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Advertising Age listed Fitz Maro ’11 as one of 11 global “Creatives You Should Know.” Jeffrey D. Zeiders received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 2015. He and wife Mary-Lacey Zeiders live in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he is director of learning and development at a government contracting firm. Jess McKenzie Mays married Zachary in January 2015. Maggie Lilley ’07 attended the reception. They live in Venice Beach, California, where Jess is director of customer success for Twenty20. Ryan Lacey married Elizabeth van Berg in October 2014. They honeymooned in Maui and live in Fairfax, Virginia. Karin Curtis moved to Los Angeles with her fiancé and is an attorney at Gordon & Rees in commercial litigation. Emily Frank Poulin and husband Josh welcomed their second baby, Thomas, in May.

Brent Monseur started an OB/ GYN residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia after completing his M.D. at the Medical College of Virginia. He served three years on the board of Medical Students for Choice and participated in NASA’s aerospace medicine clerkship at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Charlotte Rowell Sellier and husband Joel welcomed their third daughter, Margaux Claire, in September. In June, Courtland E. Crenshaw earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is continuing his training in emergency medicine at Case Western MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Jeslyn Thomas married Jomy Methipara in Chicago in June. Amy Brewer, Sarah Price, Sherin Stephen, and Julia Sullivan ’07 attended. Jeslyn is a third-year medical student at Ross University, and her husband is a patent attorney. They live in Arlington, Virginia.

2009 Elizabeth Jennings elizabethsjennings@gmail.com Alexandra Meier alexandra.m.meier@gmail.com

Andrew Hogan Andrew.hogan819@gmail.com

Kira Lanewala klanewala@gmail.com

Christian Vega is a third-year law student at the University of

Elizabeth Crowe ’12 plans to teach English in Chile before heading to Uruguay to teach on a Fulbright grant. Fitz Maro was named by Advertising Age magazine as one of 11 global “Creatives You Should Know.”

Michelle Bond Kappert michellekappert@gmail.com

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Kelly Caldwell kellyecaldwell@gmail.com

Mandi Solomon msolomon211@gmail.com

William Backus is the author of A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9-19, 1863, recently published by Savas Beatie. Matthew Brooks and Michelle Esch-Brooks, business and marketing manager for UMW Residence Life, welcomed daughter Teresa Ann in July 2015.

Courtney Melchione received her doctorate of optometry and planned to move to Guatemala to work in a community health clinic.

Laura Summers married John Patrick Maher III in May. They

Amanda Buckner McVicker amandabuckner1@gmail.com

Hannah Hopkins hannahhopkins89@gmail.com

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In April, Jonathan Wigginton and Erin Cox ’11 were married in Cleveland, Ohio. Jonathan proposed to Erin in Monroe Hall, where the two had met in early 2009 for the annual European Capitals Tour orientation.

2013

From Amanda: Paola Alexandra Maldonado-Torres received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law in May. She earned the Carrico Center Pro Bono Certificate for completing more than 300 hours of pro bono legal work.

Sadly, Genine Catherine Geissler passed away on July 27, 2016.

Rachael Wonderlin lives in Pittsburgh, where she is director of memory care at a senior living community. She is the author of When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community, which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in October. She blogs at Dementia By Day.

Johns Hopkins University Press published Rachael Wonderlin ’11’s When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community. Samantha Staebell Bosserman is director of communications and board development for the Virginia School Boards Association. She and husband David live in Waynesboro, Virginia, where Sam was elected president of the Kiwanis Club. She also has been very involved in Relay for Life.

live in Chesterfield, Virginia. James Garman and Kelly Landau Garman expected their first child in August. Rebecca Groman married Charles Griffin in June, and they expected a child in September. Sarah Payne married Matthew Belardi in April. They live in Baltimore.

Matthew DeMarr ’10 and Chrissy Boyer DeMarr welcomed their second child, a daughter, Mary Anna Lynne. Elizabeth Crowe completed a master’s degree in education from George Mason University and received a Fulbright grant to teach English in Uruguay from March to November 2017. Before heading to Uruguay, Elizabeth planned to teach English in Chile for several months.

Richmond School of Law. He was a summer clerk in Fairfax, Virginia, for Surovell Isaacs Petersen & Levy. Shelby Sanders received a master’s degree in earth and atmospheric sciences from the University of Alberta in June. I married William H. McVicker III in October 2015. The bridal party included Kat Dickinson ’12 and Emily Sherman ’14, and guests included Jen Crystle, Kate Johnson, and Ashley Nixon ’12.

2014 Stephanie Preston sepreston91@gmail.com Elizabeth Storey estorey@mail.usf.edu

2015 Evan Smallwood esmallwood15@gmail.com

2016 No Class Agent classnotes@umw.edu

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