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chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, and cat, and keeping up with her husband Christian’s company, Woodfield Property Management. Ethan Staats tied the knot with the lovely Lisa Shore in May 2015. They live in Atlanta with their family, where Ethan is a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Dr. Scott Kelly, the co-medical director at Resurgens Spine Center specializing in non-operative spine care and spinal injections, electrodiagnostic medicine, and sports medicine, has published his first book, What I’ve Learned from You: The Lessons of Life Taught to a Doctor by his Patients. It was reviewed in the Manhattan Book Review by Gretchen Wagner, in which she said, “Dr. Kelly has written a beautiful memoir marked by humility and wonder as he recalls patients who have had a lasting impact on his life. Far from the pompous, omniscient, and aloof clinician, Kelly is all too aware of his own failings as he struggles through medical school, residency, stints in the ER, and the tightrope balance between work and family. Although warned to keep his interactions with patients “strictly professional” (i.e., detached), he allows himself to open up to some of them, to listen, and then to learn. This book is his journey through those lessons.” Morgan (Meredith) Tjepkema owns a residential remodeling company, Remodel South Inc, in Atlanta with her husband. Their projects include whole-house renovations, additions, kitchens, basements, bathrooms, and
Alumni Profile: Dan Gordon ’95 In August 2015, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed
appointed Dan Gordon ’95 as the city’s new chief operating officer. “He brings to us a wealth of senior leadership and operating experience,” Reed said. After graduating from Lovett in 1995, Gordon received his undergraduate degree from Emory University and a master’s degree in finance and real estate from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Prior to joining the City of Atlanta, Gordon held several senior operating positions including serving as an executive at The Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses. Gordon recently spoke to fellow alumni at Lovett’s Alumni Association’s business speaker series. His lecture offered a compelling look inside the City of Atlanta.
outdoor living spaces. They live in Dunwoody with their children, Meredith (14) and Warner (12). When Glen Davis isn’t traveling with his family, he lives in New York City with his wife and two children. He is a psychiatrist with the Center for Urban Community Services, an agency in New York that provides psychiatric treatment to homeless individuals through supportive housing, shelters, and street outreach. He also directs the agency’s program for drug overdose prevention. Recently, he was appointed to serve as the psychiatrist for Manhattan’s Intensive Mobile Treatment Team, a new initiative funded by the Office of the Mayor, designed to serve the most marginalized individuals in the city’s mental health system.
Honor Woodard writes, “I love my work in integrative body work and therapeutic massage these last five years. Licensed in Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, I work mainly in Clayton and Highlands. I’m also still actively engaged in fine art photography.” Her photography is currently featured on one of her teacher’s websites, www.touchofpresence.com. Doree (Dobbs) Boswell lives in Athens, Georgia, and writes, “Our 16-year-old son, Taylor, plays football, basketball, and runs track. Liza (14) plays volleyball and cheers. So, we are wild busy with children’s sports schedules.” Doree and Elaine (Wright) Hynes see each other every day, as they both work at Athens Academy. Elaine moved to Atlanta from New Jersey last year. She is a teacher’s assistant in first grade, and Doree works with K4. “All of our chil-
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