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MERCERSBURG MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2016
’03
Jade Baum Dunivant’s father, Aldus, passed away May 2, 2014.
’04
Alyse Blackburn applied to the Peace Corps in 2014 and is serving as an education volunteer and children’s literacy teacher in Guyana. Sarah Olwell married Nathan Kibildis July 25, 2015, in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Classmate Camilla Lee Paquette was in attendance. Faculty member Jack Hawbaker and his wife, Karen, visited Matt Danziger ’99 last summer while traveling to San Francisco, California.
’05
Tamara Filipovic ’05 and her partner, Brenan Hornseth, completed a seven-day, 370-mile bikepacking trip from Reston, Virginia, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using the Washington & Old Dominion Trail, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Towpath, and the Great Allegheny Passage. Tamara thanks the Mercersburg Outdoor Education program for teaching her the importance of spending time in nature and the joy of outdoor sports. Jessica Malone ’03 and Rebecca Lowe ’99 at the first-ever BlazerCon conference in New York City in November. Rebecca was a keynote speaker for the event, which was organized by the Men in Blazers podcast team that includes Michael Davies ’85 and billed itself as “a forum where the best global football minds could engage directly with an audience of Americans who have fallen in love with the game.” Jessica is serving as a representative for the organization Every Mother Counts, working with fellow runners to train for various races in order to raise funds for EMC.
’95
Leland Kass married Timothy Fitzpatrick September 12, 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee. Leland and Tim live in New York City, where she is vice president of marketing and public relations for Jonathan Adler and he is a senior associate in the global project finance division of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Jamie Wollrab is head of voice and movement at Warner Loughlin Studios in Los Angeles and a company member of The Actor’s Studio. He is also working with acting clients through his business, The Liberated Actor, to teach them a “network of body, breath, voice, and healing practices.”
’96
Wes Wrightson is working in senior management on a post-Ebola health systems strengthening project funded by USAID through the John Snow Research & Training Institute within four heavily hit Ebola districts in Sierra Leone. “I am coming from working as a customs officer in law enforcement in Canada after two years and 13 years working at senior management on USG-funded projects in sub-Saharan Africa,” Wes says.
’99
Ingrid Herr-Paul Ashley is volunteering with MACWell (the Mercersburg Area Council for Wellness) as the organization develops the Johnston Run Scenic Streamside Trail near campus. Erin McCartney Rozniakowski had a blog entry published on the Awesome Sports Project, an initiative of Basketball Education in Action. Zoe Tsoukatos writes that she couldn’t be more excited for the artisan truffles from Zoe’s Chocolate Co. to be included in the Williams-Sonoma catalog. Zoe is the owner of the company, which is based in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
’00
Alec Harris married Ellyn Turer November 21, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Alec’s brother, Evan Harris ’07, served as best man and Andy Shirk and Srian Goonewardene were groomsmen. Other attendees included classmates Colby Schroath and Emily Stark. Anne Reeder Bertram is serving as an adviser for Mercersburg’s Imagining 21st Century Theatrical Performance Springboard course this year. She choreographed for the Fall Dance Concert and for the Stony Batter Players winter musical Into the Woods.
’01
Mike Best is serving in the U.S. Air Force in a civilian position, working at a training center for trauma at the Saint Louis University Hospital. Sierra Nixon has moved to Venice, California, to build a West Coast presence for Empire Entertainment, the event production company she has been working with since 2008.
John Dawes married Katie Sabri ’07 June 6, 2015, at Huntingdon Farm in Alexandria, Pennsylvania. Mercersburg alumni in attendance included Katie’s sister Mo Sabri Olson ’00, Michelle Karbach ’08, Ovie Onobrakpeya ’09, and Joy Mullins ’10. School minister Larry Jones officiated. Katie received her clinical doctorate in audiology from James Madison University in May and is an audiologist with Otolaryngology Associates in Fairfax, Virginia. John is completing his master’s degree in geographic information systems at Johns Hopkins University and is the administrator of Chesapeake Commons in Washington, D.C. Taylor Newby received the 2015 People’s Voice Webby Award for his photography and graphics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
’06
Hilary Gridley was featured in The Limited’s “Leading Looks Like” online and in-store campaign, which highlights women who embody the new look of leadership.
’07
Stephanie Fejes married Phil Cohen July 11, 2015. Steph’s sister, Jessie Fejes ’06, was in the bridal party. Neil Gordon has moved to Denver to work for Arapahoe Sign Arts while pursuing a graduate degree in construction management at Colorado State University. He plays rugby for the Denver Harlequins. Matteo Scammell was a lead performer in the play Holden at the New Ohio Theater in Manhattan in August 2015.
’08
Robert Nagel moved to Canterbury, England, in September to pursue a Ph.D. in international conflict analysis at the University of Kent. His research will focus on the inclusion of women and gender in conflict resolution processes. Liz Rohrbach married Christopher Andrews September 5, 2015, in La Jolla, California. Liza Rockwell served as maid of honor and 2008 classmates Sonia Byun, Liz Klinger, Laura Willwerth, and Luke Griffin were also in attendance.
’09
Molly Serpi is serving with AmeriCorps for one year in the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan Mountains in the American Southwest.