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A group of moms who all happen to be alumni, at Field Day 2015. Left to right: Amanda Walker Friz ‘92, Lynne Miller Ratliff ‘88, Deborah E. “Deb” Colbourn ‘92, Dr. Catherine R. “Trina” Salva ‘90 and Melissa Wagner “Missy” Flynn ‘91
Helping Children” initiative that was launched in 2013 to bring our community together in support of the well-being of children. Ashlee Lukoff McCullough ‘97 is working for the YMCA of Austin as one of their membership directors.
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1990 25th Reunion Year
Ashley R. Altschuler and Shoshana “Shana” Altschuler have enjoyed living in Delaware after their move from New York City. Ashley now works at the law firm of DLA Piper LLP (U.S.) in Delaware and New York.
1991
Elizabeth Noseworthy Fitzsimmons is pleased to report that she has been selected for promotion into the Senior Foreign Service of the United States. We’ll be moving ‘home’ to the United States in July 2015 after three years at the U.S. Embassy Sofia, Bulgaria, where I have served as Counselor for Public Affairs. Beginning in August I will begin a new assignment as Director of the New York and Washington Foreign Press Centers.” Paula S. Janssen was featured in the January 2015 Out and About magazine “Local Grocers Up Their Game.
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We received this information about Amanda “Paige” Akin Mudd through the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 8, 2015. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has named Paige Mudd as the newspaper’s new editor— the first woman in that role in its 165-year history. Mudd, currently the newspaper’s managing editor, assumed her new role effective July 1. At 37, Mudd is the youngest editor at the newspaper in at least the past 50 years.
1997
Lawrance Spiller Kimmel was recently named managing partner of the law firm of Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill. Larry just completed his term serving as the president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers’ Association (DTLA). Larry and his wife, Kimberly, welcomed their third child, Brittany Sienna Kimmel, on June 27, 2014. Everett T. Dickerson held a Suicide Prevention Program at Tower Hill School on Oct. 29, 2014. The evening was part of our “Hiller Hearts: Our Community
Matthew O. Rossi lives in Dallas with his wife, Megan Smith Rossi, and one-year-old daughter, Olivia Marie. Matthew graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2007 and is a national account manager for Miller-Coors. Jeff Hobbs’ book, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, was featured in The New York Times under the “Books of the Times” section on Sept. 11, 2014.
2001
Adam Kalamchi, co-founder of Brilliant Bicycles was interviewed on Fox Business News on April 10, 2015 on the Risk & Reward Show. Nicholas A. “Nick” Krill and his Spinto band spin-off, Teen Men, are about to go national!
2002
Betsy Nickle was recently part of an article in ultrarunnerpodcast.com about using her meditative mindfulness during a recent 50k race. Kathryn R. Fortunato and Elizabeth M. “Lizzie” Fortunato were featured in an article in the May 2015 issue of Elle magazine.
2003
Margaret X. “Gogo” Lidz now lives in Seattle and is a staff writer for Newsweek magazine.
2004
Janet Saunders Nida has been busy caring for her young daughter, Emma Elizabeth Nida, down in Charleston.
2005 10th Reunion Year
Nicholas J. Rossi is presently finishing up his first year at the Darden School of Business at UVA and started a summer internship in Houston in June. In November he will marry his fiancé, Marshall Bush, in Boca Grande, Florida, and he will be finishing up his second year at Darden. Nick graduated from the Naval Academy in 2009 and was a nuclear power officer on the USS Harry S. Truman until July 2014, when his five-year commitment was up. At that time, Nick chose to go to business school instead of remaining in the Navy. Kiley E. Trott is a physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kristin Phillips Smith is currently living in Hoboken, New Jersey, with her husband, Kevin. Our heartfelt congratulations and
best wishes to THS faculty member Frank Singles on the birth of his granchildren. Here is the message he sent: Tina Singles delivered 7 lb. 5 oz. boy on Jun. 9, 2015. Mom and baby doing well. We are all elated.
2006
Daisy Lidz now lives in Los Angeles and is a TV producer for Interlude, an interactive media platform with offices in Los Angeles, New York City and Tel Aviv. Elizabeth Glen Capone just finished her fifth year teaching high school Spanish at Sanford School. Beginning June 2015, she will study at Middlebury College Language Schools to pursue her Master of Arts in Spanish over the next four summers.
2007
Kathlyn Gamble is getting ready for her summer wedding to longtime boyfriend, Casey Rivers. Another summer wedding for the class of 2007 is William Lassen to Francine Lizotte, whom he met in college. Scott Nickle trained part of the time in Delaware for the Boston Marathon as the weather in Delaware was better. It paid off as he emailed us that he did much better than last year despite the cold, rainy weather the day of the race. Kory A. Trott won the Best Oral Advocate (Midwest Region) in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition at the 2015 MWBLSA Regional Convention Feb. 18-22, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he represented the University of Wisconsin Law School. He said, “I was looking around the room at the banquet for another Kory Trott when they called my name.” The Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition is an annual national moot court competition. The competition focuses primarily on public and civil rights law and topics of particular relevance to communities of color. Competing in teams of two, competitors must submit appellate briefs during the fall semester and argue orally at regionals. Kory holds a Doctorate of Law (J.D.) from University of Wisconsin Law School, a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Drexel University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Anthropology from The George Washington University. Victoria Mita is now working in international education in Australia, promoting overseas programs for Australian students and supporting American students who are studying in Australia. She arrived there through an interesting means of networking, international experiences of her own and working very hard! She is glad Tower Hill supported global development Tower Hill Bulletin
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