Class Notes Summer 2014 Park Tudor School
2010 • Caroline Emhardt was named North Coast Athletic Conference women’s tennis Player of the Week for her performance in leading the 12th-ranked Tigers to a win over No. 9 University of Chicago. • Reggie Nesbit graduated from West Point Military Academy in May and now holds the rank of Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He will spend this summer and the first semester of 2014-15 as a football coach at West Point, then will be stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia.
• Alex Sventeckis, a former Brain Game team member, was a contestant in the Jeopardy! College Championship representing Ball State University on February 14, 2014. After years of taking the online test and then passing through the second-round tryout in Nashville, TN, he finally made it all the way to Sony Studios in Culver City, CA to show his knowledge on the big screen.
• Ross Urbahns has been elected to membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars at Southern Methodist University. It is the nation’s only interdisciplinary honors organization for first- and second-year college students; membership is based on grade-point average and class standing.
Marriages 2013 • Vanessa Gehring was featured in the Student Spotlight in INscope, a weekly newsletter from the Indiana University School of Medicine, in January. She is double majoring in biology and voice at Jacobs School of Music in a special degree program that lets her combine music and an outside field of her choice. She spent three months as a lab intern at the Glick Eye Institute during the summer of 2013.
• Allison Hanna ’99 to David Hnyda in November 2013. • Ashley Oldham ’04 to Neil S. Pritchard on May 31, 2014. • Elizabeth Mihalik Clark ’05 to James Clark (son of Barbara Alig Clark ’76) on September 28, 2013. • Andy Marra ’06 to Molly Bodner on March 29, 2014.
Congratulations (Births, Adoptions)
The two Alexes: Trebek and Sventeckis ’10
• To Hilary Renihan Heffernan ’96 and her husband, Mike, on the birth of Owen Robert Heffernan on October 14, 2013.
Reggie Nesbit ’10, who recently graduated from West Point, is in the unusual position of being saluted by his father, Reginald. Reggie, a Second Lieutenant, now outranks his father, who is a Sergeant First Class (R) in the US Army.
• Derek Reinbold received the prestigious NCAA Elite 89 Award for Men’s Tennis. A senior at Case Western Reserve University and captain of the men’s tennis team, Derek’s team advanced to the DIII championships. The Elite 89 Award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s 89 championships. Derek graduated with a 4.0 GPA with three undergraduate degrees in art history, international studies and political science, is currently a Rhodes Scholar candidate and plans to work in politics.
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• To Cara Young Barretto ’94 and her husband, Rick, and former Head of School George Young and his wife, Joan, on the birth of daughter and granddaughter Hope Barretto on March 24, 2014.
• To Matt Nordby ’97 and his wife, Jessica, on the birth of Sophia Cheryl Nordby on April 26, 2014. • To Marne Baumeister Burkett ’98 and her husband, Jeff, on the birth of twins Madison Grace and Wyatt Joseph Burkett on April 16, 2013. • To Megan Lennon Haring ’00 and her husband, Duane, and Athletic Director Brad Lennon and his wife, Anne, on the birth of daughter and granddaughter Harper Rose Haring on May 28, 2014.
Derek Reinbold ’10