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2012
Elyse Rolfe completed 200
Anna Grace Deierlein married
Kelsey Baired had a baby boy
RYT through Raleigh-area Yoga Legacy, with advanced training in aquatic and detox yoga. This fall, she will complete further training in hot, senior and prenatal yoga.
Brooke Colver in Weaverville on May 16, 2015.
named Reavis Allen Baired.
Nicholas Thuell married Jennifer Thuell on Sept. 6, 2015
Ashley Wrightenberry married Daniel Kamiya on July 18, 2015.
2009 Alexa Jacobs married Taylor Shanklin ’10, on Feb. 21, 2015. Jacobs is currently in her sixth year of teaching second grade in China Grove.
Lakesha McDay has accepted the position of Mission Health’s first director of diversity, health equity, and inclusion.
Patrick Tate married Whitney Odden on July 3, 2015.
Catherine Williams married Justin Smith in their hometown Rosewell, Ga., on May 16, 2015.
2011 James Chick will begin a new job at Metlife as a senior annuities professional in Charlotte.
Mary Ellen Dendy married Aaron Dahlstrom ’09 on Sept. 12, 2015.
Carrie Harrell married Ben Jones on May 30, 2015, and is now working as an OB/GYN resident at Duke University Hospital.
Carolyn Island graduated from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in May 2015.
James Phillips moved to Austin and became the economist for Battlecry Studios, a video game company.
Kristen Englert-Lenz released a new album, The Extent of Play.
Lauren Gunter is engaged to Cody Mink.
Alyssa Smith is traveling to Germany to teach English.
2014
Meredith Houck is now married and attending graduate school at Princeton University.
Amie Cloer, women’s tennis alumna, married Shane Lewis June 20, 2015.
Tatiana Potts exhibited her collection Topophilia: Printmaking by Tatiana Potts at UNC Asheville in fall 2015.
Eric Frid and his wife, Amber, had a baby in the spring of 2014.
Emily Williamson married Andy Williamson ’10. Karina Zimmerman and her husband Devin Zimmerman ’11 had a baby boy named Aiden Kent Balaoro Zimmerman on Aug. 1, 2015.
2013 Brent Allison graduated from the University of Florida with his MBA in finance and is moving to Orlando to become a senior financial analyst with Darden Restaurants.
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Michael Eli Miller married Rachel Wells on July 25, 2015. Cassidy Robbins married Elizabeth Sheppard on April 13, 2015. Corlee Thomas-Hill participated in the 2015 Remember the Removal bike ride, a nearly 1,000-mile bicycle ride from Georgia to Oklahoma commemorating the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their homeland during the Trail of Tears.
2015 Joseph Anderson accepted a position with Gould Killian CPA.
Juliana Grassia is now the campaign manager for The Committee to Elect Corey Atkins.
If you own low-yielding
Kelly Olshan is attending
assets and are seeking higher income, a charitable
Columbia University for a master’s degree in arts administration.
life income gift such as a
Kaitlin Pindell is an accountant at Kearney & Company, a CPA firm in Alexandria, Va.
charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder trust
Daniel Thomas married Martina Underwood.
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