a master’s in public health at Columbia and now works for the HIV Prevention Trials Network as a senior clinical research manager. Tom got a master’s in architecture in 2003 and works for Linton Architects. They have daughters Holly and Penny and a rescue mutt named Poca. Julie Garner Goodrich is married with two daughters, Josephine, 5, and Ava, 3. She lives in Northern Virginia and works at Management Concepts in Tysons Corner. Sara Goode and Ryan Kaye ’99 became friends while playing softball and baseball at Mary Washington. Twenty short years later they got married! They now live in Richmond. Darien Berkowitz Jacobson, husband Andy, and their twin sons moved to Seattle this summer.
1999
Amanda Goebel Thomas goebel_amanda@hotmail.com
2000
Jennifer Burger Thomas jenntec14@gmail.com Irene Schinkel Bristow and David Bristow ’01 are glad their third child, daughter Helena, is doing well after spending her first 2½ months in the NICU due to a rare feeding problem unaccompanied by any other genetic anomaly or syndrome. The problem is slowly resolving itself, and Helena is healthy and happy, enjoying normal toddler activities. The Bristow family asks for and appreciates prayers from their MWC alumni family. Irene home schools older daughter Amelia, 10, and son Linden, 5, and especially enjoys teaching them art and music. David enjoys tennis, assistant coaching at a local high school, and working with the Catholic youth in their parish.
children Ryan, 9, and Rebecca, 6, and their 14-year-old Shiba Inu, Riggo. Kevin Perry teaches Latin at the National Cathedral School in Washington. He earned an M.Ed. in Latin from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He’s working out the bugs in his vintage motorcycle rebuild, a 1973 Triumph that he used to ride to classes at MWC.
2001
Annie Johnston anniebatesjohnston@gmail.com Caroline Jarvis recently changed jobs but continues to work in London in charity investment management. In January she plans to marry Alex Gee, whom she met through mutual friends. Last January Alan J. Dean retired from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, after 42½ years of service. Angela Mills is director of alumni relations for the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Angela is president of the University of Mary Washington Alumni Association through June 2018. Read more about Angela on page 27.
to local acclaim. He bought a home in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans and got engaged to Allison Albert of Maytown, Pennsylvania. She is CEO of the pet costume company Pet Krewe, and he is founder and chairman of the HIV awareness iKnow Concert Series across Uganda. The 2001 Women’s lacrosse team was inducted into the University of Mary Washington Athletic Hall of Fame. From 2001, the team included Bridget Geiman Dickensheets, Allyson Bristor Brekke, Jenni Foy Smith, Karen Slotsky, and Kate Weller. Heather Carter Vorderbrueggen ’00 (an honorary 2001 senior) was honored as well as members of the 2002, 2003, and 2004 classes.
2002
Travis Jones tljones8@gmail.com Carolyn Murray Spencer turtlecjm@yahoo.com
Virginia Henley Watkins married Edward James “E.J.” Watkins in May 2017. Virginia is a family nurse practitioner in Richmond, Virginia. Rachel Cain Carter attended the wedding. Rachel lives in Culpeper, Virginia, with husband Jon Madelyn Marino ’01 ran a half marathon in Carter ’97 and their two children. Montana in her quest to complete one in Last October, every state. Rachel and Virginia went to San Francisco to visit Lani Carnill owns BetterPlanIt former roommate Sharon Carroll Consulting, helping finance teams and family, including baby Amelia. become trusted advisers to architects and engineers. She plans to live in Madrid, Spain, in 2018.
Madelyn Marino plans to marry Michael Walker of New Jersey in summer 2018. Madelyn traveled with Jennifer Amore and me, Annie Johnston, to Montana in June. We hiked and enjoyed spectacular scenery in Glacier National Park, and Madelyn ran the inaugural Glacier Half Marathon Kevin Perry ’00 is rebuilding the 1973 Triumph in her quest to motorcycle he used to ride to classes at MWC. complete a half marathon in every state. Kate Amey Degnan is a tenure-track Andrew Ward earned a Ph.D. in assistant professor of psychology at international development from Tulane the Catholic University of America. University in New Orleans, where She lives in Falls Church, Virginia, his adults-only children’s book, A with husband Matt Degnan ’99, Bourbon Street Sojourn, was published
2003
Jessica Brandes jessbrandes@yahoo.com Katherine Stephens completed a fellowship with the progressive New Leaders Council and was elected to the Board of Education in Schenectady, New York, where she lives with husband Drew Pearson. In April, Kendra Hitz Steele presented the distinguished alumnus microbiology and immunology seminar at East Carolina University, where she completed a Ph.D. in 2010. She has mutated a sexually transmitted virus that sterilizes the Helicoverpa zea pest, commonly known as corn earworm, an insect costing U.S. farmers billions of dollars
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