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wonderful celebration and reunion. Best wishes to our 1974 class. May God bless each of you with love, family, and wonderful memories!”
all over the country to help with a wide variety of cases, including deaths, injuries, and product liability.
David McWilliams and his family have lived in Miami for 14 years and he is in his sixth year with U.B.S. Financial Services. He commutes to New York each week. His oldest daughter, Allison, is on a five-month trip around the world; Reid is a junior at Amherst; Cole is a senior in high school; and his youngest daughter, Ivy, is a freshman. “Our household is busy!”
Happily living in Williamsburg, Va., Louise (Patton) Pritchard runs a consulting business that focuses on small- to medium-sized businesses in the public and private sectors. She enjoys serving as executive partner at the Mason School of Business M.B.A. program at The College of William and Mary, where she focuses primarily on leadership development. She has two daughters living in Atlanta and one in Charlotte. She and her husband, Arlie, enjoy spending time with them and with friends at their home on Lake Burton.
“Five grandchildren and one on the way,” shares Jane (Gelzer) Menendez. Enough said! Missy (Groome) Milner lives in Athens and works in Winder. “My three children are all married, and each family has two boys. My six grandsons range from one to nine years and all live close to me. I’m dating a wonderful person. Life is good!”
John Shepard notes that, “I am enjoying the empty nest after putting two children through Lovett and college!”
Kathy (Black) Shoji’s daughter Haley is a PR major at the University of Alabama and graduates in the summer of 2015. Daughter Lillian is a junior at Blessed Trinity High School and very active in the theater and dance programs and plays the piano. “Yasuo and I dressed up our large ponies, Driving Miss Daisy and Charlie Brown, for trick or treating at Halloween. Daisy wore a tiara and tutu and Charlie was quite handsome. Otherwise, I’m painting and counting bales of hay.” Billy Shuford’s son William married in January. Brigadier General Burke Whitman (below) is in Afghanistan serving with the United States Marine Corps. He serves on Lovett’s Board of Trustees, and on the boards of the Toys for Tots Foundation, Defense Policy Board, Federation of American Hospitals, Institute for the Study of War, Marine Corps University, National Museum of the Marine Corps, and his church.
After 30 years working in aerospace for the shuttle program, John Moore is currently enjoying “forced retirement” through a temporary layoff. He has been involved in local community theater for 10 years where he acts, builds sets, does tech work, and spends time with his wife and kids, who also participate in the theater. Chris Olley retired from the DeKalb Medical Examiners Office as a forensic technician 15 years ago. He now works with the same medical examiner, Dr. Joseph Burton, in a consulting firm. They are hired by attorneys Burke Whitman ’74, right, with a BC alum, both enjoying a friendly rivalry from overseas.
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