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For the last 20 years, Highlands, N.C., has been home to Caroline Abbott Cook and her husband, Jodie. Upon her arrival in Highlands, Caroline helped the Highlands Mayors Office establish the Highlands Home Delivered Meals Program and continues to volunteer for this cause. She has served on the board of trustees for the Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center, Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music, Highlands Community Players, the Literacy Council, and three terms as president of the Art League. Presently, she is on the board of directors for the League, the Highlands Community Foundation, and serving her second term as president of the Mountain Garden Club. Caroline and Jodie own Highlands Chemical Corporation and Biocat Solutions Company, Inc. Laura Hopkins Corrigan and her husband, Frank, are the parents of three Lovett Alums. Frank ’02 is chief resident at Grady Health Care. McLean ’07 is the events coordinator at the Swan Coach House. Lollie ’09 is a graduate student in The University of Georgia’s master’s in accounting program. They are enjoying life as empty nesters! Margaret Denny Dozier and husband, Scott, live in Atlanta. They are parents to three Lovett graduates, Taylor ’02, Graham ’05, and Maggie ’07. Margaret is active on Lovett’s Board of Trustees. Her son, Taylor, serves Lovett’s Alumni Association as an active member of its Alumni Executive Board and will serve as its president in the 2014–15 year. Daughter Maggie has recently been selected as a Lovett Alumni Class Leader.
Mary Barnwell Eddy and her husband, Mike, live in Duluth, Ga. The couple has seven children (Michael, Jr., Rebecca, Chris, Rachel, Bryan, Laura, and Andrew) and six grandchildren. Van Flanigan lives in Roswell, Ga. She is the vice president of sales for Virtual Driver Interactive. She has two daughters, Katie ’04 and Laura. Katie is married to Jeff Emanuel, who is a senior HarvardX Fellow at Harvard University and a special operations veteran of the Air Force. The couple lives in Boston with their two children, Jack and Kristen. Laura is living in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood as she works towards completing her degree. Birmingham, Ala., is home to Ellen Rogers Hamilton and her husband, Bruce. Ellen is a physical therapist and owns Birmingham Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine. She has two children, Allison and Michael. The couple loves to mountain bike, snow ski, and hiking. Ellen also teaches at the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s School of Physical Therapy. Hollis and Jane Lamon ’74 live in Atlanta and have two sons, Hunter ’00 and Austin ’03. The couple is enjoying their time with their two beautiful grandchildren, Tristan and Annebell. Todd Lowenberg is living in Bethesda, Md., and has two daughters, Hillary and Elizabeth. He is working for Computer Sciences Corporation in government IT data security and internal communications. He is enjoying his days in Bethesda, especially as a volunteer to records books for the
blind, and volunteering for various local theaters and film groups. Jane Zillesen Maynard and her husband, H.D., are retired and living in Southern Pines, N.C. She is “finally” living back in the South after being gone for 20-plus years. The couple has three sons: John, Ross, and Clark. “I had a wonderful Lovett experience, and made some great friends,” says Jane. “In fact, some of us still get together, just like ‘old times.’ They are my roots!” Marwen Payne McDowell and her husband Stewart are 25-year residents of Charlotte, N.C. The couple has two daughters, Mary Owen Calloway and Kathleen Norwicke, and a grandson of two years, Wilson Calloway. Marwen and Stewart keep I-85 “hot” from their frequent travels to visit Wilson, who lives in Chapel Hill. Nancy Budd McWilliams lives in Atlanta and is the proud mom of Allison McWilliams ’05. Allison is living in Miami, Fla., and works as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Valee Sewell Penn and her husband, Dave, live in Atlanta. In 2005, she devoted herself “full time” to painting. In 2007, she started her own business, Valee’s Art and Design. She works in oils and watercolors with her primary focus on scenes of Coastal Georgia, animals, and florals. Susie Elias Rankin and her husband, Rob, live in Smyrna. Susie is a teacher at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Sandy Springs. They have three children, Bo, Krissy, and Jill, and Spring 2014 57