Hannah ’08, Charles, and Penny Machemehl, Ansley Daws ’08, and friends at Monday Night Brewing, an Atlanta-based craft brewery. Zach Young’s son-in-law Joel Iverson is a co-founder of the brewery.
Brett Briggs ’06 opened a new business, Southern Hospitality Gentlemen’s Clothiers, in Kennesaw, GA. Steven Brown ’06 was transferred with General Electric to Wilmington, NC in January 2013. He is a Radiological Analysis Engineer at their nuclear facility, where he provides nuclear design input and computational analysis for Fuel Manufacturing Operations and performs critical analyses of all nuclear aspects of uranium conversion, powder production, and pellet/bundle manufacturing. In July 2012, Steven was invited to speak at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Puerto Rico, and in November 2012 he spoke in Houston, TX to the International Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Michael Black ‘07 graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2011 with a double major in Political Science and Peace, War and Defense. Michael interned with the Fulton County Republican Party and is currently a staff member in Senator Johnny Isakson’s Washington, D.C. office. Mary Elston Heaner ’07 was recently named the 2012-2013 Teacher of the Year at D.R. Hill Middle School in Lyman, SC (outside of Spartanburg). This is only her second year teaching Spanish there, so it was quite an honor! She has now submitted the paperwork for the District Teacher of the Year award. Mary Elston graduated from Wofford in 2011.
Brendan Patterson ’07 graduated from Georgia Tech with Honors and is now a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Florida. Brendan received a Fellowship Award and is working on his PhD studies in Materials Science Engineering. He has co-authored several papers on advanced properties of polymers and carbon fibers. Brendan has enjoyed cheering for Betsy Smith ’08, who just concluded her collegiate playing career for the Gators’ volleyball team.
Paige Hamlin ’07 and her mom ride an elephant in Asia. Bradley Harrison ’08 graduated from the University of North Carolina and will be attending Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia. Paige Hamlin ’09 graduated in May from the University of Alabama. Immediately following graduation, she left for a tenweek mission trip to Laos in Southeast Asia to teach English to children. Catherine Black ’09 graduated from UGA in May 2013 with a Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy. A four-year member of the UGA Redcoat Marching Band, she will be interning with Fulton County Public Schools this coming year as a music therapist. Anne Elizabeth Goodgame ’09 will graduate in May from Furman University with a B.A. in French and History. She was inducted into the South Carolina Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious liberal arts honor society.
Ali Lloyd ’09 is at Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy and is being inducted into the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society for her service to the profession. She will serve as president of the American Pharmacy Association of Student Pharmacists; Treasurer of the Student Societies of Health-System Pharmacy; and was recently named the 2013-2014 Student Representative for the Alabama Pharmacy Association. Ali leads numerous health screening initiatives for the poor throughout greater Birmingham. Last summer, she traveled to Peru as a heath care missionary.
Jessica Felts ’10 is studying in Milan, Italy until July 2013 through the University of Virginia’s Study Abroad program.
Jessica Felts ’10 in Italy.
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Ali Bagdy ’07 is living in Charlotte, NC where she works for Octagon Sports. Last year she helped coordinate social media for the Miss Sprint Cup Girls. She has since been promoted to the position of Account Executive for Octagon’s Bank of America Division.
Julie and Chris Cleveland, Martha and Andy Cook, Stephanie and Chad McDaniel, Mamie McIntosh ’06, Melissa and Steve Thorson, and Megan Walker ’12 celebrate Rebecca Carpenter ’02 Kennedy’s wedding to Zach Kennedy.
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