ALUMNI NEWS
Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors The Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes five new members: Maidena Manders Fulford ’89 is an attorney with Fulford & Fulford. She graduated from Randolph College with a B.A. in Communications and from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She is committed to causes supporting economic empowerment, poverty alleviation, and children. She and her husband Wade have two daughters. Natalie Mercho Taler ’96 received her BA in Psychology and French from Indiana University and graduated from the University of Maryland Dental School with a Doctor of Dental Surgery. She is employed with Every and Mercho Dental in Carmel, Indiana. Natalie is married to David and they have two boys, Jackson (6) and Hudson (3 ½). In her free time, Natalie enjoys cooking, baking, hiking, skiing and SCUBA.
Alumni Board: Back: Zach Wills ’03, Beth Tolbert Johnson ’03, Kate Engle ’95, Matt Kleymeyer ’00, Joe Hawkins ’96, Ben Miner ’02, Emily Bohn ’12, Natalie Marcho Taler ’96, Katelyn Miner Fisher ’04, Kristi Kirles Walden ’98 Front: Courtney Maguire Day ’03, Andy Marra ’06, Tony Holton ’06, Julianne Sicklesteel Brainard ’07, Maidena Manders Fulford ’89, Mallory Reider Inselberg ’98
Kristi Kirles Walden ’98 graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Informatics and a minor in Journalism. She works for her third-generation owned family business, Kirles Jewelers, located in Indianapolis. She is married to Nick and they enjoy travel and their two dogs, Mazey and Dutchess. Kristi serves on the Orchard School Alumni Board and Kappa Kappa Gamma Association. In addition, she has volunteered every Friday for the past 13 years in her mom’s Kindergarten class in the Indianapolis Public Schools district. Ben Miner ’02 graduated from Indiana University and is employed with Extremity Solutions, where he serves as a Territory Sales Manager in the Orthopedic Trauma unit. He joins his sister, Katelyn Fisher ’04, on the board which may very well be our first brother/sister duo to serve. In his free time, he enjoys golfing, duck hunting and water skiing. Ben is an enthusiastic supporter of Park Tudor. Emily Bohn ’12 graduated from Butler University with a BA in Theatre and a minor in Marketing. She was recognized by Butler in 2016 as a top 100 student. Emily is a freelance actor, and also volunteers for Ovar’Coming Together. She enjoys theatre, the Arts, and travel and her interests include social media marketing and reading. Each year, two students are selected from the senior class to serve as senior class representatives. They spend their senior year as ad-hoc members of the Alumni Board of Directors, and make presentations at each board meeting. After graduation, they will serve as their class representatives. Our 2017 representatives are: TyraRose Nibbs ’17 is a leader among her class. She serves as president of the Cultural Acceptance Club and is the Diversity Chair for the Upper School. She is the captain of the track team and received a Varsity letter each of her four years on the girls’ basketball team. TyraRose is an Honor Thespian and serves as secretary of the society. She received the Jill Blair Voice Scholarship and the Joi Lynne Warner Scholarship for community service and leadership.
Trace Arbuckle and TyraRose Nibbs Trace Arbuckle ’17 Trace is a National Merit Semifinalist, a Cum Laude Commendee and an AP Scholar with Distinction. He received the Joe Dezelan Scholarship his sophomore, junior and senior year, and also received the Freshman Honor Scholarship. Outside the classroom, Trace plays basketball and was a member of the 2015 state championship team. He also plays varsity baseball, sings in Madrigals and is an active member of Student Council.
Calendar of Events
Park School Night at the PT Basketball Game Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Panther Room in the PT Gym 6:00 p.m. - JV Game 7:30 p.m. - Varsity Game RSVP to Gretchen Hueni, ghueni@parktudor.org
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