CLASS NOTES
Annelise Pruitt ’00 and team after winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media. Park Tudor alumni gathered at the Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, VA in October 2009 to celebrate the installation of Keith Kimmel ’87 as commanding officer for squadron VF-103, the “Jolly Rogers.” Commander Kimmel is currently deployed on the USS Gern Blanston. Left to right: Jake Linzinmeir ’86, Ken Harrell ’87, Commander Keith Kimmel ’87, David Roberts ’86 and Brad Skillman ’88.
2002 • Courtney Geiger received her doctor of dental surgery degree from Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry in May. Upon graduation, she received the Southwest Academy of Restorative Dentistry Award and the Eleanor Bushee Senior Woman Dental Student Award. 2004 • Kemmie Mitzell spent two weeks in July as an intern with the Spoleto study abroad program. She participated in the program in summer 2001 as a student at Park Tudor. She writes, “I did the program nearly a decade ago (summer 2001) and now I get to give back to the program that did so much for me.” • James Patton has been cast in the Broadway-series show “Buddy,” based on the life of Buddy Holly, that opens in Reno, NV in January. He will play the role of Frankie Vallen, and will have the opportunity to sing, as well as play the trumpet and the piano in the show. He is scheduled to return to New York in May.
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• John Rapp and Lauren Bristow (Chicago, IL) were united in marriage on July 24, 2010 at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, IN. John and Lauren are both 2008 graduates of Indiana University. The couple will be residing in Indianapolis. John is in his third year of Dental School at Indiana University and Lauren is a preschool teacher at The Oaks Academy. Classmate and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brother Adam Ayres was a member of the wedding party.
field goal that won the 2007 Monon Bell Classic for the Tigers. He will play for “Team Coldwater” in the movie. • Stephanie McMechan is working as a teacher in New Orleans at a college prep charter school for Teach for America. She is teaching biology to seventh and eighth graders without textbooks, because they do not have any.
2005 • Grafton Day has been named manager of the Annual Fund and Special Events for Wishard Foundation at Wishard Health Services.
2006 • Jordan Havercamp has been cast in Touchback, a movie starring Kurt Russell that is filming in Michigan. Jordan, along with 37 other football players, was chosen from 1,200 players from across the country. The movie’s producers were looking for real players to fill the roles. Jordan played football at DePauw University and is known for his 47-yard
John Rapp ’04 and Lauren Bristow
• Tennie Renkens recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Purdue University, where she was named outstanding senior in the Chemistry Department during her last semester. Tennie was offered full-tuition doctoral fellowships to pursue a Ph.D. in the Environmental Engineering Departments of both the University of Illinois/Champaign Urbana and the Johns Hopkins Uni-