University of Mary Washington - Index

University of Mary Washington - summer08 - Index

Karen Graver lives in Burke, Va.,
and is pursuing a doctoral degree in
physics at George Mason University. In
August, she became engaged to Nathan
Baillie ’02, whom she met in the physics
department at Mary Washington.
They planned to marry last month in
Virginia.
Mandi Stover Hyson recently
moved to the Grand Rapids, Mich., area
with her husband, Rob, and their three
children, Daniel, Emma, and Will. They
moved to help Mandi’s sister with her
own son after he was diagnosed with
bilateral retinoblastoma. Mandi has
started work on a master of social work
degree at Western Michigan University,
and she works in family preservation
services for Catholic Charities West
Michigan. Rob is pursuing a bachelor’s
degree in architectural drafting.
Katherine Hunt Sanford married
Gregory Sanford in December, and
they planned to move to San Diego in
August.
Teresa Joerger Mannix and her
husband, Mark, recently traveled
to Spain, France, and Italy on a
Mediterranean cruise to celebrate their
fifth wedding anniversary.
Zac Sargent moved back to
Boston after living for a year and half
in San Francisco, where he worked as a
photographer. He is a project manager
for the construction consultant firm
A/E/C Solutions Inc.
Sara Harney Correll lives in
Gainesville, Va., with her husband, Jim.
They were expecting their first child
recently.
Michelle Leary is now an at-home
mom for Aidan, 3, and Noah, 10 months.
John Montez was the summer
2006 Virginia representative to the
Presidential Academy for American
History and Civics as well as the
summer 2007 Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History fellow. He also
was the fellow at the Ashbrook Center
for Public Affairs at Ashland University
and completed a master’s degree in
education at Old Dominion University
in December.
Gina Clough planned to marry
her fiancé, Mike Leonard, last month
and to have Jessica Mellington, Sara
Harney Corell, and Anna Stensvaag
as bridesmaids. Gina is a fifth-grade
special education teacher in Alexandria,
with Seth Kennard as her new assistant
principal.
Theresa Furlong lives in
Richmond, where she is a project
manager for Capital One.
Kim Jebson serves as the executive
director of Windmore Foundation for
the Arts, a non-profit arts organization
in Culpeper, Va., that serves the
Piedmont.
Matt Selwyn and Ariel Hatfield
Selwyn celebrated their sixth
anniversary in January. They have three
children and were expecting again in
May. Ariel stays home with the kids
and has begun home schooling, while
Matt continues to work as a civilian at
the Naval Surface Warfare Center at
Dahlgren.
Gina Han lives in downtown
Fredericksburg and is in her fourth year
of teaching high school biology and
anatomy in Stafford County. She also
keeps busy with treatments to fight off
breast cancer but is as happy and strong
as ever.
Lauren Oviatt Brennan welcomed
her son, Aiden, on Nov. 3. She and her
husband continue to work at Brown
University.
Jessica Bergner completed a
master’s degree in education with an
emphasis in educational supervision
and leadership at U.Va. last summer.
She planned to travel to Africa with her
mother this summer to complete her
quest to travel to all seven continents. She
teaches sixth-grade math in Oakton, Va.
Kimberly Starr Price Rowan
earned a doctorate in counseling
psychology from Virginia
Commonwealth University in
December and works for Georgia
Southern University’s counseling center.
Lori Clemons Bridges is a
physician’s assistant at an urgent care
center in Raleigh, N.C., where she lives.
Her son is 3, and she was expecting
another.
Michelle Carr, who is engaged to
be married on Aug. 2, is starting a small
education-related business and teaches
in Prince William County, Va.
Erin Caldwell and her husband
live in Richmond and welcomed their
first child, Lillian Virginia Caldwell, in
October. Erin works for an international
nonprofit that provides healthcare to
children in Honduras.
Laura Indzeris Johnson is a
program director for an IT marketing
firm. She and husband Tom Johnson
’97 live in Athens, Georgia.
Mary “Amanda” Hedleston
Dierling, husband Jay, and sons, 2-yearold
Michael and 1-year-old Daniel,
were overjoyed to welcome the newest
member of the family, Ian Walker, on
Sept. 27. Laura Quinn ’00 and Kevin
Libby ’02 travelled to Pennsylvania to
be Ian’s godparents. Amanda, a happy
at-home mom, is active in theater,
and directed and acted for the local
community theater group last summer.
Madelyn Marino is taking on a
new role at American Express as part
of an HR rotation program. In April,
she planned to move to London for
eight months then spend another eight
months in a different location.
Jeff Farthing
married the Hokie
bird in January 2007
– wife Amy was the
Hokie bird while she
was at Virginia Tech.
They live in Chester,
Va., with their two
dogs. In December
2007, Jeff received a master of education
degree in school counseling from
Virginia Commonwealth University.
Mike Parker married Kelly
McCain on Sept. 22 in Greensboro, N.C.
Mary Washington alums Matt Hooker,
Erik Dorman, Eric Lau (who was at
Mary Washington in 1998 and 1999),
and Mike Santay were in the wedding.
Mike and Kelly live in Burlington, N.C.,
where Mike is the general manager
for Precision Golf School and Tennis
Academy; Kelly is the assistant women’s
tennis coach at Duke University.
2002
Travis Jones
tljones8@hotmail.com
Carolyn Murray Spencer
3253 Arrowhead Circle, Apt. H
Fairfax, VA 22030
turtlecjm@yahoo.com
2003
Jennifer Nisoff
nisoffj@hotmail.com
2004
Katharine E. Leesman
730 Fifth St., N.E.
Basement Unit
Washington, DC 20002
katie.leesman@gmail.com
Sarah B. Smith
5804 Merton Court, #182
Alexandria, VA 22311
sarahbsmith@gmail.com
Sameer Vaswani
2251 Pimmit Drive, #208
Falls Church, VA 22043
sameervaswani@msn.com
2005
Allyson V. Lee
82 High St.
Butler, NJ 07405
allyvlee@gmail.com
Ashley Davitt and Derek Simpkins
were married on Oct. 6, 2007, in
Chesterfield, Va. Melissa Naeger
Dolenc ’04, Heather Pritchett ’04,
and Melissa Grimsley Stoner were
bridesmaids. Also in attendance were
Timothy Stoner and Grant Garber.
Ashley and Derek honeymooned in
Las Vegas and Honolulu, and they live
in Falls Church, Va., where they spend
Pash, the band of Meredith
Munoz ’05, released its second
album, The Best Gun, in August.
Band members include Jon Bibb
’06 and Erik Bruner-Yang ’07.
weekends cheering on the Philadelphia
Eagles. Ashley works at a social science
research firm and is pursuing a master’s
degree in applied developmental
psychology. Derek works for an
investment services firm and is working
toward his CFA certificate.
Meredith Munoz’s band, Pash,
released its second album, The Best Gun,
in August and was featured in the “AP
Recommends” section of the January
2008 issue of Alternative Press magazine.
Band members include Jon Bibb ’06
and Erik Bruner-Yang ’07.
Kat Amirpashaie attends the
University of Richmond School of Law.
Meara Henley planned to receive
a master’s degree in nursing from
Marquette University this year and to
become a pediatric nurse practitioner.
In June, she planned to marry Ryan
Peterson of Lakeland, Minn., at the
Gesu Cathedral on the Marquette
campus in Milwaukee. Sarah Cannon
and Shawn Brown planned to attend
the wedding.
Cara Stout loves her second
year at the College of Charleston in
South Carolina, where she works
as an admissions counselor. She is
also pursuing her master’s degree in
communication. She enjoys the beach,
making memories with her friends, and
continuing her year-long relationship
with Nathaniel Pelletier, a nuclear power
instructor in the Navy.
Mario Alfaro is a Realtor and
mortgage loan officer; he also is
involved in directing films and has a few
projects coming soon. He recently acted
in an independent film and loved it, and
he would like to move to Los Angeles in
the near future.
Laura Rawlett returned from the
Peace Corps in Ghana; then, in March,
she began a one-year stint teaching
English to elementary school students in
Seoul, Korea.
2006
Shana Muhammad
11739 Ledura Court, #208
Reston, VA 20191
email.shana@gmail.com
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After six fantastic years in
Fredericksburg, I moved back
to Reston, Va., and accepted an
account representative position at
COR Concepts, a marketing firm
in McLean, and I hope to move
into upper management before the
next issue of TODAY magazine is
published! I will be back to visit my
Fredericksburg family often but would
love to reconnect with classmates in
the Northern Virginia area.
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