Submit your news for inclusion in Class Notes to the Office of Alumni Relations: alumnioffice@park.edu or Park University, 8700 NW River Park Drive, Parkville, MO 64152. Letesha N. Newsom, ’06, served at President Barack Obama’s second inaugural ball. Newsom is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Clayton Lowry, ’07, is the Defense Commissary Agency’s senior enlisted adviser to the Europe area director. Nima Shaffé, ’07, is a reporter on the morning news program, “Action News This Morning” on WXYZTV in Detroit. Follow Shaffé on Twitter, @ NimaShaffe. 1st Lt. Henry L. Sims Jr., ’08, M.P.A. ’12, is operations flight commander at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In this capacity, he is responsible for supervising, evaluating and facilitating the performance of 47 cadets.
Sandra Nunnaley, ’11, is the secretary of the Board of Directors for the Kansas City, Mo., School District. As an officer of the board, she signs all official documents and is responsible for compliance of district administrative policies, board governance policies and all requirements of the State of Missouri. She manages board files and agendas for public meetings and coordinates candidate filing for vacancies in the district. Robert Palmer, ’12, is a defender for the Major Indoor Soccer League’s Indepencence, Mo., based Missouri Comets. He is joined by former Park University men’s soccer teammate Ramone Palmer. Staff Sgt. William “Jay” Price, ’12, (left) held his re-enlistment ceremony in the Park University F. E. Warren Air Force Base (Wyo.) Campus Center office. Retired Lt. Col. Eric S. Davis (right), director at Park’s FEWAFB Campus, officiated.
2010s David P. Anderson, ’11, is a financial consultant with Anderson Financial Group at Hilliard Lyons, Saginaw Township, Mich. Aliesha Cassie, ’11, is a member of the Kansas City Shock, a team in the Women’s Premier Soccer League that began its inaugural season in May.
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CLASS NOTES
Weddings
Barbara Kidd, ’08, married Robert Rathbun on Jan. 1. The couple resides in Dallas, where they both are pursuing master’s degrees in biblical languages and applied linguistics. Lindsey Rardeen, ’08, and Capt. James Douglas Turk, U.S. Army, were married on Jan. 5 in Kansas City, Mo. Amy Lewis, ’10, married Michael Van Wagner on Aug. 18, 2012. After a honeymoon in Maui and Kauai, Hawaii, the couple resides in Kansas City, Mo. Kaili Baker, ’11, and Joshua Trusler, ’12, were married April 27. Kaili is a project coordinator for B.E. Smith, a health care executive search firm. Joshua is employed at Enterprise Leasing, in the management trainee program. The couple resides in Liberty, Mo. Tanya Griffin, ’11, and Christopher Williams were married Sept. 15, 2012, in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is continuing her education at the University of Alaska.
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