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44 HOOD MAGAZINE | WINTER 2008-09 1992 Participation: 5.28% Total Class Dollars: $1,123 This class needs a new reporter! If you are interested in being the reporter for the Class of 1992, please contact Tammy McElroy ’05, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, via mail at Hood College, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick, MD 21701-8575; phone at (301) 6963977; or e-mail at hoodmagcnews@hood.edu. Our condolences to Diane Wilbur Younkins whose grandmother Margaret died Aug. 13, 2008, in Rockville, Md. 1995 Participation: 5.07% Total Class Dollars: $875 Jacki Resop Amato 100 Manor Ave. Baltimore, MD 21206 jresop@yahoo.com I have some wonderful news to report on my home front. I had a baby girl Julianna Lynn June 6, 2008. She was 9 lbs., 6.2 oz. and 22½ in. long. My husband Dion and I could not be happier. In August 2007 I was appointed as the executive associate to the director of assessments and taxation for the state of Maryland. And I continue to serve my second and ﬁnal term as secretary/treasurer of the Alumnae and Alumni of Hood College. Aimee Bader and John Orem had a baby boy Maxililian Dylan June 28, 2008. Lerry Fogle became annual conference executive director for the Church of the Brethren, with denominational responsibilities for planning and resourcing the annual meeting of the church. In April 2004 Lerry graduated from California Baptist Univ. with an M.B.A. in church business administration. He presently lives in Frederick with his wife Linda. Their two daughters are both kindergarten teachers in the Frederick school system. One daughter Laura Rottmund M.S. ’04 received her master’s degree in education from Hood and their other daughter Kelley Montgomery is presently studying for her master’s in education at Hood. Kudos to them! Lerry and Linda have ﬁve grandchildren. Thanks for the update Lerry! Amy Ziegenfuss is living in the UK with her partner Joanna, who is Swiss. Amy oversees marketing for Choice Hotels. She reports that Lalena Wallace, her Shriner roommate, is expecting her second child on New Year’s Eve. Lanie’s son Liam is almost 3. Thanks Amy! Peggy Kamrad Wight is still running and operating Uncle Ralph’s Cookies and states retirement is not in her near future. She has two daughters and three granddaughters. Great to hear from you Peggy! Our condolences to the family of J. Richard Troglin who died Aug. 17, 2008. I appreciate hearing from all of you. Please feel free to drop me a note or e-mail any time of the year! 1993 Participation: 2.65% Total Class Dollars: $675 Marcelle Doll 109 Grand St., Apt. 203 Hoboken, NJ 07030-8542 (201) 459-9403 marcie.doll@pearsonachievement.com Nicole Fitzgerald lives in Atlanta and is working as a contractor for AT&T in the cash accounting department. Her current address is 3703 Sandalwood Drive, Atlanta, GA 30350, and her phone number is (770) 641-3061. She would love to hear from other alums living in the area. Our condolences to Leslie Shafer Gordon whose mother Wilda died July 11, 2008. 1994 15th Reunion June 5-7, 2009 Participation: 3.87% Total Class Dollars: $445 Yibeli Galindo-Baird 3153 Mimi Court Marina, CA 93933 (831) 883-8382 Nina Visconti-Phillips M.A. ’94 is the incoming president of the New Jersey Science Teachers Association for the 2008-09 school term. She has served as president-elect, ﬁrst vice president, newsletter editor and industry liaison. Jessica Olin now lives in Warren, Ohio, and has a new job as an information literacy/ instruction librarian at Hiram College. Holly Cashman writes: “In May 2008, I was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of Spanish at Arizona State Univ. After seven years in the desert, however, I decided I needed a change of scenery and accepted a job teaching Spanish and linguistics in the department of languages, literatures and cultures at the Univ. of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.” 1996 Participation: 4.98% Total Class Dollars: $2,140 Jewel Smith 906 S. Washington St., No. 313 Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 838-7668 jewels@amgen.com jewelsmith@prodigy.net I welcome any news and look forward to hearing from my fellow ’96ers. We’ve even been able to connect a few old friends via this column over the last year. My job is done! In any case I will continue to follow up with you in 2009. Please feel free to e-mail me anytime. Minny Byrd Frank is looking to reconnect with her fellow Hoodlums. Her e-mail is minfrank@aol.com and her MySpace page is www.myspace.com/cabominny for any MySpacers out there. For those on Facebook, search “Minny Frank.” She is excited that she caught up with Angela Franco who is married with two children and coming back to the U.S. from Italy soon. She is the proud mom of four children—Noah 2½, Ava, 17 months, Andrue, 13, and Skylar, 9. Minny is on sabbatical at the beach in Virginia writing a memoir but plans on moving back to Frederick in the summer. Margaret “Meg” Lee has a new job! She is now assistant principal at Thurmont Middle School. She went to work for Frederick County Public Schools after graduation and has enjoyed several positions and many wonderful opportunities with FCPS in the years since! Rachael Miskill M.S. ’06 is still teaching science and loving it! Watching young people learn and grow is a great joy. In 2006 she ﬁnished her biomedical science degree and graduated (again!) from Hood College with the very last of the “nuns.” Karen Snyder Sechler ’97 attended, and Melinda Obitts ’97, M.S. ’06 received her master’s that day as well. Rachael stayed with Karen that weekend and it sounds like it was an amazing weekend. Kelly Huegel recently accepted a new job as associate director of internal communications for KPMG’s mid-Atlantic area. Dorothy Ayres Van Steinburg has achieved the Certiﬁed Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) designation granted through the American Society of Training & Development, indicating that she has met competency and skill requirements (in nine speciﬁc competency areas) for Workplace Learning Professionals. In addition she has earned the internationally recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certiﬁcation through the worldwide Project Management Institute (PMI). Kalie Gillespie Riordan C ’00, Peter, Gillian, 8, and Luke, 4 have moved! Their new address is 38 Phillips Lane, Darien, CT 06820. Liana Robinson Martino just ﬁnished directing “Pride and Prejudice” at Shaker High School, is performing in “Godspell” opening in January 2009 in Colonie, N.Y., and is directing “A Thousand Clowns” for Confetti Stage which opens in February 2009 in Troy, N.Y. Two additions to the family in May 2008—she adopted Calliope, an 8-year-old Calico, and Satchel, a tiger striped Abyssinian. As for me (Jewel Smith), October was fun—went to see the New Kids on the Block (yes, I did!) with Emma Frederick King ’95 and Jacki Resop Amato ’95. It was way better than Hammerjacks. And I ﬁnished my M.B.A. program at Marymount Univ. in Arlington, Va., in December and decided that I’d just stay and get a project management certiﬁcate while I’m at it. Because once I stop, I am not going back! Thanks for the updates. Keep them coming! And that’s the news for now.

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