sure you go check it out! She also recently completed a half marathon in Atlanta. Go Tiffany! What a busy lady you are! Can’t wait for more updates from the class of 2006! XOXO
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Eliza Blackwell Conrad, 6700 Hanover Ave., Richmond, VA 23226; eblackw@g.clemson.edu
Two generations of Saints take their expertise to the Anna Julia Cooper School. L to R: Anna Starnes ’05, Mary Szymendera ’09 and Gussie Johns Bannard ’73. Anna and Mary are teachers, and Gussie is Mary’s assistant!
real estate. She still coaches at St. Catherine’s in her spare time and loves it. Kelly Lawson is transitioning from New York City to Stockholm, Sweden this fall. She had been working part-time as a recruiter and a yoga teacher and hopes to pursue teaching yoga full time once settled in Sweden. Elizabeth Gay DeMatos is living in Charlotte, N.C. She and her husband Nick are enjoying their 6 month-old baby boy named Oliver. Elizabeth Jeffress Thorsteinson completed her doctoral work in December and is now teaching biology at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta while continuing her post-doctoral work in Science Education. Brittny Smith works at the Food Marketing Institute in the areas of Health & Wellness and Food Safety. She was married on July 4, 2015, and lives in Alexandria, Va. Sami-Beth Cohen is entering her sixth year in NYC. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and just started teaching 4th grade at Global Community Charter School in Harlem. She received her Masters in Education from Mercy College in May. Catie Finley is entering her sixth year living in D.C. and works in the Senate as the Scheduler/Executive Assistant for Senator Barbara Mikulski. Alexandra Bassett Musto and her husband Chris just recently celebrated living in Bristol, England for a full year that involved a lot of traveling and hosting quite a bit of family and friends! Mead McCormick lives in Los Angeles and is now working at Deluxe Digital Studios, a post production house, where she localizes content for Sony, Disney, and Netflix. She is one of the “Mars 100” or the 100 remaining competing candidates for a one way ticket to Mars. Kate Chewning Atwood joined RiverFront Investment Group in April of this year as the Western Regional Sales Consultant after working at Wells Fargo Advisors for over five years. She married Daniel Atwood (St. Chris ‘05) on June 20, 2015 at the Inn at Warner Hall in Gloucester, Va. Dani Hoover, Emily Miller, and Anna Starnes were bridesmaids. Mary Kathryn Perkinson graduated from Campbell University School of Law in May, and just passed the North Carolina bar exam. Leslie Elmore and Jordan Schaeufele went to Burning Man in the Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Your correspondents Anne Porter and Tyler Hetzer Burr are enjoying life in D.C. and Alexandria
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Margaret Shaia Peixoto, 196 Old River Rd., Apt. 310, Lincoln, RI 02865; margaret.shaia@gmail.com
Tiffany Jones ’06 finishing her half marathon in Atlanta
and love hearing from everyone. Thank you for sharing your news!
10th Reunion Janie Coleman, 3815 Garfield St. NW, Washington, DC 20007; janeanncoleman@gmail.com Preston Wright, 1701 Park Ave., Richmond, VA 23222; elizabeth.p.wright@gmail.com Exciting updates from the class of 2006! Katie Doswell Born married Andrew in June and they are living in Chapel Hill with their golden retriever puppy, Cammie. Elizabeth Bartosic Zarzour married Matt Zarzour in June. Beth Thomasson Bright married Austin in May at her family’s farm and Emily Bruner, Moffett Priddy and Sydney Whitaker Hurley were all there celebrating. Emily recently moved to New York City to work in development at The Hewitt School and is LOVING it. Berry Bland, Janie Coleman, Nancy Gottwald, Eugenie Valentine, Sazshy Valentine and Preston Wright spent a beautiful Labor Day Weekend in Austin, Texas celebrating the marriage of Margaret Reynolds Jones and husband Will. Many saints were also in attendance for Juliet Barnard Louthan’s wedding to Michael in Richmond in September. Katie Fletcher McGinley, husband Brandon, and big sister Teresa welcomed baby Ambrose in April. If you want to see cute pictures of her kids, go to her Facebook page — her captions are perfect! Tiffany Jones is still living in Atlanta working for Spanx as a Technical Designer. She recently started a Design Studio, 726 SQFT, where she offers various design services: photography, web + graphic design, watercolor paintings/ stationery, etc!. The site doubles as a lifestyle blog where she shares recipes, travels, and more. Make
Big things are going on for the class of ’07. Congratulations to Amanda Garnett who graduated from physical therapy school where she received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. Eliza Brooke graduated from Wake Forest this past May with her Masters in Medical Science. She is now a Certified Physician Assistant working for a family medicine practice in Winston Salem, N.C. Rachel Beamer Harvey and her husband celebrated their five year wedding anniversary this year. They live in Christiansburg, Va. with their beautiful one-year-old baby girl! Nancy Brown has returned stateside after four years in Barcelona. She is living in San Francisco with ST.C. classmate, Allie Svirsky. Allie started a new job as a 5th grade Humanities teacher at Town School for Boys. Don’t forget to follow Kathy Akey’s adventures during her Arctic Circle residency at svalbardbysea.com. Your class correspondents are doing well thanks for asking. Eliza Blackwell Conrad married Matthew Conrad (St. Chris ’05) last May. Eliza is the daughter of Missy Paca Blackwell ’74 and Matthew is the son of Kathy Barger Conrad ’70. Margaret Shaia Peixoto and her husband Nick bought a house in North Smithfield, R.I. and are enjoying the “land of perpetual debt” that is homeownership! Blakeley Sisk is currently living in Bangalore, India for a year doing a fellowship with International Justice Mission (IJM). Keep on keepin’ on ’07 and don’t forget to send us your news!
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Caroline Kasper, 412 South 15th St., Apt 2F, Philadelphia PA 19102; carolinekasper212@gmail.com
Katherine Hetzer is in nursing school at UNC Chapel Hill. Katherine Shaia graduated from UVA Law School, class of 2015, and moved to D.C. to work at the law firm Morrison & Foerster as a corporate attorney. Helen Lanier Reveley is coming back to Richmond for a few months between finishing up a health certificate program at Columbia and applying to P.A. School. Melinda Carpenter Bronson married in Biddeford Pool, Maine on June 27th. She said it was a great time with lots of St. Catherine’s and St. Christopher’s friends in attendance. We are all so saddened about the untimely and tragic death of our