also teaching a class of open source
where John is pursuing an MBA at
programming at UNC every semester
NYU. Clarke Smith became engaged to
as a Royster teaching fellow. This fall,
Ilyssa McIntyre; they both live in New
he is flying to San Francisco to help
York City. Their wedding is planned
Bay McLaughlin and his fiancée, Becky
for April 26, 2014.
Carvatt, pack for a move to Hong Kong. This is the end of an era: Elliott
2004
drove cross-country with Bay when he
Ω Lindsay St. Clair Brown ’04:
first moved to San Francisco back in
lindsayb85@gmail.com
2006. That trip fulfilled a dream Sean
A great group of NA alums got
Wetmore ’86 instilled in all of them
together with Lindsay Brown, who’s
in 7th grade with the cross-country
currently living in New York, to
project he assigned.
celebrate her grandmother Perk
2003
Brown’s (former 2nd grade teacher)
Ω Catherine Brown McFarland ’03: catherine.b.mcfarland@gmail.com
90th birthday! In attendance were Cart Reilly ’00, Jay Rixey ’03, Tom Rixey ’08, Kirkland Brown ’04, Timmy Brown ’70,
Will Beasley has recently joined
Catherine McFarland ’03, Beau Brown
Tidewater Home Funding, LLC. He is
’05, Liza Brown ’07, Thomas Brown ’12,
excited to be working with one of our
Tip Brown ’01 and Townsend Brown
community’s most trusted home loan
’68. Corey Siegel and his siblings ap-
providers and looks forward to assist-
preciate everyone’s support since their
ing fellow alumni with their mortgage
mother’s passing this past summer
needs. MacKenzie Benton, who lives
at home. In October, Christie Kellam
near Katy Gerloff in Mt. Pleasant,
Snodgrass and her husband, Palmer,
SC, also started a new job this year.
welcomed a son, Parker Lee.
MacKenzie is an account manager for BenefitFocus in Charleston. Daryl
2005
Dawson is pursuing an MBA on the
Ω Katie Flippen ’05:
west coast at the Marshall School of
katieflippen@gmail.com
Business of the University of Southern
Allison Bernstein is currently working
top left Amiral Altia Robin Brown ’04 and Patrick Scott Ellis were
California. Polly Pereos Gellman is
in the Boston area as the speechwriter
excited to be back at Norfolk Academy
at a microfinance nonprofit. In the
teaching 2nd grade boys and helping
fall, Margaret Cox moved to Madrid,
married February 9, 2013, at the Lesner Inn in Virginia Beach, VA. They enjoyed a honeymoon in Placencia, Belize. The couple resides in Richmond, VA.
with the forensics program. She and
Spain, where she is teaching English.
her husband, Jon ’01, live in Norfolk.
Josh Diamonstein is currently in
Katy Gerloff received a master’s in
Washington, DC, getting an MA in
social work in May from the Univer-
international relations at Johns Hop-
sity of South Carolina. She recently
kins School of Advanced International
became the veteran housing services
Studies (SAIS). He will graduate this
case manager at Crisis Ministries, a
spring. Skylar Gallagher is currently
top right Ross Lumpkin ’05 married Brittany Williamson on September 21, 2013, at the Grand Atrium in Vienna, VA. They currently reside in Vienna. Ross is a systems analyst working as a government contractor at Fort Belvoir, and is pursuing a masters in telecommunications. John Crouch was a groomsman. Other ’05 NA alums in attendance were Adam Cohen, Stephen Dunford, Richard Higham-Kessler, Carlon Matthews Ocel and Arjun Sharath. A honeymoon trip to New Zealand and Australia is planned for January 2014.
local homeless shelter. Katy completed
working as a paralegal for Ann Sul-
bottom Carlon Matthews ’05 graduated from the University of
the Malibu Triathlon in September. In
livan ’71 at her newly formed Sullivan
October 2013 Oliver Kawwass and his
Law Group PLC. Alex Kassir and his
wife, Zeinoun, welcomed a son, Dono-
wife, Marissa, had a baby girl, Layla
van Owen Kawwass. Catherine Brown
Grace, last fall. Katie Lampert Kessler
McFarland and her husband, Nate, are
and her husband, Ben, welcomed
still living in Charlottesville. Catherine
daughter Caroline Mae in October
has recently taken a new position at
2013. Caroline Maddock Nachem and
The Covenant School, stepping out of
her husband, Jeff, had a baby girl,
the classroom and into the admissions
Eliana Lyla Nachem, in October. The
department. Greg Mulholland is a sec-
family lives in Virginia and is thrilled
ond year MBA student at the Stanford
with their new addition. Alli McKee is
Graduate School of Business and is
living in Johannesburg, South Africa,
living in Redwood City, CA. Austin
where she is teaching entrepreneurial
Richmond School of Law in May 2012 and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in November 2012. She married Rob Ocel on April 13, 2013, at Christ & St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk. The couple met at Duke in 2006. Other alums in attendance included mother of the bride Linda Gibson Matthews ’72, bridesmaid Catherine Wilkes Jones ’05, Kim Paschall ’05, Katie Lampert Kessler ’05, Nadia Islam ’05, Meredith Guzman ’05, Margaret Cox ’05, Ross Lumpkin ’05, Richard HighamKessler ’05, Jamie Deal ’04, Brandon Woodard ’95, Sally Kellam ’72, Kirkland Molloy Kelley ’72 and Heather Hollowell ’72. Carlon and her husband live in Alexandria, where she is currently working for Legal Services of Northern Virginia. Carlon and her classmates posed for an NA photo at the wedding, from left to right: Meredith Guzman, Nadia Islam, Kim Paschall, Richard Higham-Kessler, Carlon Matthews Ocel, Katie Lampert Kessler, Ross Lumpkin, Margaret Cox and Catherine Wilkes Jones.
Brett Oelschlager and her husband,
leadership and creative arts at the
John, recently moved to New York City,
African Leadership Academy. She has
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