967 - January 1976.

Later, she took over management of the Muske Ranch in Pattison, TX. Former Trustee Dr. Allen Talbot “Mac” McInnes, PhD passed away on August 11, 2018. A 1955 graduate of San Jacinto (now Bellaire) High School, he received a doctorate in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin, where he also earned both a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration. Additionally, he held an advanced management degree from Harvard University. Allen served as dean of the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University from 2001 – 2012. During his tenure as dean, the college achieved many milestones including the completion of a state-of-the-art business building, which is one of the premier business school facilities in the State of Texas. ‘The Dean’ championed many academic endeavors at Texas Tech, but most notably establishing a Career Management Center, an Alumni Advisory Council and various entrepreneurial, leadership, health organization management, JD-MBA and energy commerce programs at the Rawls College of Business. Prior to his role as dean, Allen had a varied 40+ year career across many facets of the energy and agricultural industries. He spent more than 30 years at

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Tenneco Inc. in both Houston and Bakersfield, CA (Tenneco West), eventually serving as Executive Vice-President and a member of the board of directors. He was President, Chairman and CEO of TGC, a seismic acquisition company; President and CEO of TETRA Technologies, Inc. in the Woodlands, TX; and CEO of Chase Packaging, Inc. based in Portland, OR. Most recently, Allen served on the board of directors of Dawson, the largest land-based geophysical company in North America. As a lifelong advocate for education and the arts, he served as a member of the Kinkaid board of trustees, the board of trustees of Thunderbird School of Global Management and the advisory council of the business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he served as a board member of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum. Allen is preceded in death by his parents Vera and Miles McInnes and his son Miles McInnes ’90 (fs). He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Missy; his brother Roger; his children Lisa McInnes ’79 (fs), Laurie McInnes Hughes ’81 (fs) (Steve), Lance McInnes ’84 (Katrina), Michael McInnes ’97 (Randi) and John McInnes ’98 (Deborah); and his 11 grandchildren, including Mollie ’30 and Annie Cate ’32.

Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Lanier ’76 (fs) passed away on August 12, 2018 after a battle with breast cancer.

Elizabeth began her piano career at age five, and by age nine, she and her sister performed the piano at Jones Hall in a recorded performance of the Houston Music Festival. She was later accepted at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, followed by the University of Hawaii, where she studied under the tutelage of internationally recognized Dr. Edward Shipwright.

During her first year, she received the highest award given for piano performance. The Lanier family has a long history of musically-inclined ancestry, and the musical legacy continues with Elizabeth’s son Brent who attends HSPVA. She is preceded in death by her parents, former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier and his wife Liz. Elizabeth is survived by her only child Jonathan Brent Campbell Jr.; her sister Holly Lanier ’78; her brothers Clay Lanier (Donna), Fred Lanier and Gus Lanier ’80; five nieces and nephews; and numerous extended family members.

Robert Stuart Koelsch ’78 passed away unexpectedly on September 17, 2018. He attended River Oaks Elementary School and then Kinkaid. For the first two years of college he was a student at The University of Virginia and a member of Phi Delta Theta. He received his B.A. degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982. Following graduation, he

worked in the Texas legislature for the Lieutenant Governor before moving to Washington, DC to serve on the staff of Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Upon marriage he returned to Houston where he received his law degree with honors from South Texas College of Law and served as an editor on the Law Review. After working for the Harris County District Attorney’s office, he practiced law first in Houston and then in Austin. For the past 10 years while working in Austin, Robert lived at Lago Vista on Lake Travis where St. Peter’s Episcopal Church meant very much to him.

Robert was a member of several historical organizations and clubs in Texas. He is preceded in death by his father Rear Admiral Philip Carleton Koelsch. Robert is survived by his two sons Philip Koelsch ’11 (fs) and Halbert Koelsch; sister Frances Koelsch ’85 (John Jeffries); a nephew; mother Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer ’49 (James); and two step-sisters Ann U. Stout (Tim) and Elizabeth Ulmer (Jonathan Graham).

Allison Semmes Joy ’50 (fs) passed away on October 30, 2018. She attended Kinkaid, but with her father’s encouragement, dropped out at age 16 to devote herself to art. Despite her lack of formal education, Allison was a voracious reader. Nutrition, science and alternative medicine were lifelong passions. Allison loved adventure and the natural world, and had an eye for beauty. Her natural artistic talent was inherited from her father. Sought after as a portrait artist, Allison brought her subjects to life in oil and pastels. Allison is preceded in death by her parents Lelia and Robert Joy and her sister Nina Joy. She is survived by sister Virginia “Ginny” Joy Gutwillig ’58; two nephews; and many cousins and extended family members.

Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton ’62 (fs) passed away on November 9, 2018.

She attended Kinkaid from Kindergarten through 10th Grade, and Lamar High School through graduation in 1962. Dorothy Knox graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, PA in 1966 and earned a master’s degree in English from The University of Texas at Austin in 1968. Dorothy Knox was an involved member of many organizations, and she and husband Tom were active members of Christ Church Cathedral, where she was President of the Ladies Parish Association. Dorothy Knox connected deeply to her family’s and community’s histories, and was a member of multiple historical organizations. She took pride in her descent from many original Texas settlers, including her Harris relatives, whom the Texas government named Harris County after.

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and spearheaded the major book project that resulted in Houston’s Forgotten Heritage: Landscape, Houses, Interiors, 1824-1914. She also authored The Houston Club and Its City: One Hundred Years. Dorothy Knox enjoyed all of the performing arts in Houston, and was an avid world traveler. Dorothy Knox is preceded in death by her parents Dorothy Howe Dupree and Knox Howe and her husband Thomas W. Houghton. She is survived by her daughters Rowena Houghton Dasch (Kevin) and Adele Houghton (Fernando Langenscheidt); brother Milton Howe ’65 (fs) (Jane); nephews Knox Howe ’04 (fs) and Alex Howe ’06 (fs); and four grandchildren.

Virginia Elizabeth Jago Elder ’49 (fs) passed away on November 21, 2018. After attending Kinkaid, she graduated from St. Mary’s Hall in San Antonio, and studied at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She loved all sports, especially enjoying tennis and golf throughout her life. Virginia was also an avid rider who bred and raced thoroughbred horses in several states, including Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana and Indiana. She was a member of various clubs in Texas. Virginia is preceded in death by her parents Arthur and Olwen Davies Jago; her husband John William Elder; and son Charles (Nick) Jago Elder. She is survived by four nieces and nephews and four godchildren.

Jessica Bland Clark ’61 passed away on December 3, 2018. She earned her Master of Education from the University of Houston. Jessica would go on to be a teacher and later a job counselor, where she helped people find better jobs and make sound career choices. She enjoyed painting landscapes and reading historical novels, and always loved having pets, particularly dogs. She is preceded in death by her parents. Jessica is survived by her son Joseph Grady Clark; two sisters Winnifred Clark Wackman ’65 (fs) and Janice Clark Kellogg ’68 (fs); and a niece, nephew, great-nephew and great-nieces.

Susan Davis Johnson ’65 passed away on December 13, 2018. Susan worked in the Kinkaid Advancement Office from 1989 – 1994. After raising her family in Houston, she moved to Newport Beach, CA. She founded Susan’s Healthy Gourmet, a nutritious meal-delivery service 20+ years ago, and ran the company with her daughter. Susan is survived by her son John Johnson ’88 (Mary); daughter Kerry Johnson Anthony ’91; brother Ken Davis ’72; step-sister Terry Davis Harrison ’67; multiple grandchildren, including Helena Johnson ’19 and Ben Johnson ’21 (fs); multiple nieces and nephews who attended Kinkaid; and many other family members.

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Robert M. Purdie ’49 passed away on December 16, 2018. Robert graduated with a BA from Baylor University in 1953. In 1954, Robert attended The University of Texas. Joining the U.S. Army in 1955, he served as bacteriologist at Ft. Lewis, WA. He then attended the University of Houston graduating in 1960, BSIE. Robert worked in the aerospace program for NASA and for Boeing. After returning to Houston in 1975, Robert became an independent landman, active in lignite leasing in Rusk and Fayette counties.

He is preceded in death by his parents Billie and Dr. Robert Purdie and his brother Burke Purdie ’50. Robert is survived by his sister Patricia Purdie ’47; sister in-law Betty Ann Purdie; and nephews Burke Purdie ’81 (Jennifer) and David Purdie ’84 (fs).

Garland “Sandy” Howard Turner ’73 passed away on December 20, 2018 after a battle with cancer. She was a “Lifer” at Kinkaid and then attended Southwestern University. She and her first husband of 40 years Bill Turner set out on an eight-year adventure aboard their boat “Garland” in 1975. They sailed the Chesapeake, Bahamas and every island in the Caribbean to Venezuela.

Sandy was the Kinkaid Class of 1973 Correspondent for many years. She kept her class connected and in touch, and planned a 40-year reunion that really brought the class together. Sandy is preceded in death by her parents Joyce and Frank Howard and her brother George B. Howard. She is survived by her sons William Turner (Kathleen) and George Turner and her partner David Taylor.

Former Cooney Fellow Ike McGowan Crews passed away unexpectedly on December 30, 2018. He graduated from St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas in 2008, where he excelled in wrestling and football. After graduating high school, he spent a year completing an outdoor survival course in Utah, teaching English and studying archaeology in Peru, farming bananas in Australia and traveling through Europe and Japan, among other adventures. He graduated from Davidson College in 2013 with an AB degree in History and a minor in Anthropology. Ike was a four-year member of the Davidson D-1 Varsity Wrestling team. He also earned a Master of International Affairs from George Washington University in 2017. Ike had recently returned to St. Marks as a sixth grade Humanities teacher and coached both wrestling and football. Last school year he worked at Kinkaid as the Cooney Fellow, where he taught history and coached wrestling, football and lacrosse. Before giving in to his calling to serve others in the classroom and on the field, Ike was a proud member of Pete Sessions’ Washington, DC Congressional staff. Ike often talked of one day running for political office. He was passionate about music, specifically classic rock. He was extremely talented on the guitar, acoustic and air guitar 66

alike. He loved to exercise and explore the wilderness; he considered himself a professional ninja instructor; and he was fluent in Arabic. Ike is survived by his mother Patti Cook Crews; father and stepmother Ken and Kathiann Crews; sisters Kelly Crews Dayton, Carter Crews and Cameron Crews; and a nephew.

Former Trustee Ralph Sturges O’Connor passed away on December 30, 2018. Born in Pasadena, CA, he attended Manhasset High School in Long Island, NY and graduated from New Hampton Preparatory School. He enlisted in the Air Cadet Program in November 1943. Following his discharge from the Army Air Corps in 1946, he attended The Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1951 with a degree in Biology.

Following graduation, he moved to Sour Lake, TX and began his oil and gas career as a roustabout for Highland Oil Company, where he worked his way up becoming President and CEO of the Highland Oil Company in 1964. He left Highland Resources in 1987 to start his own firm, Ralph S. O’Connor & Associates. In addition to his oil and gas exploration and real estate activities, he served as a director of numerous companies, including Texas Eastern Transmission Company, Panhandle Eastern Corporation, First City National Bancorporation and First Commercial Corporation. Ralph had a great interest in education at all levels, as well as Houston and the arts. He served as a trustee or director of Kinkaid, Rice University, The Johns Hopkins University, Texas Southern University, Episcopal High School, Oldfields School, The Marian and Speros Martel Foundation, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Texas Children’s Hospital and as Chairman of Hermann Hospital.

Ralph also enjoyed traveling. He is preceded in death by his parents; brothers Thomas and John; sister Connaught; and Maconda Brown O’Connor ’48 (fs), mother of his children. Ralph is survived by his wife Becky Gorham O’Connor; four children George O’Connor ’70 (fs) (Lynn), Thomas “Toby” O’Connor ’73 (fs) (Barbie), Nancy O’Connor Abendshein ’76 (fs) (Butch) and John O’Connor ’79 (fs) (Sarah); stepchildren David Gorham and Laura Gorham; nine grandchildren, including Ralph Abendshein ’05 (fs); four great-grandchildren; and sister Edith Pashayan.

Harold “Hal” Lee Trentham Jr. ’68 passed away on January 3, 2019 after a long battle with dementia. An accomplished athlete, he accepted a scholarship from the University of Virginia to play football. After playing four years at UVA, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies. He then immersed himself in the music scene he loved so much at the popular Back Alley Disc record shop in The Fan District.

He lived in Richmond, VA before eventually settling in Midlothian, VA. He is preceeded in death by his parents Marjorie Valentine and

Harold Trentham. He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Penny Ausherman Trentham; son Austin Trentham (Stephanie); daughter Colleen Trentham; and one grandson; brother Gary Trentham and sister Margaret Trentham Hunter.

Facilities Staff Member Rosa Melida Hernandez passed away on January 5, 2019. She was born in Agua Blanca, Honduras.

Rosa started working at Kinkaid in September 2016. She was admired by the Kinkaid community for her excellent work, her constant smile and positive attitude. She is survived by her husband Miguel Garcia; her parents Victor Hernandez and Andrea Quiroz; her children Michael, Andrea and Ashley Garcia; her brother Victor Hernandez; and her sister Lilian Hernandez; and other family members.

Former Lower School Teacher Mauvirine Sorrell passed away on January 9, 2019. She graduated from Baylor University and was a school teacher throughout her life in San Antonio, Dallas and in Houston at Kinkaid. She taught at Kinkaid from 1970 - 1975. She was active in her church her whole life at South Main Baptist, First Baptist Conroe and Tallowood Baptist.

Mauvirine is preceded in death by her parents Edith and Hubert Barr; her husband Sam Sorrell; and daughter Nancy Sorrell Muirhead. She is survived by her two sons Mark Sorrell ’74 (Laura) and Scott Sorrell ’78 (Jan); five grandchildren, including Katherine Sorrell ’02 and Stephen Sorrell ’15; and her son-in-law Joe Muirhead.

Nancy Ellen Cooper ’65 passed away on January 12, 2019 due to a brain tumor that had been diagnosed last August. Born in Rockford, IL, she grew up in Houston after her father John H. Cooper became Headmaster at Kinkaid. Her mother Dorothy Rice Cooper resumed teaching Latin at Kinkaid after raising her children. Nancy graduated in 1969 from Vanderbilt University. Nancy and her husband Andy lived in California, New Jersey and Alabama, with Nancy working much of the time in insurance while Andy was an engineer in the space program, college professor and IT consultant. Nancy and Andy returned to Andy’s childhood home in the St. Matthews neighborhood of Louisville, KY in 2005. In recent years, Nancy divided her time between caring for her daughter in Louisville and spending time at the family farm in Otisco, IN. Nancy is preceded in death by her parents John and Dorothy Cooper and her brother John Cooper ’55. She is survived by her husband Andrew W. Dozier; her children Ashley Dozier (John Peck) and Cooper Dozier; her sisters Anne Cooper ’59, Susan Cooper ’62 (Bob Gaudet) and Dorothy Cooper ’71 (fs); her brothers Alan Cooper ’57 (Susan) and Larry Cooper ’67 (Becky); sister-in-law Susan Dozier * Obituaries through February 1, 2019 included

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(Joel Porter); and many cousins and special nieces and nephews.

Aubrey Barnes Calvin ’58 (fs) passed away on January 22, 2019 after a 35-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Aubrey graduated from Lamar High School and went on to study at Washington and Lee University and then Rice University, where he earned his BA degree in history in 1962. He attended The University of Texas School of Law and received his LLB in 1965. Aubrey fulfilled three years of active military duty as a JAG officer in the United States Air Force at Minot Air Force Base, ND before returning to Houston in 1969 to practice law. During his 40-year career, Aubrey worked in various Houston firms before founding his own firm with partners. Aubrey was active in civic and cultural affairs throughout his adult life. He was a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, where he served as a Stephen Minister for many years. Aubrey was President and Chairman of Young Audiences, Inc. of Houston, President and Chairman of The Netherlands-Texas Cultural Exchange Program and was active with the Boy Scouts for a number of years. He made a lasting impact on the Houston Area Parkinson Society (HAPS) through his many years of dedication to that organization, including his service as President of the Board. Aubrey had a deep love of nature. He loved camping, canoeing, gardening, hunting, fishing and boating. He was a member of Port Bay Hunting and Fishing Club

in Rockport, TX for two decades. He was also an avid student of history, and reading, cooking, traveling and photography were among his many hobbies. He is preceded in death by his parents Mary Elizabeth and Elvis Aubrey Calvin. Aubrey is survived by his wife of 48 years, Alice Red Calvin; his daughter Claire Calvin (Matthew Giegengack); his son Edward “Ted” Calvin (Robyn); six grandchildren; sister Harriet Calvin Latimer ’52 (Truett); and two nephews.

Former Cafeteria Employee Margaret Keith passed away on January 29, 2019. She worked at Kinkaid from 2006 – 2009. She was well known for her sense of humor and joyful nature. Margaret is survived by her husband Herman Keith, who taught at Kinkaid as an Upper School Physics Teacher from 1990-2009, and continues to teach in the Engineering, Math, Science Institute (EMSI) each summer at Kinkaid.

John Lamar Riley III ’77 passed away on January 29, 2019 after a battle with cancer.

He attended Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA and The University of Texas at Austin. John inherited his love for animals and training hunting dogs from his father. This enthusiasm became his life-long passion and led to a career as a hunting guide where he became very successful and was well known on all South Texas ranches. He inherited his love for horses and riding from his

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grandmother. He is preceded in death by his father John Lamar Riley Jr. John is survived by his mother Vera Smith Brown; sister Vera Jan Riley ’75; brother James Patrick Riley DDS; and other relatives.

Former Trustee William R. Lloyd Jr. passed away on February 1, 2019. During World War II he proudly served as a pilot in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

“W.R.,” as he was often called, graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1948. After living in Midland for a brief time, he and wife Margene moved to Houston. W.R. was involved in real estate investments for over 50 years and was privileged to be associated with Leslie Appelt and many others. He served on several boards including one that involved children with special needs and another one that focused on education. W.R. was a trustee for the West Endowment and for Kinkaid. He was also a member of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church where he served on the vestry. W.R. is preceded in death by his parents Virginia and William R. Lloyd and his sister Mary Virginia Lloyd. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Margene West Lloyd ’47; children Alice Lloyd McBee ’70 (fs), Marian “Mimi” Lloyd ’71 (fs), William “Bill” Lloyd ’74 (fs) (Leah) and Ellen Lloyd Cummins ’77 (Jim ’76 (fs)); and five grandchildren, including Jim Cummins ’07 (Mary Katherine ’08), William Cummins ’10 (Sloan ’11) and Kristen Cummins ’14.

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