Class Notes
Alumnae Weekend 2005 Class Reunion Party, including Sarah Atkinson Ball, Faye Kenner Rainer, Grace Jensen Knight, Rainey Ray Segars, Laura Jennings Yacoubian, and Alumnae Board member Emily Templeton Gray
Classmates from 2006 are turkeys for life! Pictured here at Alumnae Weekend for their 10th reunion.
Sarah Kramer ’08 with 2008 classmates, at Sarah’s wedding to Andy Ozbun in Sante Fe in January 2016. Pictured: Lizzy Holt, Mary Greer Simonton, Kennan Wood, Edie Miller, Allie Morrison, Sarah Kramer, Jenny Guyton, Memory Madden, Estes Gould, Sarah Wortham, and Nicolette Overton.
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up a 1.5-year research stint in the Netherlands and will move back to the US this summer to finish her PhD. She had a really nice visit with Rachel JohnsonWhite and her husband Iain in Glasgow recently! Ellen Bransford is finishing up the school year teaching at a charter school in Memphis and then will be a program director with LITE, a nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship skills in high schoolers. McKenzie Carson is a fourth year associate at Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va., practicing in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance Group. She loves spending time with new chocolate lab puppy Winston. Courtney Foreman Guilfoile and her husband are in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. They will move in July to Vicenza, Italy for three years with golden retriever Sammy. She works remotely for Aon Hewitt, which is great for the military lifestyle. She and Russell cannot wait to explore Europe! Katherine Fockler is still in Nashville as a Brand Manager at The Buntin Group. She still doesn’t have a dog. Becky Bicks finished up a year of freelance writing and traveling, with a three-month stint in Memphis. She is in the process of moving back to Brooklyn and is still running her content writing company, Bespectacled Editor. Mamie Kostka lives in Nashville, works at Page Duke as a Landscape Architect, loves living with roommate Katherine Fockler, and can’t wait to meet Abigayle Kostka Farley’s ’04 second baby in September! Lindsey Edwards Rushing loves working at the Bowie Center, teaching senior psychology. She and husband Cameron are expecting their first baby in September! Catherine Smith Denman loved her first year as the librarian and technology integrationist at the St. George’s Memphis
campus! Daughter Adelaide (1.5) is the joy of their lives. Paru Rayudu is completing her final year of ophthalmology residency as chief resident at Saint Louis University, then will take a few months off, and is excited to attend Mimi Arnold’s ’06 wedding this August. Alison Watts loves being in Memphis and is finishing her first year of her dermatology residency. She got engaged to fiancé Michael, and they are planning an April wedding. In her free time, she has been able to hang out with Ellen Bransford, Elliott Machin, and Holly Hendrix. Molly Quinn lives in Brooklyn, working on her first collection of poems, and works as the Director of Housing Works Bookstore Café, which raises money to provide services for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. Kristi Ryan got married to a very nice lady and is moving back to Memphis in June. In Brooklyn, Meredith Robinson is a Senior Creative Recruiter with GreenKey Resources, specializing in staffing creative marketing opportunities within fashion and beauty companies. Melissa Tsiu is finishing up her PGY-1 pharmacy residency at Baptist Memorial Hospital and will be starting a PGY-2 pharmacy residency specializing in critical care at Regional One Health. She will get married in Dallas this June. Beth Pazar works as an associate at a private land use consulting firm and loves the switch to the private sector! She is also an active member of the Junior League of Dallas and of a non-profit called ReBuilding Together Greater Dallas. Ellen Page Moore got married and lives in Seattle with her husband and their dog Percy. She works at Amazon, leading the nonfiction category for Kindle. Kimberly Johnson Radant and husband Matt moved to Grosse Pointe, Mich. this spring. She loves her job as a middle school counselor.