Alumnae Updates
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Updates We love staying connected and want to hear from you. Visit the alumnae page of the website to update your contact information online and to find out about upcoming events. You can also email your address, email and phone number as well as your updates and digital pictures for future Pax et Bonum magazines to: St. Francis High School Laura Hanusek, Alumnae Relations Associate lhanusek@stfrancishs.org 916.737.5026
Spenser Brown ’06 recently purchased a home in Sacramento and works as a Civil Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering on the Folsom Dam. She was hired as the new Varsity Head Coach for the SFHS Lacrosse team and looks forward to this season. Spenser got engaged on Thanksgiving Day while running on Team Troubie with her fiancé Jesse. 12 Lauren Piwinski Burkhardt ’06 married her best friend of four years, Kyle. They live in Camino with their two cats. Kyle is a licensed contractor and Lauren teaches preschool while working on her teaching credential with a Masters in education. They have a home in the Apple Hill area where they help the local farmers. 13
Gina Stack Maraist ’06 married Chris Maraist, whom she met at the University of Portland in Oregon. She works in the Advancement Department for La Salle Prep, a sister school of Christian Brothers in Sacramento. Her husband is an emergency room RN at Oregon Health & Sciences University. Elizabeth Shirey ’06 graduated from UCLA School of Law in May 2014 and just received word that she passed the California bar! Currently, she is a legal fellow at Inner City Law Center in LA, where she works with disabled homeless veterans trying to access VA benefits. Elizabeth Shirey ’06 & Marlena McMurchie Moore ’06 at a UCLA game at the Rose Bowl. 15
Colleen Callaghan ’06 is engaged to Chris Wright ( Jesuit ’05) and getting married on May 9, 2015. Classmate Taryn Wright Sarah Stark ’06 earned a degree from California State ’06 is a bridesmaid. University, Chico, then attended the teaching credential program and received two credentials, Multiple Subject Gillian Emmerich ’06 graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor (Elementary Education) and Education Specialist (Special degree from USF School of Law in May 2013, with a certificate Education). After graduation, she applied to international in Public Interest. In December 2013, she was sworn in to the schools overseas and accepted a one-year position in Panyu, State Bar of California and the United States District Court China teaching 2nd grade Chinese students. Panyu is a suburb for the Northern District of California by the Honorable Lucy of Guangzhou, China, which is a city of 15 million people, H. Koh. 14 located in southern China. The experience gave her the opportunity to travel throughout China, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia. Sarah Gold ’06 recently graduated from UC Davis School of Sarah now teaches Special Education in Sunnyvale, CA. Law and passed the California Bar in November 2014. She was appointed by Governor Brown to serve as a Deputy Legal Sarah Couch ’07 graduated in May 2014 from Sacramento Affairs Secretary in the Office of the Governor. She is engaged State with her MA in English Literature. She currently serves and will be married in May 2015. as the President of the California State Student Association, advocating for the 437,000 students of the CSU system in the Raquel Leon ’06 graduated in May 2013 from California State largest statewide student association in the nation. She is the University, Long Beach where she received a Master’s of Public first female president of the organization. Health with a concentration in Community Health Education. She has since moved back to Sacramento and is currently working as an Air Pollution Specialist with the California Air Resources Board providing outreach and compliance assistance for CARB’s various diesel regulations. Katie Lawlor ’01 married Alex Scott McHardy in July 2013 in Carmel-by-the-Sea. SF classmates Catherine Flynn ’00, Kendall Reedy Skillicorn ’00, Becky Solie ’03, Kerry Lawlor Hernandez ’03, and Erin MacEneaney Weeden ’92 served as bridesmaids. Katie will started a doctorate program in Clinical Psychology at Stanford in fall 2014.
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