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Nell Pittman Sutlive, 951 Dean Dr., NW, Atlanta, GA 30318; npittman@alumni.wfu.edu
Helen Mattox Bost '93 and Lucy Tanner Brewer '93 celebrating birthdays in Miami
children.” LeaAnna stays in regular contact with Deborah Bedford Roberts who just got married, and Elise Levasseur Rogers, “who is still challenging herself as an endurance horse rider.”
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Liz Booker Staub, 300 Booty Ln., Virginia Beach, VA 23451; lizbstaub@gmail.com Please send us your news!
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Page Boyette Curtin, 700 Oak Knoll Ln., Menlo Park, CA 94025; pagebcurtin@gmail.com; and
Happy, happy “big” birthday year to the class of 1993. I trust everyone has had and will have memorable celebrations for the milestone! Helen Mattox Bost and Lucy Tanner Brewer were able to celebrate together in Miami this winter, along with other Carolina friends, and had a great time catching up. Lindsay Bowen Adamson’s daughter Allie started kindergarten at St. Catherine’s this fall and is having a fantastic time. Eliza Siegel Branch’s daughter Alice also is in kindergarten at St. Catherine’s and the girls carpool together. Lindsay continues to sit on the Alumnae Board and is taking on the herculean task of co-chairing Daisy Days 2016 as well. She’ll do a great job, I know! She also is serving on a committee for St. Catherine’s 125th Anniversary Celebration. Lindsay writes that “a lot is happening at our School and it’s pretty exciting. After being a student and then staying active as an alumna— it’s even more fun than being a parent! Watching Allie take part in some of the same traditions I participated in as a kindergartener is really cool. I wish everyone were closer and could see what a great place our school is these days.” Thanks to all of you who passed along news – Page and I always love hearing from everyone. Please keep the updates coming!
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Rachel Easterly Gagen, 1507 Langhorne Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24503; fortun8@comcast.net; and Julie Ann Raymer Wash, 4106 Park Ave., Richmond, VA 23221; julieann.wash@kikicollection.com
Last October Whitney Parker Kestner was inducted into the Washington and Lee Athletics Hall of Fame as “one of the finest women’s lacrosse players” in the school’s history. Kimberly Lichtenberg was featured on rocketSTEM.org for her work as a scientist and engineer who works on NASA’s Mars rover missions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasedena, Calif.
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Sophie Milam, 1324 N. Bosworth Ave. Apt 2R Chicago, IL 60642; smilam@mindspring.com
Many of the ’95ers returned to Richmond for their 20th Reunion in April. A big thank you to Laura Albertson Horn for hosting the class party. We also had a number of classmates speak at Career Day: Kirstine Wilson, Caroline Ewing Burd, Jameka Whitten, Tyler Lewis Perry, Anne Sidney Hetherington and Alice Nelson Herlihy. Great job ladies! Larissa Powers is living in Viña del Mar,
SPOTLIGHT
Monique Cheng Joe ’90
While working on securities litigation and corporate counselling at a law firm in New York City, Monique Cheng Joe '90 started to think about her next career steps. She found herself reflecting on the words of an attorney on Career Day at St. Catherine’s. “Way back when I was little, I used to watch “LA Law,” and then “Law & Order” and other TV shows like that," Joe said. "From those shows, everyone thought that being a lawyer means going to court and arguing in front of a jury, including me. “When I heard the attorney from Citibank speak (at Career Day), I realized that law was not just going to court. There were other options, like working in-house at a company. That was enlightening.” Joe returned to St. Catherine’s in April to inspire students as a Career Day speaker herself. Originally from West Virginia, Joe attended St. Catherine’s as a boarder for four years.
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"My freshman year, I had to work really hard to even feel like I was on the same playing field as the rest of my classmates, but my eventual success in high school with the help of the wonderfully supportive teachers at St. Catherine's really helped shape the person that I am today," Joe said. And Career Day undoubtedly shaped Joe. The words she heard as a student led to a decision to move to California. She first worked in-house at Fox Family Worldwide, which was bought by Disney. Joe worked for Disney for two years supervising and protecting trademarks and intellectual property and then moved to NBCUniversal for 11 years where most recently, she was Vice President, Trademark Counsel. In this position she helped to take logos to new and unexpected places, including using the recognizable “minions” from “Despicable Me” to promote “Despicable Me 2.” In her newest position at DreamWorks Animation as Head of Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Joe oversees a variety of intellectual property issues, including Shrek. She is also finding that maybe her rusty Chinese that she started learning at St. Catherine's, as one of the first students to take courses in the language, is finally coming in handy. DreamWorks is among the studios trying to enter the Chinese market.