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Project creates an environment for lasting change so communities can lift themselves out of poverty by partnering with Kenyan schools to improve access to quality education and with women to manage a successful jewelry and craft making business. This year, The TARA Project expanded its work to include school sanitation. Through a partnership with Germany-based World Yoga Day, they built top-of-the-line bathrooms at their partner schools. Alyssa, her partner Steven, and their son, Wilder, live in Atlanta, where they enjoy wild mushroom foraging in their spare time.
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John Singleton and his wife, Corinne, welcomed the addition of their third child and first daughter, Clara Corinne, on August 21. They live in Ft. Collins, Colo., where John is an assistant professor in the department of geosciences at Colorado State University. Clara’s grandmother is Peggy Phillips Singleton ’71.
Great times for three moms in the Class of 1998; they each have a baby who will turn 1 year old this fall. Kate Meredith Andrade has Olivia Andrade, Allison Kriener Angelillo has Grace Angelillo, and Lindsey Stuart has Lucy Damweber. All three love getting together in Austin. Stacey Wells-Deville and her husband had a son, Jeremy “Cade” Deville, who was named after her brother Jeremy Wells ’00 in November 2014. The family lives in Austin, Texas. Daniel Young has left the University of Texas's AT&T Hotel and Conference Center to revamp an old Austin favorite, Dirty Martin's. Please stop by and say hello to him and enjoy the newly decorated Austin icon.
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Kwasi Agbottah ’00 and his family Kwasi Agbottah was a history major in college, thanks in part to Mrs. Respess, and met his wife teaching. They spent their first seven years of marriage teaching in different places and finally settled down in San Antonio after Kwasi's life was threatened in east Austin. Currently, they are both preschool teachers with Country Home Learning Center, where their children, Abraham and Elijah, also attend. Justin Crosby exhibited spherical sculptures in an exhibit called “Making: The Effort” in the Scanlan Gallery in the Helm Fine Arts Center and spoke at a gallery reception on Aug. 30. His exhibit was written up in the Austin American-Statesman. Although he graduated with a B.A. from Swarthmore College and
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Alyssa Lowe has been “working for the CDC Foundation on a Gates funded global cervical cancer program and running a nonprofit organization, The TARA Project (www.taraproject.org), in Kenya. The TARA
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Don’t forget to join the Class of ’99’s Facebook group.
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Spring 2016 Campus Events FEBRUARY 27 Spring Swing Gala MARCH 14-28 Spring Break/Easter Break APRIL 1 Grandparents Day APRIL 9, MAY 14 & JUNE 11 School Nights at the Observatory MAY 15 Towner Piano Recital MAY 20 Baccalaureate MAY 21 Upper School Graduation MAY 27 US/MS Closing Ceremonies
For more detailed information about upcoming events, visit www.sstx.org/MySSES. (left to right:) Olivia Andrade, Grace Angelillo and Lucy Damweber
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