Briony Thornton with her husband and bridesmaids
MARGRET CONLEY (Bolten ’88) currently lives in Kununurra and has been married to Lance for nineteen years. They have six children ranging from two to seventeen years. They have chosen to homeschool their children, which they have found very interesting. Their two oldest girls, who are fourteen and seventeen, have competed nationally in equestrian events, and are now training a young mare. Margret and her husband enjoy teaching their children, although their lives are very busy as they also run a large helicopter charter business. AINSLIE MITCHELL (’90) and her partner, Damian, welcomed their twins, Ruby and Felix, to the world on 31 December 2011. Ainslie is a Clinical Nurse at Princess Margaret Hospital and works in cardiothoracic surgery at St John of God Hospital in Subiaco. NARELLE SIM (Norrish ’92) married Matt Simm on 5 May 2012. They have a baby girl, Sophie, born in June 2011. SHANNON MEYERKORT (Rowe ’94) has returned to her true love in writing, after spending almost a decade working in health research in Sydney. With three daughters under six, she tends only to work at night. Shannon has published in two national magazines, has a popular blog, Relentless, is a senior writer at Weekend Notes, and is currently being thwarted by her first novel. KAREN HASELDINE (Panarese ’96) and her husband, Brad, recently welcomed their first child, Chase Edward, into the world in February 2012. Karen returned to the workforce from maternity leave in January 2013 to work in community development consulting. SARAH GODKIN (Chong ’96) currently lives in Perth with her husband, Paul, and daughters, Chloe and Alice. Both girls are enrolled to attend St Mary’s. Sarah works as a corporate tax advisor for ATCO Australia, a Canadian structures and logistics company. KYM MCDONALD (Denison ’97) was married in 2012 and honeymooned in the UK and Greece. Kym had a baby girl in February 2013, and is currently working as a primary school teacher at Rosalie Primary School in Shenton Park. JESS GETHIN (Walker ’97), had her second baby in January 2013. Baby girl, Olivia, joins older brother, Finn. JULIA CARATTI (’00) married Brad Durack in the grounds of her childhood home on the banks of the Ord River in Kununurra in July 2012. Julia’s mother, Judy Hughes, who is a Marriage Celebrant, officiated at the ceremony. Julia’s attendants included former St Mary’s students Kelly Cripps (Fewster, ’00), Maria Bolten-Magnay (Bolten, ’00) and Sarah Gould (’00). Other former St Mary’s girls who attended the wedding included Jodie Becker (’00), Jane Rose (Fisher, ’00), Emily Haley (Gould, ’02), Bonnie Cole (’00), Kate Scanlon (’02), Katrina Boshammer (’07), Tobi Farquhar (’06), and Margaret Conley (Bolten ’88). Julia and Brad now live in Broome.
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SARAH MOORE (Davies ’00) is currently living in Dunsborough with her husband, Brad, and daughter, Alice. They had their second child in May 2013. Sarah is currently working as a GP obstetrician in Busselton, as well as a medical coordinator for the Rural Clinical School of WA, and as Director of the Postgraduate Medical Education Unit for WA Country Health Services. KATE WELLINGTON (’00) finished third in her class at the Law School at UWA. She then went on to complete her Masters in Law at Oxford University, and has since been working at Linklaters in London. Kate has just accepted a position at Which?, where she will work in consumer advocacy with their in-house legal team. AMY LITTLE (Twining ’02) and her husband, Mike, are expecting their first child (a girl) in September this year. Amy is currently the Performing Arts Coordinator and Secondary Music and Drama Specialist at Georgiana Molloy Anglican School (GMAS) in Busselton. She has been at GMAS for four years and is enjoying living in the country and has recently built a house in the region. Amy is looking forward to the new adventures that motherhood will present this year. ANNA JOHNSON (’02) was selected as the UN Women Australia Youth Delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women for 2013. The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global policy making body, dedicated exclusively to gender equality and the advancement of women. Anna is the first West Australian to have been awarded the role, and travelled to New York in March 2013 with the official Australian delegation to participate in international negotiations in relation to gender inequality. BHAVANI KANNAN (Parameswaran ’03) married Rajaraman Kannan in Singapore in August 2011. They have just had a daughter, Manasa Kannan. TALITHA SANTINI (’03) completed her PhD in Soils Science at UWA in 2012, then moved to Canada to continue her research at McMaster University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She recently received an Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian Government to support this research. At the end of 2013, Talitha will be moving to Brisbane to commence a position as Lecturer in Environmental Management in Mining at the University of Queensland. BRIONY THORNTON (Hookey ’04) married Scott Thornton on 4 November 2012. Bridesmaids included Erin Hookey (’02), Sophia Breytenbach (’04), Ashleigh Harrold (’04) and Fiona Stretch (’04).