in the State of Texas with over 20 years of practice experience. Her expertise is architectural lighting design and education.
1991 Tracy Lewis and her husband recently relocated to Ashburn, Va., after he completed his medical residency at Duke in radiation oncology. As an active member of the US Navy, he will be stationed at the Walter Reed Military Medical Hospital in Bethesda, Md. Tracy will be working from her home office for Cisco Systems. They are enjoying their time with her husband’s children, who live close by.
1993 Mitchell Brown along with co-author Kathleen Hale, published a textbook with Wiley/Jossey-Bass titled Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Catherine Buchholz Carver moved from her downtown Raleigh cottage to Fuquay Varina in October 2013. She is enjoying the view of the sky above. Her office on St. Mary’s St. was sold, so after doing massage therapy there for 10 years, she joined Eastern Traditions, Lei Zheng. She has a granddaughter at Appalachian. She is still feeling young! Valerie Collier now works at Corinth Holders High in Johnston Country. She just began her 22nd year of teaching. Katherine Gu Granger moved to Columbus, Ohio, two years ago for her husband’s job at Ohio State University. She has since joined Cardinal Health and has accepted a six-month assignment to China. She and her daughter are moving to Shanghai and they are very excited about the opportunity as Shanghai is her hometown. Her daughter will be enrolled in a local school and will have an opportunity to learn the culture and language. Mandy Dill Hines is still teaching at Davie County High School. She coaches two culinary/ restaurant teams at the high school. This spring, her Culinary Prostart team won the North Carolina state title and competed at Nationals in May in Minneapolis. Her Restaurant Management Team took second in the state competition for the second year in a row. As a sales director with The Pampered Chef for more than 12 years, she continues to train her consultants and loves doing cooking shows with people to show off their products. With teaching, coaching, and selling kitchen tools, she can’t stay out of the kitchen. Becky Yarbrough Norman graduated from Winthrop University with a Master of Social Work degree. She obtained her clinical license and recently started her job as a Therapist with RHA Health Services, Inc. Kelly Phillips Erb of The Erb Law Firm PC, Paoli, received the inaugural Pennsylvania Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Practice Section Award during the PBA Annual
Meeting Awards Luncheon in May. Dawn Simpson is currently the financial / technical director for Give Her Wings, Inc. In this volunteer position, she supports the organization, which raises funds to help mothers and children who have left abusive relationships. They are in the process of procuring their 501(c)(3) certification.
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of the Johnston County Scholarship Organization and serves on the Johnston County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, the Board of Directors of the Neuse Charter School, and the Advisory Board for the Clayton branch of the State Employees Credit Union.
2001
Michelle Smith has been named Teacher of the Year at Great Falls Elementary School for the 2014-15 school year. She teaches second grade.
Katherine Withers Armstrong won the 2013 Pinnacle Award and will be named to the Circle Of Excellence with Bristol Myers Squibb. This award recognizes individuals who accomplish sales numbers that are in the top 10% in the country for the year. This significant level of achievement earned her a trip with her husband to the Grand Cayman Islands. Kelley Davidson Johnson is now the high school director of curriculum for Johnston County Schools.
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Carol Torian is a writer and playwright living in Durham, N.C. Her play The Traditionalists was selected for the Cary Playwrights’ Forum Spring Staged Reading Showcase in May 2014. A scene from her play In the Afternoon was produced by The Owl Tree Theater in August 2014.
Christina Witherspoon-Winokur is the assisting director of adult residential services at SPIN, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pa. She recently celebrated the third birthday of her daughter.
Carol Hill Cato has been elected and installed as the president of The Woman’s Club of Raleigh. Her term will be 2014-16.
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1998 Kimberley Debus earned her Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary. She was also awarded the Robert E. Seaver Award for Excellence in Worship and the Arts. She is the ministerial intern at One Island Family Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Key West, Fla. Michelle Patterson Jones is a Child Care Center Director for Vance Granville Community College and has a master’s degree in early childhood. She and her husband live in her hometown of Louisburg. She models part time.
2003 Tasha Matheny Michaels was recently promoted to pharmacy manager at Kerr Drug/Walgreens in Chapel Hill and continues to be the site coordinator/ primary preceptor for the post-graduate year one (PGY1) Community Pharmacy Residency Program with UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
2005 Seria D. Lakes graduated with her Doctorate in Information Assurance in May 2014. Lakes also recently received her project management professional (PMP) certification.
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Adrien Murray Albright teaches in Chatham County and in February was inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Courtney Duncil recently became a staff attorney with McGuireWoods in Charlotte after serving as assistant district attorney in Mecklenburg County.
Heather Blackwood has recently moved to Charlotte, N.C., for a job with Team Epic. This position focuses on corporate hospitality hosting across the NASCAR circuit for Toyota Racing. Audrey Tamer Harrell was named assistant principal at Holly Springs High School in Wake Count Public Schools in December of 2013.
2000 Michelle Drake Denning is seeking elected office as Johnston County’s Clerk of Superior Court. She has served as an attorney with the North Carolina Industrial Commission since 2006, and currently serves as a Special Deputy Commissioner. Denning is also an adjunct faculty member at Johnston Community College. She lives in Smithfield with her husband and their son. They love serving the community and are active members of their church. She is the president
2008 ToniAnn Gambella began her fourth year at the Rebecca School, a specialized program for children with neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating, which utilizes the Developmental Individual difference Relationship (DIR)/ Floortime model. She also holds an Intermediate Certificate in DIR/Floortime from the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL). She was recently F all 2014 | M E R E D IT H M A G A Z I N E
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