CLASS NOTES almost a fourth of the enrollment. The DCHS Chamber Singers are a select group out of the program and have traveled all over the Southeast singing for many different events. Spencer and his wife, Lora Whitfield Wright (’98) have been married for 15 years and have three children. “I love spending time with my family,” spencer said. “ My older girls play Club Soccer for United Futbol Academy and we spend a great deal of time on the road watching them play. I am the Worship Pastor at Harbor Worship Center in Dawsonville. I play guitar, bass, drums and piano. My life revolves around God and my family. I am blessed beyond measure.” DR. MARTHA KELLY CANTRELL ’80 True to the tradition of being a lifetime learner, Martha earned her EdS degree in 2010 and recently completed her doctorate in education at Piedmont. She teaches AP calculus at Habersham Central High School and is the Gifted Program Coordinator for the school system. Martha and Jon (’81) have three married children and will celebrate their 32nd wedding anniversary this year. While teaching at Tallulah Falls School, Martha’s class won a national competition to name the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which first launched in 1992. When the shuttle was retired last year, Martha and her family were invited
to Kennedy Space Center for a private tour to see Endeavour one more time before it was transported to the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles. ANTHONY BALDRIDGE ’96 After graduating in 2006, Anthony Baldridge pursued graduate studies as a Presidential Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied the green fluorescent protein chromophore and received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 2011. While at Tech, he served as the graduate student body president from 2010-2011, taught high school chemistry one day a week, and made research trips to Portugal and England. Anthony is now doing postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley , and has been awarded a National Institutes of Health fellowship to research cancer imaging. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with friends, being a “foodie” both at home and at restaurants, and his hobby of coin collecting.
KATIE SAWHILL ’10 Katie moved to Wilmington, N.C., as one of the founding members of the Greater Wilmington Church, and she is teaching musical theatre and chorus at a local charter school, the Cape Fear Center for Inquiry. Katie is staying active in area theatre, recently playing Maria in The Sound of Music and Ethelene in The Dillinger Dilemma. She also appeared in May in The Hallmark Channel movie, The Confession, with Katie LeClerc and Sherry Stringfield. Our Katie played Alexis, the roommate of LeClerc, who plays Katie Lapp, an Amish girl in search of her real mother. Katie is also promoting and working on an accompanying text for her one-woman show about the Old Testament’s King David. You can find out more at The Nights of the King Facebook page.
Even women of the Old Testament have to fill up now and again.
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