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Laura Claycomb made her debut with the Santa Fe Opera this summer. She is working on a touring dance-theater piece and has moved from Brussels, Belgium, to Turin, Italy.
Rena Wilson Fox formed UnTapped Talent LLC, a Hershey, PA-based company geared toward publishing writers with little or no experience. She has 24 years of experience in publishing, copywriting and production.
Arthur (Art) George was honored at the 2008 Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference, produced by the Career Communications Group Inc., in recognition of lifetime achievement and exceptional career gains in government and industry.
Lee Mulcahy (Ph.D. ’00) is a guide and teaches fly fishing in the Aspen, CO, area.
Darren Taylor has three sons: Jack, 3, and twins, Ryan and Luke, born in January 2008 in Evanston, IL. He is director of e-commerce at W.W. Grainger.
Charles Valvano (M.B.A. ’91) was appointed a commissioner to the Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority in Toms River, NJ. He is an adjunct professor of economics and investments at Ocean County College (NJ).
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Katherine Bongfeldt married Kaushal Vyas in Mai, Hawaii, March 29, 2007. Their daughter, Maggie Anu, was born Sept. 9, 2007. Katherine is signed with nationally known talent manager Maggie Smith of Los Angeles.
John Clanton is senior vice president and senior portfolio manager with Compass Wealth Management Group in Dallas, working with high-net-worth families and individuals.
Mary Hutchings Cooper was honored at a Winter Ball last March as an Outstanding Volunteer of the New York Junior League for 2008. She has worked with teenagers in Harlem, encouraging careers in the arts and media; helped teenage mothers with family life skills; renovated community playgrounds; and built houses for the homeless in Sri Lanka. Cooper is a product manager at Reuters America.
Katy Etheridge has co-authored with ChiChi Villaloz the book Do Dogs Vote? (Malamute Press, Inc., 2008), a whimsical, educational and rhyming picture book for children ages 4-8 that introduces timely themes and vocabulary about the importance of having a voice and making responsible decisions in the voting process.
Patrick Maher is founder and CEO of Eight Crossings, a Sacramento-based company that provides off-site support services for doctors through Windward Health, lawyers through Windward Legal and authors through Two Tree Press. His company has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.
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Scott Hancock is regional executive vice president of Liberty Bank of Arkansas in Springdale. He plays Santa at civic and charity events and is an active volunteer in northwest Arkansas.
C. Sam Walls III is president of the Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation in Little Rock, where he sees business ideas come to fruition and supports entrepreneurial development projects. He is a graduate of the Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Mark Yee has joined Deutsch creative agency in Los Angeles as senior vice president/account director. Previously he was an account director at Latitude/The Richards Group.
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Andrew Arroyo is vice president of information technology at eCardio Diagnostics, where he directs strategic technology planning for information systems and business applications. He held senior executive-level positions at Mobil Oil, Motorola, Lucent, The Feld Group and Centex.
Jamie McIver lives in Brandon, FL, and has worked in training and communications for six years at the Florida Department of Transportation. She is studying for a Master’s degree in strategic communications and leadership at Seton Hall University (NJ) through the distance-learning program.
Eliza Stewart is Sister Mary Thomas, O.P., a cloistered Dominican nun at the Monastery of the Infant Jesus in Lufkin, TX. She handles the altar bread department and Web site and is head chantress and organist.
Heather Wilson is vice president at the Los Angeles office of Weber Shandwick, where she runs the crisis management group for the global public relations firm.
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Reunion chairs: Molly Noble Kidd and Scott J. Mallonee
Kirsten Castañeda was elected to the 14-member Executive Committee of the American Bar Association’s Council of Appellate Lawyers for 2008-09. She is senior counsel in the Dallas office of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell.
Marla Mason Ross owns Adelante Boutique in San Antonio. She invented a clothing garment, Chickies Cleavage Coverage by Juls & Meg, as a way for women to layer clothing.
Rawson Stovall is a producer at Electronic Arts, a video game publisher in California. He lives in Redwood City.
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Thomas E. (Tom) Jones has been promoted to vice president of sales for Exar Corp., where he held sales management positions for 10 years. He lives in Plano, TX, with his wife, Brenda.
Dana Babb McGowan announces the birth of twins, Ian Derek and Avery Barbara, Feb. 11, 2008. Her other children are Evan, 4, and Abby Grace, 2.
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Stephanie Walsh completed a Master’s degree in counseling psychology in June 2008 and moved to China in September. She has published two children’s books with Aardvark Adventure Stories.
Gregory Dean Watts is board certified in criminal law by the Texas Board of Legalization. He has written a screenplay, “Big Foot Took My Girlfriend,” which was optioned by a production company.
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Eric Holcomb was promoted to region controller for Europe, Africa, Russia and Caspian for Baker Atlas, a division of Baker Hughes. He lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, with his wife, Lea, and two daughters, Anna Catherine and Elizabeth.
J.R. Johnson left a Los Angeles law practice to co-found VirtualTourist.com, a travel Web site with mentions in Newsweek, The New York Times and Travel+Leisure.
Paige Puryear McGehee announces the birth of her third daughter, Corinne Copeland, April 18, 2008.
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Emily Muscarella Guthrie and husband Ben Guthrie ’00 ’01 welcomed their third child, Judith Louise, on March 1, 2009. She joins big brothers Joseph Steven, born in September 2005, and Felix Benjamin, born in April 2007.
Alison Ream Griffin and her husband, Paul, announce the birth of Nicholas Owen Sept. 23, 2007. The Griffins live in Alexandria, VA, where she is a part-time higher education consultant.
Anna Katherine Whitehead received a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary May 17, 2008.</P.
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Reunion chairs: Taylor Martin and Lindsay Feldhaus Perlman
Jay Whittaker starred as Ian in “Shining City” at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Jan. 12-Feb. 17, 2008. He also has television and film credits.
2 replies on “1990-99”
Thanks for keeping us updated on the success of the alumni!
Missy and John (1995) welcomed John Hunt Saalfield (Hunt) June 18, 2009. They have another son, Ray who is 6. They also just moved back to Dallas from Chicago after 11 years in Lake Forest.