Grant Lowe ’14 teaches freshman language arts in the town
Cassidy Bires ’10 and Sean Kraus ’09—September 18, 2015
Ellen Jackson Petrila ’12 and Ben Bowers Petrila ’12—September 26, 2015 LEFT TO RIGHT: Elizabeth Woodyard Johnson ’13, Christopher Johnson ’11, Jonathan Pierce-Ruhland ’11, Harley Jackson ’04, Ellen Jackson Petrila ’12, Benjamin Bowers Petrila ’12, James Petrila ’75, Kate Haslem ’13. Photo by Carrie Swails.
Jarvis ’09 and is in her second year of medical school at the University of Illinois in Rockford. ❯ Christina Warner has spent the past two years abroad, working in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shanghai, China, as a management associate with an international trading firm. Next year, she will be part of the Duke Fuqua CC-MBA Class of 2017. ❯ Anne Horrell and David Fundakowski ’11 were married on October 3, 2015, in Kansas City, Missouri. ❯ Brittany Prague is a steamfitter for the Philadelphia Union 420 and is becoming a certified welder. She is newly engaged to Peter Michener. ❯ John Williams left his career in journalism early last year, exploring a future in sustainable produce farming in central Illinois. After an exciting first year working for farms near Watseka and Champaign, he looks forward to a new position at PrairiErth Farm, south of Bloomington, as the organic farm’s post-harvest coordinator. ❯ Ellen Ramsey was promoted to associate director of eligibility services at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Her new position focuses on employee development and performance. ❯ Tory Kassabaum married Tony Meyer ’09 in August. They now live in Columbia, Missouri. ❯ Gillian McKiernan and Kira Schultz teach English in Suwon, South Korea. ❯ Ellen Jackson and Ben Bowers were married in September in Colorado. ❯ Amanda Wollrab Archer will graduate with an MBA from the University of Iowa in May. She spent some time in China in January as part of the university’s global learning program. ❯ Rebekah Bally enjoys her new job helping to transform health and healthcare as facilitation and improvement specialist for Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation. ❯ Karl Bair and Audra Adolph ’09 still rock and roll in Music City, saving lives every day. Their futures are brighter than ever...y’all! ❯ Sara Koehnke spent 2015 traveling the world for International Triathlon Union Paratriathlon. She competed in Yokohama, Japan; Iseo, Italy; Besançon, France; Detroit, Michigan; Austin, Texas; Edmonton, Canada; and Chicago, Illinois. She placed third in the Italy and Canada ITU Paratriathlon events,
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and second place in the ITU para-open event. She is excited to continue to travel, work hard, and see how low she can get her personal best time to be. She still has her silly little fuzzbutt of a bird, Kio. ❯ Ed Davis finished his master’s degree at Roosevelt University and is officially a Master of Music. Earlier this year, he received a commission to write a new work for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Children’s Chorus, which was performed in May and was featured on the same program as Yo-Yo Ma! He recently finished applying to DMA programs. Next fall, he hopes to be on his way to becoming Dr. Davis. Class Correspondent: Aparna Kumar aparna.kumar05@gmail.com
2013 Class Correspondents: Tina Shuey and Brittany Wisniewski knoxco2013@gmail.com
2014 Olivia Louko moved to Seattle to accept a position with Americorps, which will begin in the fall. ❯ Esther Farler-Westphal works for Fifth Third Bank and has moved to New York City for four-month project. ❯ John Bergholz lives in Chicago (with Mara Bowdy ’13) and works as a copywriter at Magnani Continuum Marketing. ❯ Grant and Paige Anderson Lowe moved to the Seattle area in July. Paige works at a small software consulting company, and Grant teaches freshman language arts in the town where they filmed the show Twin Peaks. They both like it better than Pennsylvania (sorry, Pennsylvania). ❯ Jess Ranard lives in Washington, D.C., with partner Nat Baldino ’15. She works during the day as a dog walker/pet sitter and the evenings at a very popular and fun D.C. bookstore called Kramerbooks. Jess continues to explore D.C., volunteer for All Souls Unitarian Church, and meet lots of fun and cool folks in her free time. Class Correspondents: Esther Farler-Westphal and Natalia Binkowski Knoxnotes2014@gmail.com
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Forrest Marie Linsell works full time at an LGBTQIA community and resource center. ❯ Olaloye Oyedotun is a law student at the University of Leicester. He is the vice president of strategic alliances in the the Leicester Information Technology Law Society. He intends to graduate in June 2017. ❯ Micaela Rodriguez currently attends Northern Illinois University, working on a master’s degree in accounting science. She also works in the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Development as a graduate research assistant. ❯ Kayla Anderson is still in Galesburg, bartending at a Soangetaha Country Club while she decides on graduate schools. ❯ Rebecca Duffy works for Cardinal Health, a Fortune 500 company that distributes medical supplies to hospitals around the world, as a senior specialist field service representative. ❯ Matt Klich has run Clik Entertainment full-time as its president since graduation. He has increased its customer base, hired more workers, and expanded its equipment inventory. ❯ Nesha Harper currently lives in St. Louis with boyfriend Ryan Hoffman ’13 and attends graduate school at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, pursuing a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She also works as a senior research assistant at school and an overnight instructor at the Saint Louis Zoo. ❯ Roman Magid attends medical school at Midwestern University in Chicago ❯ After graduation, Eve Martinez began a Ph.D. program in chemistry at Purdue University, working under Dr. Suzanne Bart, and is researching in an organometallic/inorganic group. ❯ Brian Tanaka is an organist and accompanist for Grace Presbyterian Church in Temple, Texas. He currently works with the choir director, Chelsea Stern, who was on the hymnal committee that developed the recently released Presbyterian hymnal, Glory to God. ❯ Linda Kim works at Glass Lyre Press, a small, independent poetry publishing house near her hometown of Glenview, Illinois, as an associate editor. She