CLASS NOTES International to improve the lives of those with disabilities. Kristine Reid Milne spends her workdays making babies: She is the lead manager of a Virginia branch of Shady Grove Fertility. When she’s not adventuring with her two boys, Alison Martin Simpson preserves history in St. Augustine, Florida, as the historian for the Florida National Guard. Julie Houts Frame is loving life in Sedona, Arizona, and is the lead pharmacist for a CVS. Annette Hibbert Nelson just had her second son in February 2018 and co-founded Silver Oaks Cooperative School, a nonprofit private school in Maryland. As for me, Jennifer Burger Thomas, my husband and I have dreamed of living in Asheville, North Carolina, and we recently made that happen. We are unpacking and settling in. I am self-employed, doing environmental consulting.
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Annie Johnston anniebatesjohnston@gmail.com Carla Villar Walby is a registered nurse with the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and manages the Federal Occupational Health Clinic for the agency. She lives in Reston, Virginia, with husband Nathan Walby and 8-year-old son Elvis. Carla was expecting a daughter in April 2019. Madelyn Marino sold her NYC apartment and purchased her first house with her husband, Michael Walker, in Glen Rock, New Jersey. She now walks to the train station instead of the subway. Michael easily commutes to Ramsey, New Jersey, where he teaches high school math. I, Annie Johnston, visited in December to help them decorate. In July 2018, Jacquie Frank Caswell and husband Rory welcomed their third child, Madeline Grace. Big brothers Evan, 5, and Colin, 3, were thrilled to have a sister.
Andrew Ward and Allison Albert of Maytown, Pennsylvania, eloped in Sri Lanka in late 2017. She is the CEO of Pet Krewe pet costume company, and he is founder and chairman of the HIV Awareness “iKnow Concert” Series across Uganda and Rwanda. The series returned to East Africa with an all-star lineup including Michael Franti and Vusi this spring. Read more about Andrew on page 42. Teresa Joerger Mannix is senior assistant dean for communications at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she has worked for nearly a decade. She recently completed an executive certificate program at Georgetown in leadership and change management. Teresa lives in Gainesville, Virginia, with her husband and two sons.
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Jessica Brandes jessbrandes@yahoo.com Marcy “Lee” Crockett Darcy began working on a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at New England College last January. She was delighted to discover that one of the professors is Allison Titus ’98!
Lt. Cmdr. Lauren Cameron Fiske, Stephanie Scheibe Barb was promoted to Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, completed her active duty service Registered nurse Carla Villar Walby ’01 obligation at Fort Belvoir Community manages the Federal Occupational Health Hospital as an Clinic for the Department of Justice, Office attending physician of Justice Programs. in June. She joined the Mary Washington Medical chief of the Unix System Section at the Group Infectious Diseases practice Library of Congress. She is now in charge in Fredericksburg, and she practices of the Unix Enterprise Systems across the at Mary Washington and Stafford four data centers managing LOC content. hospitals. A 2007 graduate of Virginia
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Commonwealth University School of Medicine, she completed residencies in internal medicine and pediatrics there in 2011. She did an infectious disease fellowship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2013 and earned a master’s degree in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2014. Board certified in infectious diseases, internal medicine, and pediatrics, she is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Pediatrics.
Lt. Cmdr. Lauren Cameron Fiske ’03 joined the Mary Washington Medical Group Infectious Diseases practice in Fredericksburg.
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Garett Seeba, president of the Ninth District Dental Society of the Texas Dental Association, is on a partnership track at Oral Surgery Associates in Webster, Texas. Wife Tashia practices dental hygiene in the Houston area and is active in DREAM Dachshund Rescue. Bonnie Ryan Lefkowitz organized an awesome mini-reunion for a few friends in Fredericksburg in November. We laughed, we cried, we drank lots of Natural Light. In attendance were Emily Ruesch, Ryan P. Quinn, Diana Daly Epstein, Jill Davis Parker, Jeff Howard, Rebecca Comninaki Duarte, Nick Mancini, Tommy Rogers, Rebecca Griffith, Sarah Sedaghatfar Little, Brad Johnson, Christine Brown Johnson ’05, John Paxton, Katie Helldoerfer Lunne, Caroline Otto Lamire, Matt Aruch, Rob Graceffo, and Jess Brandes.
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Sameer Vaswani sameervaswani@msn.com Andrew Blate, CPA, is co-president of Beautiful Home Services LLC. BHS proudly sponsored the UMW College of Business’ second annual Case Competition, in which participants worked to come up with the best solution to a business-related case study. The company awarded $6,000 in prize money to the winners. Andrew’s charitable foundation, the Blate-Schneibolk Charitable Foundation Inc., raised more than $25,000 in its 11th annual charity event. Andrew was recognized by the COB in 2017 with a Young Alumni Award. He and wife Jessie Thomas-Blate ’03 recently moved to Alexandria, Virginia, with their son, Leo.