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and accounting at fuel facilities, power reactors, research reactors, and independent-spent fuel storage facilities. Charlotte Lee Morris, mother of Gregory Morris and sister of the late David Benjamin ’35, passed away April 20, 2015.
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Lisa Danielson Gregor and her husband, Joe, own and operate the Church Street Brewing Company near Chicago. Dianna Green Lester has been a licensed Christian minister and evangelist since 1997 and has worked since 2004 at the New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation/Bellevue Hospital as a secretary in the EEG lab and medicine/neurology department. Denise Henderson Edwards is principal of Myra Linn Elementary School in Riverside, California. She successfully defended her dissertation for her doctor of education degree from La Sierra University.
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Dave Holzwarth, who is now in his 26th year on the Mercersburg faculty, also plays in local Americana bands Wings That Buzz and Pale Barn Ghosts. A video by the Pale Barn Ghosts (which featured Dave playing bass while strapped to a gurney inside an ambulance) was featured online as part of a contest for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts last winter. Hank Katzen and his wife, Marcie, celebrated two graduations in May: their son Malcolm from Penn State University and their son Mason from Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida. Hank sends best wishes to all. Mark Talbott’s father, Douglas, passed away October 18, 2014.
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Steven Lynch is a reference librarian at the Department of the Navy Library within the Naval History and Heritage Command at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
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Mercersburg roommates Nancy Corwin Sanders and Jamie Saucer Holland recently reunited for the first time in 30 years in New York City.
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Ray Liddy, a deputy attorney general for the State of California, was appointed to the
Hector Leal ’90 (left) and his wife, Paulina, connected with his Mercersburg soccer coach Tom Rahauser ’74 during a recent visit to campus. Hector is an engineer and general manager for the Cayala City project, a mixed-use development effort in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Paul Royer ’93, Rob Pitts ’93, Neil Riser ’93, Ben Martin ’93, and Matt Beatty ’94 at a 1970s-themed 40th birthday party for Rob. “The party was a surprise and held at Rob’s house in D.C.,” Matt says. “Paul came in from upstate New York, Neil from Denver, and Ben from Salt Lake City.”
advisory committee of the newly formed Bureau of Children’s Justice within the California Department of Justice. Ray will advise the Bureau on issues related to children and the state’s Medicaid program, which provides healthcare coverage for low-income children.
team in the U.S. Tim says he regularly keeps in touch with classmate Russell Weaver.
Parker Ward visited Annapolis, Maryland, for a family wedding at the U.S. Naval Academy and met up with 1982 classmates José Espino and Andy Alpert while he was in town.
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Mark Pyper hosted several students and faculty at his Utah home as part of a Mercersburg Outdoor Education trip to Moab National Park in February.
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Nathan Mao, father of Emily Mao, Weiyen Mao Jonas ’86, Rendy Mao ’09, and Renee Mao ’11, died February 1, 2015.
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Luke Ebbin co-wrote and produced Richie Sambora’s album Aftermath of the Lowdown, and has been touring around the world with Sambora, who is the former lead guitarist of Bon Jovi. Andy Lilienthal lives in South Portland, Maine, and continues to serve as director of Camp Winnebago. His wife, Laura, is a pediatrician, and the couple has two sons. Tim O’Brien has been the national coach for Nitro Swimming in Austin, Texas, since its inception in 2006 and recently served as head coach for Team USA at the World Cup Swimming Championships in Beijing, Tokyo, and Singapore. Tim was also head coach for the U.S. National Junior Team Camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Nitro Swimming is a Top 5
Peggy Raley Ward’s stepson, Tyler, passed away August 28, 2014.
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Lucie Portier, mother of Margaret O’Brien and the late Robert O’Brien ’88, died March 22, 2015.
Susan Stoner Leithauser has returned to Denison University, where she is a senior development officer focusing on parent and family philanthropy and engagement. She says she’d love to connect with Mercersburg families near Granville, Ohio, and enjoys being on staff with fellow Mercersburg alumna Kim Lloyd ’90, who is an assistant swimming coach at Denison and helped the men’s and women’s teams to second-place finishes at the NCAA Division III National Championships.
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Susie Lyles-Reed’s father, Bobby, passed away April 8, 2015.
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Peggy Burns was featured in a June 2015 article in the arts & leisure section of The New York Times about Drawn and Quarterly, the comics company where she serves as publisher.
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After seven years in China, Rashmi Jolly Dalai and her family left Shanghai, where she was a writer for the City Weekend and Shanghai Family magazines, and moved to Singapore. Her article “What Makes the Expat Lifestyle So Addictive?” was featured on The Wall Street Journal’s Expat blog in June.