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Nicole Brende is founder/publisher of Houston’s first online social magazine, RSVP713.com, and host and senior account manager of the television show Hot on Homes.

Rob Fowler is a U.S. Air Force pilot flying F-15Cs at Eglin Air Force Base in Destin, FL.

Tammy Nguyen Lee is producer/director of the documentary Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam, which premiered April 3, 2009, at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Santa Ana, CA. The film, recounting the 1975 U.S. airlift of over 2,500 Vietnamese orphans before the fall of Saigon, was honored with the Audience Choice Award.

Laura C. Willmann Mason was elected shareholder of the law firm Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison and Tate Inc. of San Antonio. From 2004 to 2009 she was recognized by Law & Politics and Texas Monthly as a Texas Rising Star. She received the 2009 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award by the San Antonio Young Lawyers Association.

Vanessa Rusk Pierce and Read Pierce ’01 welcomed a son, Bryant William, Jan. 6, 2009, in San Francisco.

Stephen Shannon is the senior manager at Denkmann Southwest LLC, a family-owned business since 1860. He and his wife, Leslee Harp Shannon ’99, live in Argyle, TX, with their children, Anne and Jack.

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Billy Gannon is an associate for the commercial real estate company Cushman & Wakefield. He serves on the executive board for the Real Estate Council’s Young Guns, a committee for brokers ages 22 to 30. Recently he was named Emerging Broker of the Year.

Lakeisha Hall received a Master’s degree in library and information science May 2, 2009, from the University of South Florida. She is the instructional services and science librarian at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.

Adrianne Jaretha Jessie was promoted to assistant division controller of Republic Services Inc. in Houston, one of the nation’s leading providers of environmental and waste services.

Lindsay R. Lowery joined Brookmont Capital in May 2009 to direct the firm’s corporate development activities.

S. Talmadge Singer II was promoted to senior associate for capital raising, national expansion, securities issues and government relations at Advantage Capital, where he started in 2007.

The Rev. Michael W. Waters (M.Div. ’06) is founder and senior pastor of Joy Tabernacle A.M.E. Church in Dallas, studying for his Doctor of Ministry degree at Perkins School of Theology. He was featured in the April 2009 issue of Ebony magazine as one of the top young leaders in America under age 30. Waters and his wife, Yulise Reaves Waters (’02, J.D. ’08), are parents of Michael Jeremiah, age 2.

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Spencer Browne is a partner in the newly formed Dallas-based law firm Reyes Bartolomei Browne, focusing on pharmaceutical, contract, insurance, trucking and general personal injury litigation. He served as law clerk for the National Football League.

Dodee Frost Crockett was named for the fourth consecutive year to Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisers.

Annie Flanagin joined Baron + Dowdle Construction in 2009 as project manager, drawing on three years of experience as assistant project manager for SG Contracting in Atlanta. She is a LEED Accredited Professional of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Jake Jordan co-founded Accent Commercial Real Estate, a brokerage and investment firm dealing in retail site selection, development, land acquisition and disposition, retail leasing and investment property sales.

Lydia Mackay starred in last summer’s Dallas Shakespeare Festival production The Taming of the Shrew, and Aaron Roberts performed in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Stephanie Torres has joined the special projects and fundraising events team in program services at SMU. She was previously content manager for TRAVELHOST Inc.

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Oscar C. Carr IV practices civil litigation and construction, employment, health care and personal injury law at Blankler Brown PLLC. Last April he was named to the alumni board of directors of Presbyterian Day School, the largest elementary school for boys in the United States.

Todd Haberkorn is the lead voice in several animated shows released worldwide this fall, including voices for Sgt. Frog, Soul Eater and D. Gray Man. He is producing the film State of Loss with his Blue Logic Productions group.

Rogers Healy is broker-owner of Rogers Healy and Associates in Dallas, catering to recent college graduates seeking their first home rental or purchase. In 2008 he personally closed sales of $15 million. Healy was profiled in Realtor magazine’s top 30 Under 30 in 2009 real estate.

Zac Hirzel and his wife, Hollee, announce the birth of their son, Thomas Lewis, Nov. 14, 2008.

Aubrey Knappenberger is a sales planner for the digital advertising team at Comedy Central.

Jeremy Roebuck was named Star Reporter of the Year by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors in April 2009. Since 2006 he has been covering courts and legal issues at The McAllen Monitor, the largest newspaper in South Texas.

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Paige Corbly and Adam Buffington were married Jan. 3, 2009, in Columbus, Ohio, where they live. Bridesmaids included Lauren Chapman and Brittney Schaeffer. Paige received her J.D. degree in May from the College of William & Mary.

Elaine Ferguson had her second art exhibition and first solo show, Texas Blues, last December in London.

Ellen Kline married William Nelson Mabry in Nacogdoches May 10, 2008. They live in Houston, where she is an associate in the law firm Short, Carter, Morris LLP.

Meghann O’Leary and her sister, Erin O’Leary ’04, turned a passion for baking and adapting cookie recipes into an online business, O’Cookies Wholesome Bites. Meghann lives in Dallas and is in the business full time, while Erin works from New York, where she also pursues a dance career.

Emily Powell and Brian Fox were married at Perkins Chapel Jan. 3, 2009.

Sarah Stutts teaches world cultures to sixth-graders at McCulloch Intermediate School in Highland Park, TX.

Brittany Timmerman works in program services at SMU on the athletic forum and projects team. She is studying for her M.B.A. degree at the University of Dallas.

Kara Torvik-Smith performed in The Merry Wives of Windsor last summer at the Dallas Shakespeare Festival.

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Courtney Birck has joined the Dallas office of Jackson Spalding, an Atlanta-based marketing communications firm, as an account professional.

Rebekah Hurt spoke at the Gartner Honors Lecture at SMU last March, discussing “Responsibilities of the ‘Been-To’ in African Literature and the Experience of an SMU Marshall [Scholar].”

Michael A. Olimpio received a Master of Theological Studies degree May 11, 2009, from Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

<pJeffrey I. (Jeff) Rose and Metin Eren ’07 are featured in the five-part BBC TV series Incredible Human Journey, which airs in the United States on The Travel Channel. Rose is a lecturer in the Human Origins and Palaeo-Environments Research Group at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

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Tamara Carrell married Jason Jones ’08 in Dallas Aug. 1, 2009. They are living in Austin while Jason attends The University of Texas Law School. At the wedding were Cameron Baynard ’08, Bud Beunier ’08, Catherine Garrett, Kent Kirkwood ’08 and Elsa Monge ’06.

Brentney Hamilton received her Master’s degree in religious studies from Harvard University June 4, 2009. While in Massachusetts, she interned in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

Nicole Sarhady Kellogg was recently married.

Brittany Merrill is founder and development director of Ugandan American Partnership Organization, which held a dedication ceremony in Uganda March 7, 2009, for the Ranch on Jesus orphanage, built for up to 180 children with funds Merrill raised. Her story was recently featured on CNN World.

Ashley Parker and John Pope ’06 had a Houston wedding May 9, 2009. They live in Dallas.

Halle Smith has joined the Dallas office of Jackson Spalding, an Atlanta-based marketing communications firm, as an account professional.

Lauren Smith and Jim Gutierrez ’06 married Aug. 1, 2009, in Kansas City, honeymooned in the south of France and live in Hoboken, NJ.

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Meredith Baker is pursuing a J.D. degree at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

C. Taylor Chalmers bought a national junk removal franchise for the Dallas market. College Hunks Hauling Junk employs college students as junk removal specialists.

Esmeralda Duran was selected for a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Continuing Scholar Graduate Award for up to six years of graduate study at up to $50,000 per year.

Lee Helms is working this season as company manager for Theatre for a New Audience, an Off-Broadway theater company.