Emily Barrett ’04 writes: “I will be getting married on November 29, 2014 to Thomas Hovis, also from Richmond. He is a graduate of St. Chris. and HSC. Since graduating from Virginia Tech in 2008 I have worked in Governor McDonnell’s administration starting as a political assistant and ending as the director of appointments to boards and commissions. I currently do political consulting for Ed Gillespie, who is running for U.S. Senate. I also serve on the Teach for America Advisory Board.”
Class of 2005 Katie Willis Reichbach ’05 got married on December 28, 2013 in Richmond to Rich Reichbach of New York. Trinity alumni in the wedding party were Ellie Donahue Boyd ’04, Elaine Gregory ’05, Casie Bennett ’05 and Matt Willis ’00. Other Trinity alumni in attendance were Matt Curtis ’03, Jeff Curtis ’06, Thomas Raines ’06 and David Staples ’05. Katie is studying art direction at the VCU Brandcenter and Rich works in the jewelry and antiquities business. Katie is interning at the Martin Agency’s Kitchen this summer and is one of 35 students from around the world who attended the Roger Hatchuel Academy at Cannes Lions in France in June.
Class of 2006 Ashley Brooke Johnson ’06 graduated from the University of Virginia in May 2010 with a bachelor of arts in Spanish. She completed her pre-med prerequisites at the University of Maryland in May 2012 and then attended Shenandoah University’s accelerated second degree program in nursing. Ashley graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science in nursing in December 2013. Ashley writes: “I recently accepted a clinical RN position in the Residency Nursing Program at Washington Hospital Center in a Cardiology Intermediate Care Unit. I got engaged in April to James E. Crowder and we are actively planning our wedding for August 2015 to be held at Sunday Park in Brandermill. I currently live in Hyattsville, Maryland. I plan on furthering my education at the end of the residency program.”
Class of 2007 Page Dunbar ’07 writes: “I graduated from UVA’s School of Nursing in 2011. Since graduating, I have been living in Arlington, Virginia. I am a high-risk pregnancy nurse at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland. I made it to a few TES basketball games this past winter — the school is looking great.” Holly McMurtry ’07 graduated magna cum laude from VCU with a B.S. in clinical radiation sciences on May 10, 2014. She is in Lambda Nu, national honor society for the radiologic and imaging sciences.
Class of 2008
Sarah Goldstein Taylor ’05 graduated from Sweet Briar College five years ago and this spring received her master’s in the art of teaching from Mary Baldwin College. This fall she will begin teaching second grade at Bellevue Elementary School in the city of Richmond. Morgan Taylor Pilkington ’05 wed Taylor Pilkington on May 25, 2014 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The couple recently moved to Richmond from New York City. Morgan writes: “After receiving my master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) from Teachers College, Columbia University, I taught at DREAM Charter School in East Harlem. This fall, I will begin teaching in Chesterfield County Public Schools. Taylor will continue working in publishing, moving from Oxford University Press to the position of associate editor for Virginia Living magazine. We are excited to return to our home state!”
Robert Warnerford-Thompson ’08 writes: “I am getting ready to start a PhD program this fall: I’ll be studying biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergrad I participated in a summer research program funded by the HHMI at Washington and Lee, where I worked with my genetics professor, Dr. Paul Cabe, on a molecular ecology project, studying the DNA of tropical bats from Mexico to help assess biodiversity and environmental impacts of development.” Robert says he is interested in applying statistical mechanics to model cellular behavior: “…basically trying to figure out what every molecule inside one cell is doing, using advanced light microscopes and fluorescent probes. It’s a new field that’s being pushed by rapidly advancing imaging techniques, and I’d love to ‘ride the wave’ as we learn more about life at unprecedented levels of resolution!” “I still remember first being exposed to some of these concepts in Mrs. Truman’s biology class and am forever indebted to her for her attentive and detailed teaching,” he writes. “When I took a GRE exam last fall, I was still using my old notes from her AP Biology class to study!” Matthew Rocawich ’08 earned his master’s of accountancy degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2013. He works as an accountant for Mitchell & Wiggins in Richmond.
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