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consumers. You can check out some examples here: DTproductions.com. Andrew also got engaged in January.
Kinkaid Tennis Coach Anne Buckingham and Andrew GautierWinther ‘06 teamed to win the Mixed-Doubles Championship at River Oaks Country Club.
Grady Li is currently working at Oxy on their crude trading floor as a market analyst, so he wouldn’t mind networking with other O&G people. He doesn’t play ball so much these days, but picked up Muay Thai and boxing just for fun. He still stays in touch with Natalia Bailey, Shannon Keels and Jodie Jackson. Ben Messier is engaged to a girl he met while getting his MBA at Rice and is doing investment banking at Credit Suisse in Houston. Paige Nettles Montgomery and her husband Ryan are proud parents to their 11-month-old son Ryan Jr. They recently celebrated their third anniversary and love living in Fort Worth! Eddie Moore lives in Dallas with his wife Brittany. He continues to work as an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and on his golf game during his spare time. Elise Mossy just moved home to Houston from up East and is excited to be reunited with family and friends. She plans to launch an interior design company for her talented mother by the end of the year. After four years of working in finance, Pete Peterson got married last July, moved to Nashville and is now working as CFO of Tandum, an event ticketing startup.
Captain Jonathan Powell ‘06 and Captain Hannah Rosenthal ‘06 served in Afghanistan at the same time and have both now returned safely to the U.S.
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Jonathan Powell is a company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division’s apache attack helicopter battalion. He is currently deployed to Jalabad, Afghanistan. He ran into Hannah Rosenthal in October in Bagram, Afghanistan. She is currently serving as the intelligence officer-in-charge for one of the 82nd Airborne Division’s parachute infantry regiments. Stephen Reckling recently finished working in Pennsylvania for Stallion Oilfield Services and returned to Houston to work at PPHB Investment Bank starting in May. He plans to pursue his MBA at Rice this fall. Emily Schreiber is a Development Officer at Houston Grand Opera, where she has been working with Annual Fund donors for almost two years. She has just finished her provisional year as a member of The Junior League of Houston. Last year, Emily bought her first home, where she lives happily with her chihuahua Mr. Flaco. Nina and Casson Wen were married May 31, 2014 and celebrated their one-year anniversary this year. After spending the past few years in Boston, Virginia Simmons Williams and her husband Cramer will be moving to Washington, DC, in mid-October. Until then, they will be traveling around Europe. Feel free to send them destination suggestions. Jennifer Williamson is still living in New York and loving it. She works for New York magazine in their Business Development and Strategy Department and travels back to Texas whenever she can! Right now Anah Hanson Witter and her husband Lysle are living in NYC, and they are expecting a baby girl this August! They moved there in the fall for his job. Anah and Lysle are hoping to be back in Houston in the next couple of years. Andrew Wright is currently living in Portland, Maine. He traveled to Tanzania in 2014 and successfully climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Best wishes for a lifetime of love and happiness to Ford Beckham and Bell Blakemore, Brooke Grisebaum and Preston Powell, Jenny Sangalis and Rich Tompkins and Gracey Winters and Chris Howey – all recently engaged to be married! Erin Atmar Beckwith opened a new photography studio in the Washington Heights area where she photographs her newborn clients! Erin also has her own photography business through which she shoots maternity, birth, newborns and families. Her most exciting news is that she and husband John Beckwith welcomed a baby girl, Miller Marie Beckwith, in January. Faryan Jalalabadi graduates this summer with his M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and will start his residency training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston at the Texas Medical Center. Tany Jeter Klaes and husband Chaz recently moved to a new house in Southampton and are expecting their first baby (a girl!) in September 2015. Tany is also still enjoying her work in special events. Recently accepted to Columbia Business School with a focus in social enterprise, Leila Ladjevardian is currently working at Global Poverty Project on the business development team for public and private partnerships. Leila is still very much involved with UNICEF’s Next Generation: New York Steering Committee and is hosting the third annual passive beneficiary event this summer in support of NextGen with 350 influential attendees to raise funds for the Nepal tragedy. She’ll be traveling to Europe this summer before beginning at Columbia in the fall.
Lauren Lestin Atlanta, Georgia lflestin@gmail.com
Nelson Monteith was recently married to Mary Davis Monteith and will be graduating from Acton MBA in June. Julie Mackay Petry is currently living in Montreal, Quebec, where her husband Jeff played for the Montreal Canadians in the Stanley Cup playoffs. They have had quite the year moving across Canada from Edmonton to Montreal but are enjoying the adventure! After hockey season is over, the two will move back to their home in Michigan for the summer. Julie and Jeff are also expecting their first child in August!
Eight years after high school graduation, the Class of 2007 has now traveled the world, completed graduate school with impressive degrees and highest honors, built extraordinary careers and developed lifelong personal relationships. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments, and please continue to stay in touch!
Celebrating his third anniversary at Fritsche Anderson Realty Partners this summer, Sam Pouns is living in Houston and coaching at Post Oak Little League during the springtime. He has plans to travel to San Diego this summer with fellow Kinkaid alums. Elizabeth Robinson was recently hired as the marketing manager for the Greater Houston Market at PwC.
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A casting talent coordinator for Unscripted Formated TV series for a variety of networks, Lexi Sakowitz is currently casting, producing and coordinating five TV series and a pilot for ABC, FOX, TLC, BRAVO and NBC networks. She recently completed a nationwide open casting call in seven cities for a new, up-and-coming NBC show slated for the fall line-up as “the most highly anticipated of the season.” Clare Schirrmeister is moving to New York to attend graduate school for her masters of public administration at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Andrew Schulte was married in March to Ashley Schulte, and currently works as an associate in mergers & acquisitions and capital markets at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston. Jack Ellison Simmons was born on October 29, 2014, to William Simmons and wife Paige. The three currently live in Houston and will be relocating to Boston in the fall where William will begin the Harvard Business School MBA Program. Carlton Wilde graduated law school in May 2014, passed the Bar and began work in the trial section at Bracewell & Giuliani focusing on intellectual property and environmental litigation. He is getting married on July 25, 2015, to Jordan Jenkins, a teacher at KIPP Northeast. Gracey Winters accepted a new job as a financial reporting analyst at Fieldwood Energy in Houston and is getting married to Chris Howey on September 12, 2015. I recently accepted a marketing position in Atlanta with real estate development firm Oliver McMillan at a new luxury retail and restaurant center named Buckhead Atlanta.
2008 Kirby Allison New York, New York kallison22@gmail.com Mason Bashaw Houston, Texas Mason.bashaw@mac.com
2009 Alanna McAuley Seattle, Washington armcauley75@gmail.com Philip Angelides is working as a researcher for the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House in London, England. His work is focused on global health governance and health in conflict areas, and most recently has focused on the
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