Biking Bulldogs – Many of NA alumni, students, and faculty gathered on October 24th for the Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore bike trip. Back Row: Michelle Barry Warden ’84, Jeni Meyers Wetmore ’89, Sean Wetmore ’86, Elizabeth Hope (FF), Ben Payne ’80, Coach Tom Duquette, Bryan Duquette ’96, Eric Acra ’84, Nathan Pyle ’12, Susan Duquette, Ruth Payne Acra ’84 2nd Row: Matthew Wetmore ’21, David Pyle ’17, Jay Wetmore ’17, Peyton Hope ’19, Richard Hope, Jack Payne, Eric Hope ’17, Taylor Acra ’17 Front Row: Lee Payne ’42, Madison Acra ’14, Mr. Tom Berkley Catherine Pyle ’14 1500 Eleanor Court
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Matthew Gallagher (son of Amy Anton Gallagher ’86), Julia and Anne Werner (daughters of Catherine Baillio Werner ’86) and Christopher Signorelli ’21 (son of Kitty Drury Signorelli ’86) enjoying a great day at the beach.
Samantha Noona Gleason ’97 (center) and her husband Eric (far right) continue to enjoy teaching Tae Kwon Do at their school “Blue Heron Tae Kwon Do” in Redmond, OR. Both are 2nd degree black belts and are now training for nationals.
piece "After the Storm" made its debut in Burn Magazine in March 2009 and has since been featured at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph and in Surfer’s Journal. In November 2009, it will be part of solo exhibitions in both Michigan and Washington, DC. Images from the project will be featured in a piece for the New York Times on-line later this summer. It is available in book form through www.chrisbickford.com/wp. A concert reading of Ellen Craft: A New American Opera was presented at the Cell Theatre on Oct 12, 2009, starring Sherry Boone and other luminaries from opera and Broadway. Sherry played a half-black, half-white woman (Ellen Craft) who escapes from slavery disguised as a white
man traveling with “his slave.” Rebecca Chadwin works in Pharmaceutical Sales in New Haven, CT. Her twins Gabrielle and Jonah turn two years old this summer. She hopes anyone from the Class of ’85 who visits CT will be in touch. Steve Zahn began 2009 with a new job as a partner at the law firm of Bowman, Green, Hampton, and Kelly in Chesapeake, VA. His daughter Jessi ’15 is in the sixth grade, and his son JT ’18 is in the third grade; both attend Norfolk Academy. Steve enjoys plent y of fishing and beach-going.
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Mr. Chris Dotolo 505 Mockingbird Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23451 cdotolo@norfolkacademy.org Alan Baydush and his wife Lori
enjoyed a September beach vacation with John Wroton’s family on their 14th annual Outer Banks weekend. Danny Rosin and Robert Fiveash ’87 and their company Brand Fuel received recognition as one of the Top 100 Small Businesses in North Carolina by Business Leader Magazine, recognition as one of the Top 100 Promo Shops in the industry by Promo Magazine, and they won a National Best Marketing Campaign award from ASI Central and Counselor Magazine. They write that “the short guy partnership is hanging tough” at Brand Fuel!
Norfolk, VA 23508-1046 tberkley@cox.net and Mr. Pat McCarthy 320 Wagner Road Northfield, IL 60093-3251 patrick.mccarthy@accenture.com and Mr. Andy McCraw 1429 Bolling Avenue Norfolk, VA 23508-1303 amccraw@cox.net and Mr. Richard Ottinger 1223 Manchester Avenue Norfolk, VA 23508-1122 rottinger@vanblk.com and Mrs. Tina Grimstead Rider 701 N. Owen Street Alexandria, VA 22304-2253 Christine.rider@verizon.net Patrick McCarthy, John Mitchell, and Hunter Dorroh met in Park Cit y, Utah, for a week of skiing in 2009.
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Mrs. Jennifer Magpoc Burroughs 1090 Grand Oak Lane Virginia Beach, VA 23455-7218 jmbcmc@cox.net and Ms. Tamara J. Hamlin 2819 Belaire Cir. Doraville, GA 30340-3215 tamarahamlin@yahoo.com
Michael B. Day, the owner of Exotic Home, opened a second store in Norfolk recently. He and his fiancée Tiffany Sisolak were featured in the Gracious Living section of the Virginian Pilot in April 2009.
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