Members of the Norfolk Academy family gathered for a photograph at the Gomez family reunion last summer. Back row (l to r): Tony Gomez ’74, Vincent Gomez ‘05, and Mike Moore ’85. Middle: Courtney Lupton Fitzpatrick ’97, Kelley Gomez Bimson ‘86, Kate Gomez Rivers ’72, and former faculty member Rita Lupton. Bottom Row: Cole Moore ’20, Sara Bimson ’20, Drew Moore ’20, and Ridge Moore ’18.
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Mrs. Eleanor Baird DeMoors 1105 Trotting Horse Lane Great Falls, VA 22066 edemoors@gmail.com and Mrs. Kary Forrest Guess 1427 Maharis Road Virginia Beach, VA 23455-3935 jandkguess@aol.com and Mrs. Dixcy Arrison Kilduff 1004 Baldwin Ave. Norfolk, VA 23507-1224 kilduffm@verizon.net
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welcomed her fourth child, Shepherd Edward Buccini, on December 29, 2008. The Buccini family is doing well, and the big siblings are thrilled with this newest addition. Greg Imbur married Amy Thut on October 18, 2008. The 20082009 school year marked his sixteenth year as an educator and his third year in the Universit y of Wisconsin system. Harris Kay and his wife Reatha recently welcomed their first child, Elizabeth Therese, born February 24, 2009. He writes, “Everyone is doing great - come see us in Chicago!” Karl Kottke and his wife Tina welcomed their second son, Bae Young “Robert.” Karl jokes that he is the spitting image of his father: he’s bald and he cries when he doesn’t get his way. Older brother Alex is a bit bewildered. Mary Anne Philippakis and her husband Kai are still living in Germany. They welcomed their third child Anna in May 2008. She joins big brothers Niko (5) and Alex (4). 50
Mrs. Jenny Wallach Kittelmann 9801 Culpar Lane Richmond, VA 23236-1627 jkittelm@comcast.net and Mrs. Kristin Witte O’Neil 63 Midland Avenue Glen Ridge, NJ 07028-2031 Kristen.ONeil@simonandschuster.com and Mr. Curtis J. Romig 1194 Beech Valley Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306-3122 cromig@pgfm.com
Nicole Abiouness has been making
her own wine in Napa Valley for almost 10 years now (www.abiounesswines. com). Nicole is also working on becoming an Anusara certified instructor and teaching at the local studio in her home town of St. Helena. She continues to travel in attempts to sell her wine and loves to visit her family in Virginia. Cliff Ashburner and his wife Stewart are busy taking care of their three children: Annie, Kate, and Hobs. Cliff is on the Board of the Kentucky Chapter of the US Green Building Council and was the first attorney in Kentucky to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Kristen Atkins lives in Baltimore, MD and works for the Universit y of Maryland School of Medicine. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, which means that she specializes in high-risk obstetrics. Dara Blachman married Maury Demner on October 20, 2007, at Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk. Erica Blachman Hitchings ’96 was Matron of Honor, and Becky Levin ’90 served as a bridesmaid. Dara and Maury are now living in Silver Spring, MD. Dara recently completed a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, and she is currently the Coordinator of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics in Hyattsville, MD. Tracy Ann
Burman and her husband welcomed a daughter Amelia on November 14, 2008. She was born three and a half months early and was only two pounds. It was a scary and long winter, but she came home after one hundred days in the NICU and she is doing GREAT! She and her two and-a-half year-old brother Ben have a blast together. Tracy continues to work at MediaMall Technologies, working on their latest product, “PlayOn,” from her Seattle home office and she loves it. Tracy’s husband Laurent continues to work at GlobalScholar. She hopes her classmates will call if they find themselves in Seattle. Elyse Tapper Cardon opened a new photography business specializing in true life photography. Check out her website at www.elysecardonphotography. com. She and her husband David ’89 spent a week in Israel in the summer of 2009. Kyle Kennedy and his family, Guyvanna and Skyler Murphy, are enjoying what time they have together during his time off from work. He runs ships overseas, and his schedule this year allowed him to be home for the last two months of summer and then venture back out to sea for a few months. Kyle works in the private sector with Seacor Marine. He has most recently been working in the Patagonia area of Argentina but will be working out of Brazil next time he returns to work. Kyle and his family live in the Lake Shores area of Virginia Beach. Bill Kilby is loving life in San Diego and can’t believe that he’s been in So-Cal for over ten years. He lives four blocks from the Pacific with his wife Alisa
Bill Kilby ’90, wife Alisa, and children, Mayzie (13) and Devin (2) together on the beach.