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Class of 1943
Class of 1948
Class of 1949
Class of 1952
Class of 1956
Class of 1958
Class of 1960
Class of 1963
Ed Maddox, C'63, is retiring in June after 33 years as a teacher and administrator at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT. Ed and his wife, Susan, will divide their time between their homes on Cape Cod and Atlanta.
Class of 1964
Class of 1965
Class of 1967
Class of 1971
Jim (C’71) and Donna Harmon have purchased the Monteagle Inn in Monteagle, TN. They are excited about being back in the Sewanee area and look forward to visiting with returning alumni, friends and extended family.
Class of 1972
Class of 1973
John Spainhour, C'73 and his wife Elise Givhan Spainhour, C'74 have been recognized as Volunteers of the Year by the Legal Aid Society of Louisville. They have practiced law together for the last 26 years. John has recently argued and won a case in the United States Supreme Court. Their son, Christian, graduated from the University in May, 2002.
Class of 1974
Class of 1975
Class of 1976
Class of 1977
Class of 1978
Class of 1979
Class of 1980
Marshall Scott, T'80, has been elected President of the Assembly of Episcopal Healthcare Chaplains at their recent annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. AEHC is a professional organization for chaplains in health institutions in the Episcopal Church. He is Chaplain at St. Luke's South Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas.
Class of 1981
Laurel J Harkness, C'81, died peacefully at home on April 7, 2003, after a courageous 4 year battle with breast cancer.
Class of 1982
Class of 1983
Class of 1984
Marshall (C'84) and Margaret had another girl (Caroline Marshall) on April
7th to go with her older sister (Rebecca McDuffie). Marshall received
tenure and has been chosen as next Director of the Academic Honors Program
at Morehead State University. Wife Margaret is a pilot for UPS and has
been upgraded to flying the Boeing 767.
This summer, Dr. Angela Scheuerle, C'84, will join the Craniofacial
Center at Medical City Hospital in Dallas, Texas. This is the largest
center for treatment of head and neck malformations in the country. She
will be replacing the current Clinical Geneticist, who is retiring this
Fall. Hopefully, she will be able to continue her other work which
includes tracking birth defects in Texas and helping pharmaceutical
companies monitor teratogenicity of HIV/AIDS drugs. She has also
started her second book, a work for the layman about clinical genetics,
genetic diseases and treatments to be published by Greenwood Publishers
in 2004.
Class of 1985
Dr. Todd Votteler will marry Sharmon Sullivan of New Orleans this June. They met on a blind date in
Dallas for New Years 2002. Sharmon is a mechanical engineer and MBA who
works for an energy utility. Several Sewanee grads will be in the
wedding or attending, including Tom Jones, Trey Coale, David Hay, Allen
Culp and Ward Wilson. If you want to find out more about the wedding go
to www.theknot.com and enter Votteler in the search engine on the upper
right side of the page. After the wedding, Todd will be splitting his time
between New Orleans and Austin where he currently lives and works in water
resource management.
Class of 1986
Jane Scarborough Turnbull, C'86, and her husband Kris welcomed two new additions to their family. Twin girls, Laura Meador and Christine Ray, were born on February 17, 2003. They were welcomed home by older brother Matthew (2).
Kimra Anderson Graves, C'86, her husband Steve, and son Briley were blessed with the birth of a bouncing baby boy.
Class of 1987
Natalie Ann LEonard Valchar, C'87, and Mike Valchar proudly announce the birth of their son, Joseph Thomas, on February 21, 2003. Joseph was also welcomed by big sisters Mary Katharine (Katie, age 6 1/2) and Grace (age 3). The Valchar's live in wake Forest, North Carolina.
The photography of Stephen Alvarez is featured in the April 2003
edition of National Geographic. Stephen visited the Arabian Peninsula
with a team of scientists and cavers to document the karst features of
Oman. There he photographed Majlis al Jinn, The Meeting Place of the
Spirits, which is the second largest cave chamber in the world.
The story is also online at www.nationalgeographic.com.
His cave photography was also featured in the March 3, 2003 edition of
Sports Illustrated, in a story on Tennessee's Rumbling Falls Cave.
Stephen is a 1983 graduate of St. Andrew¹s-Sewanee School, and received
a B.A. in Religion from the University of the South in 1987. Stephen
lives in Monteagle with his wife and two children. He has just returned
from an assignment in Uganda and Sudan, covering a School of Theology
mission trip and the continuing refugee crisis there.
Check out Stephen's website at www.alvarezphotography.com.
Class of 1988
Ritchie Prince, C'88 was married on the ides of March in 1997 and now has two children, John Ritchie Macpherson Prince, Jr., born on 7.23.99 and Sydney Clare Prince, born on 8.9.02. Ritchie is practicing law in Mobile, Alabama, but is living in Battles Wharf.
Paul Harris Boardman, C88 and Lawton Brewster Boardman, C88
happily announce the birth of their second child,
Paul, Jr., on February 11. Their daughter, Annabel,
was born January 3, 2000. Paul is currently writing
screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films and director
Martin Scorsese, and is developing another project
that he will write and produce. They enjoy living in
the Los Feliz hills area of Los Angeles, and hope to
see Sewanee friends who come their way.
Class of 1989
Paul Myers, C'89, and his wife, Jere, welcomed their third child into the world on January 16, 2003. George Brewer Myers was born in a driving snowstorm. Paul and Jere live in Nashville with their children, Joy Morgan, Brown, and Brewer. Paul is Chief Financial Officer for Advocate Capital, Inc. and Jere stays at home with the kids.
Paul and Jere Myers with Joy Morgan, Brown, and Brewer.
Class of 1990
After several years as a stay-at-home mom and private English tutor, B. Kimberly Fischer Ramsey, C'90, has accepted an exciting position teaching 7th and 8th grade English and Social Studies at Holy Cross Episcopal School in Montgomery, Alabama. She and her husband Radney have three children: Annie, age 4; Hawthorne, age 3; and John Bushman, age 3. Kimberly will started teaching in August.
Class of 1991
Dr. Jennifer Maddox, C'91, is completing her third year of residency in emergency medicine at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. She, her husband Tom Wilson, C'90, and two children live in Avondale Estates, GA.
Class of 1992
Kellie Jaffrey Purdy, C'92, married Rob Roy MacGregor (Mac) Purdy on March 18, 2000 in Nashville where they now live. Kellie was teaching 7th grade science and coaching basketball until their daughter, Scarritt Anne Purday was born (June 22, 2002). Now Kellie is home with Scarritt. Mac works in emergency management for the state at TEMA.
Scarritt Ann Purdy
Helen Davis Britton, C'92, and her husband John, had their second son, Heyward Addison Britton. He joins big brother Jack (22 months old)
Class of 1993
Mason Bonnycastle Hardy '92 was married on May 10, 2003 to Amy Michelle Thaxton at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, SC. Matthew Douglas McConnell '92 and Robert Rutledge Davies '93 were groomsmen. Mason and Michelle now live in Newberry, SC were he is the Executive Director of the Newberry County Hospital Foundation.
Jason Howell, C'93 and his wife, Renee, had a baby girl, Mary
Browder Howell, born April 23 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mary Browder Howell
Class of 1994
Heather Bennett, C'94 spent Spring Break canoeing through the Okeefenokee Swamp with a colleague and several of their undergraduate students on a class field trip. They spent three days in the swamp, canoed 30 miles and camped out on a floating platform one of the nights. Final alligator count: 147. Heather says that the Island Ecology on St. Catherine's was EXCELLENT training for that experience! She is also leaving in late May for a collecting trip to northeast Australia with a colleague from Minnesota. The first 10 days she'll be on Lizard Island in the Great Barrier Reef and then she'll be traveling around the Cairns area to collect several different kinds of molluscs (primarily snails and clams) for use in our respective research programs.
Heather continues to teach biology and conduct research at USC Aiken. She just finished her third year on the faculty, and enjoy spending her free time with her Shetland Sheepdogs (Casey and Will).
Ambre Elizabeth Paschal married Lonnie Edward Maze, C'94, on March 1 on the beach at Sandals Dunns River Resort in Ochos Rios, Jamaica. They live in Antioch, TN where Ambre is a physician assistant.
Class of 1995
Brian Rushing, C'95 will graduate from the University of Alabama’s MBA program in May and soon after will start work in as Director of Land Acquisitions at the Black Warrior–Cahaba Rivers Land Trust in Birmingham, AL.
Heather Cook climbed Mt. Kilamanjaro this spring with her father. She is living in Atlanta, GA.
Class of 1996
The Rev. Benedict Crawford (Benjamin Crawford), C'96 and his wife, Meg, have three girls, Eleanor (4), Elizabeth (2.5) and Mary Louise (1), and are expecting a son in July. They recently moved to Seattle after Father was assigned to a parish (Orthodox Church in America) there. Benjamin graduated from St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 2002.
Caren Trubey Parker, C'96 and Jefferson Douglas Parker, C'95, celebrate the birth fo their son Griffin Becket Parker. Griffin was born on February 21, 2003. He weighed eight pounds four ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long.
Griffin Becket Parker
Kellam Warren, C'96 and Suzanne Witherington Warren, C'94 moved to Birmingham, Alabama in February 2003. Kellam is an associate with Lehr, Middlebrookos, Price & Proctor, P.C., labor and employment boutique law firm. Suzanne is staying home with their 11-month old son John Kellam Warren, and she is self employed as a decorative painter.
Class of 1997
Class of 1998
Reggie Ramsey C'98 received his MBA from Belmont University in May 2003. He currently resides in Nashville, TN.
Class of 1999
Jon Morris, C'99, temporarily calls California home. Working in theatre & film in Los Angeles he will perform at the Burningman Festival in the electronic dance drama RAMAYANA 2K3, a retelling of the Hindu myth. He is a company member of R37, redefining the 37 plays of Shakespeare through stylized athletic movement. Jon was recently invited back to Sewanee to direct fellow alumni Anson Mount in "FINE" at the Tennessee Williams Center.
Lisa Dixon, C'99, recently moved to Washington, DC, where she is a copy editor for Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.
1st Lt Rory Daniel Kent, C'99, has been selected to the rank of Captain in the United States Marine Corps and is now currently attached to 3rd Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan for a one year tour. He is currently the Assistant Operations Officer for the Provost Marshal's Office and was recently awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for his performance as a Platoon Commander at MCB Camp Pendleton, California.
Class of 2000
Laura Martin has been working as a real estate agent in Atlanta, GA and is getting married to Christopher Jones in November, 2003. They are also building a house and will move into it in May, 2003.
Zach Sutton, C'00, married Margaret Marsh (sister of Wallace Marsh, C'01) in All Saints' Chapel in June, 2002. In May of 2003, Zach will receive his Masters degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In the fall of 2003, he will begin work on his Doctorate in Physical Therapy at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.
Brandon Ashcraft, C'00, lives in New York City and recently joined Makovsky & Company, a glob al public and investor relations firm, as an Account Executive in the firm's Financial & Professional Services practice area.
Amy Atcheson, C'00, will enter the University of Virginia this fall to pursue a Masters in English. Amy has been the Senior Assistant Director of Admission at Sewanee for the last three years.
Class of 2001
Claire Templin, C'01, is getting married May 18, 2003
in Fredericksburg, TX to Daniel P. Makins.
Beth Saer and Drew Jones, both C'01, were married in Little Rock, AK on April 5, 2003. Sewanee friends gathered for the special occasion.
(l to r)Top Row: Ros Stone, Newell Smith, Beth Sherrard, Ann Carter Dice, Haley Burton, Mary Frances Hansford. Bottom: Winsy Dunwoody, Lauren Evans, Beth Saer Jones, Anne Pearson, and Liz Wilmes (all C'01).
Class of 2002
Elizabeth Blewett Harrison, C'02, works for Kansas Wildlife and Parks as a Naturalist. She cares for more than 40 animals at Milford Nature Center. She also takes these animals to local schools to teach children about wildlife. She and her husband, Joseph, are expecting a son in July. Unfortunately Joe, a Leutinant in the Army, will not be there because he is fighting the War on Terror in the Middle East.
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