ALUMNAE UPDATES The Class of 1969 met at Escalante’s, Town and Country in January to mark their 47th reunion. (1) Colleen O’Grady ’73, MA, LPC, LMFT published Dial Down the Drama: Reducing Conflict and Reconnecting with Your Teenage Daughter--A Guide for Mothers Everywhere. In its first week on Amazon it was the number one conflict resolution book. Becky Allday Newman ‘75, Jaime Teas Dilger ‘75, Gail New Nevlud ‘75, Katie Dilger Bibler ‘05, and Ginger Teas Caron ‘78 participated in the aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome March for Marrow 5K and Walk, in March. (2) Kristie Widner Tobin ’89 married Paul Tobin (STH ’89) on October 10 at St. Dominic Catholic Church n New Orleans. Their four children were attendants at their wedding. Megan Farrar-Beauchamp ’90 and husband, Brad, welcomed twins, Georgia Dale and Anabelle Marcelle, last summer. Allyson Spellman ’90 is the CEO & founder of Heels, Hustle & Muscle. She is a former actress, entertainment producer and casting
director who has worked in various capacities for TV, film and Broadway. She is currently a women’s empowerment coach, entrepreneur, author, speaker, on-air personality, TV guest expert and host. Allyson has developed programs, workshops and tools designed for women to embrace their authentic voice and reclaim their true identity. She was recently honored as one of the “Local Ladies Who Have Made History” in honor of Women’s History Month for her accomplishments and mission to help women all over the world to embrace their authentic worth. Allyson recently co-founded a scholarship for entrepreneurial women to start, fund or expand a business. www.heelshustleandmuscle.com (3) Jessi Burton Cook ‘94’s daughter Huntley (5) is a kindergartener at St. John Paul II. On All Saints Day, the kindergarten class dressed up as their favorite saints, and Huntley chose St. Agnes. They presented three facts about their saint, and hers were, “St. Agnes was a beautiful girl who lived in Rome. She made a promise to God to never lie and she carries a baby lamb.” (4)
Margarita Olivero Golden ’95 graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998 with a Magazine Journalism degree, and always wanted to work in food magazines. So, in 1999 she headed to NYC, where she enrolled at the Institute of Culinary Education. Later that year, she interned at Country Living Magazine, and then worked at The Magazine of La Cucina Italiana for three years, before venturing out as a personal chef in New York in 2002. She went on to graduate with distinction from Le Cordon Bleu in London in 2004, and she completed the patisserie program and interned in the pastry department of the Restaurant 1880 at the Bentley Hotel. In 2005, she worked in food and beverage management at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, before moving back home to Houston in 2008. In Houston, she worked in pharmaceutical then oil & gas sales, until she married Jeremy Golden and two kiddos (soon to be three) took over her world. She has currently come back to her passion of making specialty cakes and desserts: www.confectionaryhome.com.
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