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CONGRATULATIONS, RAVENSCROFT LEGACY FAMILIES, ON YOUR CLASS OF 2013 GRADUATES! CAMERON CASTLEBERRY
JENNIFER MORRIS FINNEGAN writes: “We had a beautiful baby girl on Dec. 2, 2012 named Callie Autumn Finnegan. She was 8 pounds, 12 ounces, and 21 ¾ inches long.” WILLIAM MOSS and his wife, Chailee, are moving to Ohio for her to begin her ob/gyn residency. William also served as a panelist for Ravenscroft’s Career Week held for juniors and seniors. He talked with them about law school and careers in the legal field.
Daughter of Jeff Castleberry ’80
CHASE DUNCAN Son of Chuck Duncan ’79 and Clinton Lee Duncan ’76
MARGARET EDWARDS Daughter of Mary Burr Fonville Edwards ’85
CALLEY MANGUM Daughter of Michael Mangum ’77 and Tal Hinnant Mangum ’77
ELIZABETH MASSEY Daughter of Allen Massey ’79 and Lorie Hightower Massey ’84
SAVANNAH GRACE MILLER Daughter of Preston Miller ’85
WILL ORMAND Son of Angie DeMent ’81
SARAH PUPA
2004
Gretchen Presnell, Ashley Board, and Keith Strombotne gcpresnell@gmail.com ashleyboard@gmail.com ks@thecommunintycloud.com
Mark your calendars for September 20-21, 2013 for Reunions! If you are interested in serving on the planning committee, please contact GRETCHEN or TAMMY HAYWOOD, Director of Alumni Giving and Activities, at thaywood@ravenscroft.org. Sympathy goes out to MARGIE RUTHERFORD, RICHARD ’99, and EDWARD ’99. Their mother, Marjorie Rutherford, passed away on Dec. 9, 2012.
GRETCHEN PRESNELL is living in Raleigh and working as the Director of Annual Giving for Camp Sea Gull and Camp Seafarer. SHANLEY LESTINI writes: “I graduated this spring from dental school at UNC-Chapel Hill. I am thrilled to be practicing dentistry at Dr. Scott Earp’s office on St. Mary’s Street in Raleigh!”
SABA CHAUDHRY BARNARD served as a panelist for
Daughter of Mary Ruth Jones Pupa ’80
Career Week held for the juniors and seniors at Ravenscroft to share her experiences as an artist.
THOMAS SIGMON
MATT MCGINNIS competed in the Pan American
Son of Mary Catherine Kennedy Sigmon ’76
CLAY STROUD
Masters Swimming Championships in June in Sarasota, Fla., and broke the world record in the 100m Freestyle (25-29 age group) with a blistering time of 50.45.
Son of William Stroud ’80
JAMES TURNER Son of Frank Turner ’73
2005
Jessie Hale Tesh Jessie.tesh@gmail.com
JILL GARRISON writes: “I am currently a research analyst for a health economics consulting firm called Cedar Associates in San Francisco.”
SCOTT JONES married Katherine Frances Geron on July 7, 2012.
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Celeste Allen Chapman celeste.allen22@gmail.com
Sympathy goes out to MATT MCCONNELL, whose brother JOHN MCCONNELL JR. ’00, passed away on April 13. He was also the brother of WILL MCCONNELL ’02, KASEY OLIVE ’09, and former student COLE OLIVE ’11.
MARY GLENN CRUMPLER, former third grade teacher at Ravenscroft, shared her experiences and knowledge about teaching to juniors and seniors as a panelist at Ravenscroft’s Career Week. She is getting married in July and moving to Virginia.
2007
Rob Byrd robertbyrd@gmail.com
T. FIELDER VALONE, a doctoral student at Indiana University, was awarded the Raymond J.Cunningham Prize at the meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans.
TRÉ COTTEN was awarded The Best Actor in a Musical for the role of Harpo in The Color Purple the Musical. He is also a recent graduate of UNCWilmington and will be packing his bags to move northwest to get his Master in Fine Arts for Acting at the University of Washington’s School of Drama in Seattle, Wash. He was also featured in Wilmington, N.C.’s portcitydaily.com on May 21. The feature was titled: Tré Cotten: From the hardcourt to the theater stage. Congratulations to ROB KENT on the birth of his daughter, Brooke Elizabeth Kent, born Dec. 20, 2012.
CAROLINE FISH recently completed her first year of graduate school at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where she is concentrating in women’s mental health and multicultural studies. The self-designed concentration will allow her to focus her courses on women’s issues, interpersonal violence and international populations. For field work, which will begin later this year, she hopes to work in an agency that serves refugee and immigrant survivors of violence in St. Louis in order to build her skills in the field of culturally sensitive and holistic trauma care and recovery. Caroline received a Danforth Scholarship (a merit-based, full-tuition scholarship) for her twoyear program.
YASHAR KASEBI has had a terrific experience with the sustainability company he interned with while he attended N.C. State. He has since accepted a position as a Black Belt Engineering Leader and enjoys coaching lacrosse on the side.