alumn i n ews
Winter 2013
we were fortunate enough to catch a particularly gaudy sunset there. All in all, it was a great trip!
1975 M ary B randt, mlb0320@aol.com S ylvia M c I ntyre - C rook , sycrook1@cox.net
1976 K im Fairey
kim.fairey@gmail.com
1977 R obert E ttinger
robert@ettlaw.com
Dana Painter Parkey ’77 is “sorry to have missed our 35th reunion, but it looks like we were well represented!”
1978 K athy N orwood
katrijohn07@yahoo.com Kimberlie Birdwell Barrett ’78 wrote “I’m sorry I wasn’t able to attend Alumni Reunion Weekend this year. I was down in Austin the first part of October visiting family. I am never there long enough to see everyone. Montana is snowy now. I am excited about getting my skis out for some cross country adventures with my dogs. My Pilates studio is keeping me busy. I travel to Las Vegas next week for the annual Pilates Method Alliance Conference and I will get to see my mentor and friend Wendy LeBlancArbuckle from Austin. I just recently graduated six
Landis Armstrong ’85, Jennifer Dossett ’81, Paula Nelson, Martha Louise Armstrong ’81, Landis Hagerty, Tamara Dossett Sell ’82, Shannon Armstrong ’82 and Finn Hagerty
1980 M iles W right
miles@veatchwright.com
The St. Stephen’s student ensemble group, Theatre Focus, has been rehearsing under the direction of the award-winning John Ratliff ’80. John teaches and performs improv in Austin at ColdTowne, the Institution and the Hideout theaters. He was named Best Improv Teacher in the Austin Chronicle’s 2011 Best of Austin critics’ poll and voted Best Teacher or Coach in the 2011 ColdTowne awards. He has trained at iO and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago.
students from the Level 3 Course for Pilates. I continue to be passionate about movement and the importance of exercise for a long healthy life.”
1981 charlotteesbrigham@yahoo.com
C arroll L ively R eeser
carroll@reeser.net
Christopher Smith ’79 said that “after 12 years working in the Middle East in merchant banking, my firm recently merged with a boutique investment bank headquartered in Washington, D.C. I am now director of Taylor DeJongh and will remain in Atlanta and work primarily with our Washington, London, Dubai and Beirut offices.”
E rica P eters S tafford
Erica.Stafford@bvcpa.com
Martha Louise Armstrong ’81 reported that she and a group of friends had a mini-reunion outside of Boulder this past summer and at the beginning of September. The summer group included Landis Armstrong ’85, who based in Austin but plays in Colorado regularly, Jennifer Dossett ’81, the one and only Paula Nelson, Martha Louise Armstrong ’81, Landis Hagerty (son of M.L. Armstrong ’82, and Finn Hagerty (son of M.L. Armstrong).
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School
wendy.naughton@gmail.com
The daughter of Tamara Dossett Sell ’82, Avery, is a junior at SSES this year. Mary Vondran Pontbriand ’82 wishes she could have been at Reunion. She still lives in New Hampshire. “My kids are growing up. My oldest just started college. Where has the time gone? St. Stephen’s feels like yesterday.”
My oldest got married Nov. 3, 2012. The two younger boys started high school. I volunteer at the high school whenever I can, but I only speak to the boys if they find me somewhere and speak first. I also work at a karate studio in our small town. I am enrollment director, which is really just a fancy title for someone who signs up students. My two younger sons are working toward their second degree black belts. I have not started my training yet. Maybe sometime soon, but my boys would be my teachers.”
plays lead guitar for the Paula Nelson Band, which is
Armstrong), Tamara Dossett Sell ’82, Shannon
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W endy W hite N aughton
Kimberly Reid Seals ’82 said “life is full with my sons.
C harlotte S tuckey B righam
1979
1982
1983 L aura M ears M irecki
llynnmir@aol.com.
Caroline Blake Faris ’83 and her family have moved