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Children of Leigh Bladergroen Glatt ’00 and sister Erin Bladergroen Phillips ’99
Classmates from ’99 in San Francisco. L to R: Julia Ogden, Lizzie Ellen Holtan, Sarah Gillespie Levine, Abi Huitt Mackenzie, and Evie Grosenick.
Ivy and enjoying taking in everything Albemarle has to offer! Additionally, I’m taking classes at UVA’s McIntire Business Institute — feels so crazy to be back in school!
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Elizabeth Irwin, 314 East 9th St., Apt. 6, New York, NY 10003; esirwin@gmail.com
Our 15th Reunion was a great weekend, especially our class dinner hosted by Ann Robertson Vaughters and deliciously catered by Lindsay Cowles Arrington’s extremely talented husband! Since then, the Class of 2000 has been hustling and bustling all over the place! London-based Becca Logue Thomson, hubby Ben, and daughter Georgia went to Tuscany with family in August. They were in Siena for the famous horse races and stayed on the Arno River in Florence! Down under, Elizabeth Terrell is still rocking out in Sydney since moving there in March 2014! She joined Deloitte Australia’s cloud services team after a year in their strategy practice – no real surprise there, given she was a computer lab aide at St. Catherine’s for three years! Catherine Mason Hammer and her husband are taking their show on the road: they moved to Saudi Arabia in late September! Headed to Dammam on the Gulf, Catherine hopes to find a job teaching at an international middle school. Mara Smith spent her summer traveling and getting ready for her second year teaching in Hanover County Public Schools. Leigh Bladergroen Glatt is excited to be working at St. Christopher’s Early Enrichment and Extended Day programs teaching drama. She spent a week on the Outer Banks with sister Erin Bladergroen Phillips ’99 and their parents; never a dull moment with four kids under the age of four! Up in NYC, Elizabeth Clinard Voulgarakis started a new job at Added Value, a strategic marketing consultancy, while still serving as Junior Board chair for Rosie’s Theater Kids. It’s not all work for Elizabeth though – she and hubby Michael spent time in Amagansett this summer, taking their cocker spaniel Lady for long walks on the beach. (Rumor has it that while Lady does in fact enjoy piña
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Maggie Temple Bailey ’00’s twins Madison and Carter
coladas, getting caught in the rain is NOT her thing.) As if having twin toddlers (Madison and Carter) doesn’t keep her busy enough, Maggie Temple Bailey plans to run the Rock n Roll Half Marathon in New Orleans in February 2016. She’s raising money in honor of her sister-in-law and her fiancé, both tragically killed in a plane crash — any support is welcomed! As for me, Elizabeth Irwin, I participated in the annual Blondes vs. Brunettes flag football fundraiser. With my sister Louise Irwin Welch ’96 and Alexandra Ellen Ebrahim ’96 cheering us on, Team Blonde took home the trophy and helped raise nearly $200k for the Alzheimer’s Association! A week later I headed to Beijing for a two week family adventure in connection with the Richmond Ballet’s cultural ambassadorship to China. (I finally got to see the Terracotta Army we learned about in Lower School!) Later in the summer, a wedding in Vermont had me tearing up the dancefloor with my mom Dede Deane Irwin ’68 and my aunt Eleanor Deane Bierbower ’75! As for the rest of you, I know you’re doing amazing things, so why won’t you tell me about them!? (Nicole Dicharry Jordan, for example, claims to lead a boring, uneventful life… but secretly I think she’s off saving the whales and fighting crime and giving unparalleled karaoke performances. Alas, I have no proof… YET.) Until next time…
15th Reunion Evan Garrison, 303 S Blvd., Apt. 10, Richmond, VA 23220; garrison.evan@gmail.com Ida Trice Vaclavik, 2111 Wisconsin Ave. NW, #602, Washington, DC 20007; idatrice@gmail.com A lot has been happening with the class of 2001: marriages, babies, new jobs and fun trips! Mary Mason Williams Foukal is still in Charlottesville and welcomed a baby boy, Carrington Williams Foukal, on April 7, 2015. Emily Valentine Schutt
also had a visit from the stork in Arlington, Va., welcoming a baby girl, Peyton Valentine Schutt, on August 21, 2015. Both Mary Mason and Emily report that they are absolutely in love and managing to get a bit of sleep too! Alexis Martirosian continues to live in Washington, D.C.,where she works as a lawyer by day, salsa dancer by night and a world traveler on the weekends. After 10 years of working in law firms, Carrington Lee made a switch and joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. where she manages “professional development for consults in the healthcare practice in New York.” I am sure that keeps her busy during the week and I know she has a cute dog who keeps her busy on the weekends. The girls on the west coast are keeping busy too. Claire Williams is teaching yoga in the Bay Area and had a fall trip planned to hike and explore Australia and New Zealand for a month. Natalie Martirosian Mason is living in San Francisco, but journeyed back east to tie the knot on May 9, 2015 in Richmond. Lots of classmates were in attendance and it was quite the party! Julie Griffith also tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony in Bear Mountain, N.Y. The wedding party sang a song from Les Mis and the dessert table was not to be missed — cheesecake, chocolate cake and bananas foster. Melissa Britt Mitchell made the journey from Atlanta to New York to attend. Melissa also completed a cross country road trip this summer traveling from California to Atlanta. When not traveling, she is taking care of her two furry babies Pickles and Porkchop. Blair Dunlap Edwards had her second daughter June 5, weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce, 18.75 inches. Coventry “Covey” Neal Edwards was welcomed with love by Blair, Chris and big sister Lily! As each year passes, it seems more girls make their way back to Richmond. Grey Gibson Martin and her husband are thrilled to be back in town. Grey is currently working for a management consulting firm and Seth is teaching Upper School English at St. Catherine's. Ann Kamps Kramer Taliaferro and her husband Michael are in Richmond as well and welcomed a little girl Adele to their mix. Evan Garrison