MERCERSBURG MAGAZINE SPRING 2015
39
Births/Adoptions 2
1
1. Kyle Davis Brown, son of Lindsey Coates Brown ’99 and her husband, Alex, born September 27, 2014. (Kyle joins big brother Wyatt.) 2. Aidan Stone Danziger, son of Matt Danziger ’99 and his wife, Kate, born March 21, 2014. 3. Luise Müller, daughter of Pia Streicher Müller ’00 and her husband, Andreas, born August 28, 2014.
Last summer, Jessica Malone spent three weeks in Chingola, Zambia, where she participated in an acid tar remediation project as part of her work with AMEC. Jessica ran in the 2014 New York City Marathon for the charity Every Mother Counts.
’04
Brett Gallaway has been named a partner at McLaughlin & Stern, a law firm in New York City.
3
To former faculty member Chris Thoren ’90 and his wife, Sarah: a daughter, Isabelle, May 11, 2012.
To Meghan D’Amelio Watson ’99 and her husband, William: a son, Keeler Lawton, November 7, 2014.
To Laura Linderman Barker ’91 and her husband, Andrew: a daughter, Margaret “Maggie” Rose Eugenia Barker, February 21, 2014.
To Victoria Leontieva Blackburn ’03 and her husband, Jamie Blackburn ’03: a son, James B. Blackburn V, December 15, 2014.
To Emily Adams (widow of Brian Adams ’97): a daughter, Sophia Lynn Adams, March 30, 2015.
To Ian McClintick ’04 and his wife, Katie: a son, Lucas Ian, January 26, 2015.
To Liz Curry Watkins ’98 and her husband, Pete ’97: a son, Connor David, August 10, 2014.
To Curtis Feigt ’09 and his wife, Katelyn: a son, Odin Gerhart, January 2, 2015.
Will Scott married Glenda Cabral October 2, 2014. Will works in Mumbai, India, for Trafigura, a Dutch multinational commodity trading and logistics firm specializing in energy and base metals. He maintains a blog of his adventures at teamscotttour.com.
’05
Tammy McBeth Armstrong has launched a Tumblr page, technicalady.tumblr.com, to chronicle her adventures in graduate school at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Elliott Van Ness is director of research and portfolio manager at Rinehart Wealth Management and has earned a CFA charter.
’06
Haven Barnes ’96 (right) met up with his old Main Hall roommate and fellow Irving Society member, Patrick Tansor ’96, on a visit to Tennessee. Haven is a guide for Backroads and has been traveling the world in between training for marathons and triathlons. Patrick lives and works at Baylor School in Chattanooga with his wife, Allison, and their children, Maggie (7) and Oliver (1). Patrick teaches theater to sixth through 12th graders and is a dorm parent. After being best friends for 20 years, Haven and Patrick reminisced about how, still to this day, Mercersburg plays an important role in every aspect of their lives. They are forever grateful to the faculty and staff for supporting (and tolerating) them during their time at school.
Vincent Rey [Mercersburg, fall 2014] led the Cincinnati Bengals with 121 tackles (good for 12th in the NFL) during the 2014 season. He started 13 games, was named the Bengals’ defensive player of the year, and was elected the team’s NFL Players Association representative in addition to being nominated for the NFL Man of the Year Award for his service off the field. The Bengals made the playoffs for the fourth-straight year for the first time in the team’s history. Veronica Sisson married Blair Connell Kirkpatrick June 14, 2014, at Culzean Castle and Country Park in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Alumni in attendance included Tara Brendle Owens ’91, whose two daughters were flower girls. Veronica’s husband is Scottish—the couple met while playing for the University of Glasgow’s basketball teams after Veronica moved there in 2008 to study zoology. Veronica and Blair live in Fife, Scotland; she is studying veterinary medicine at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh, and he is in his final year of a Ph.D. program in photonics at the University of St. Andrews.
’07
Jessica Stojak married Brook Schafer on August 16, 2014, in Hagerstown, Maryland. Jessica is assistant director of special education at West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland; she holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education from Saint Francis University and a master’s degree in special education/learning disabilities from American University. Brook is a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps and is stationed at the White House Communications Agency in Washington.
’10
Britta Sherman has returned to the D.C. area after living in Louisiana for a year. She completed her first semester of graduate school at Northeastern University and has a new position as a GIS analyst with Chester Engineers.
’11
Wade Burelbach graduated cum laude from Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts in May 2014. Nikki Hyrkas received the assignment of Navy pilot in the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2015’s service selection.
’12
Sarah Allen studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany during the fall 2014 semester and connected with several alumni throughout Germany, including Cora Brandau ’14, Becca Galey ’09, Carolin Oetzbach ’10, and Fritzi Wentz ’09. “All of the other Americans in my program were always asking me how I knew so many people in Germany,” Sarah says. “It was so cool!” Sarah is studying in London this spring