Fall 2025 Class Notes

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Class Notes by Year

Class Notes: 1950s-1960s

  • ’56

    Quinq

    Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Betty Rich Hendon, BA, of Germantown, Tenn., has published her third book, Chasing the Wind. Her other books are Paths That Cross (Ambassador International, 2005) and The Bridge (Ambassador-Emerald International,  2003).

  • ’59

    Wilma McCrary “Sunni” Bond, BS, of Greenwood, S.C., has a regular column titled “Idle Musings” published every other Wednesday in the Index Journal of Greenwood. She writes, “If you Google ‘Sunni Bond Idle Musings Index Journal Greenwood S.C.,’ you will have access to these columns. I am fortunate to have my son and his wife living nearby in Ninety-Six, S.C., and my granddaughter and her husband in Charlotte, N.C., where they have blessed me with one great-grandchild and another on the way!”

  • ’60

    Bill A. Johnson Jr., BA, and Carole O’Daniel Johnson, BA’61, of Jonesboro, Ark., will celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary on Aug. 19.

  • ’64

    Charles E. Walker Jr., BA, recently retired after 51 years practicing equine veterinary medicine near Lexington, Ky. He graduated from the Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1971 and served a residency in equine surgery at Colorado State University. He was also the huntsman and master of foxhounds of the Woodford Hounds for 20 years.

  • ’65

    Jerry Reves, BA, of Charleston, S.C., published South Carolina’s Indomitable College of Medicine, in November 2024 by Evening Post Books. The book features a foreword written by Jeff Balser, MD’90, PhD ’90, president and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and dean of Vanderbilt School of Medicine. The Charleston Library Society will feature the author and book on Oct. 14 at a special event.

     

    Ed deZevallos, BA, of Houston, a Marine Corps veteran, was presented with the 2024 Semper Fidelis award for his charitable contributions at the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation awards dinner last November. The MCSF raised more than $1 million for 297 scholarship recipients to use for their higher education. More than 350 people gathered at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston to support MCSF’s mission of providing need-based scholarships to military children. Ed is married to Pamela Hathcock deZevallos, ’67, who served on the Engineering Board of Visitors for many years.

  • ’67

    Thomas C. Butler, MD, of Allen, Texas, published a memoir, Trials and Triumphs of a Plague Doctor, on Amazon in February. It includes his 1970s clinical research with plague patients in Vietnam as well as research with diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh in the 1980s and as professor of microbiology at a medical school in the Caribbean until retirement in 2022.

Class Notes: 1970s

  • ’72

    John P. Williams, JD, of Nashville published Montgomery Bell: Tennessee Frontier Capitalist in December 2024 through Acclaim Press. Montgomery Bell was Tennessee’s most successful ironmaster in the first half of the 19th century. This biography traces his life from his Pennsylvania roots during the American Revolution to his 12 years as a Kentucky hatter to his 50-year career in the iron business in Tennessee. Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, founded in 1867 with a bequest from Bell, has sent many students (including the author) to Vanderbilt over the years.

  • ’74

    Richard Bodorff, JD, senior counsel at law firm Wiley Rein in Washington, D.C., received the Chairman’s Award in April from the Broadcasters Foundation of America for his contributions to the foundation and the broadcasting industry. He received the award in Las Vegas at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters.

  • ’75

    50th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Stephen E. Grimm, III, BA, and Helen Anna Lawrence were married April 22, 2024. They live at Babcock Ranch, Punta Gorda, Fla.

    Brenda Donaloio Lee, BS, of Galveston, Texas, writes that she has sold the brick and mortar G. Lee Gallery. “Embarking on my ‘preferment,’” she says she is updating her 1896 historic landmarked home, “a never ending source of amusement and expenditures!” She is also “continuing my online art gallery of wonderful Texas coastal art at Artwork Archive G. Lee Gallery and touring with musician and artist Ned Evett on the SatchVai Band Surfing with the Hydra 2025 tour throughout Europe.”

     

  • ’76

    Adair Wakefield Margo, BA, of El Paso, Texas, conceived of the Tom Lea Trail in 2009, which passed the Texas Legislature in 2017 and was launched as a mobile website with the Texas Historical Commission in 2023. Margo, who majored in art history and studied in Florence, Italy, her junior year at Vanderbilt, based the Tom Lea Trail on Italy’s Piero della Francesca Trail, which she traveled during studies abroad. The idea to honor her hometown artist was sparked when an Italian art historian teaching in Poitiers, France, contacted Margo after recognizing Pieroesque qualities in Tom Lea’s murals while perusing a book on New Deal art. The Tom Lea Trail connects 12 Texas communities and 24 sites through Lea’s art and writing. Margo recorded Lea’s oral history in 1995 and presented the Tom Lea Trail to NATO Ambassadors in Brussels at the invitation of Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2019.

  • ’77

    Byron Edwards, PhD, published a novel, Living in the Light, in 2022 (Lighthouse Publishing), available in multiple formats on Amazon.

  • ’78

    Tom Kolditz, BA, of Highland, Ill., is a retired brigadier general and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Army’s highest award for service. He has been honored with the prestigious Warren Bennis Award for Excellence in Leadership—an honor also bestowed on Doris Kearns Goodwin, Howard Schultz and Benazir Bhutto. From 2018 to 2024, he was globally ranked in various leadership coaching categories by Global Gurus, an independent research and professional ranking organization in the UK. Tom developed the concept of in extremis leadership—an original crisis leadership model—and is using it in 2025 to help multiple companies in Ukraine understand how to lead in times of fear and uncertainty.

  • ’79

    Venkat Venkatasubramanian, MS, a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University in New York was elected in February to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Class of 2025. In 2024, he received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ oldest and most prestigious award, the William H. Walker Award. He is an internationally recognized authority in developing artificial intelligence–based methods for process fault diagnosis, process safety, pharmaceutical engineering and materials design.

Class Notes: 1980s

  • ’80

    45th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Mary Anne Hunting, BA, of New York City recently published Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2025), coauthored with Kevin D. Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and professor and chair in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Vanderbilt.

    Stephen Pate, BA, JD ’83, a partner in law firm Cozen and O’Connor in Houston, was installed as president of the American College of Coverage Counsel at the college’s annual conference in Chicago on May 9. The college is an invitation-only organization consisting of the top one half of one percent of the country’s coverage attorneys. Pate is also a member of the American Law Institute and an advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates.

    Scott Sundby, BA, a law professor at the University of Miami, published his first novel, Wordsworth in Bogotá (Black Rose Writing) in January, the story of the reluctant son of a drug lord who uses a poetry conference to smuggle drugs and save his family’s failing empire. Drawing on his time as an English major at Vanderbilt, a stint as a prosecutor and a career as a professor, the book intertwines academic satire with an international crime mystery, or, as one review characterized it, “the Godfather with a sense of humor.”

  • ’81

    Michael F. Weisberg, BA, of Dallas published A Second Shot: The Pursuit of Justice in Maryland's Oldest Cold Case in April through Intelligentsia Books. His first two publications were the novels The Hospitalist (Lulu Publishing, 2016) and In the End (Gatekeeper Press, 2020).

  • ’83

    Karly Lopez Mavity, BSN, is recognition coordinator at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

  • ’84

    Robert J. Campbell, MEd, recently retired to France after 42 years of teaching and social work.

  • ’85

    40th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Gardner Landry, BA, of Houston published Songs of My Father and Other Essays in January through Atmosphere Press. This is his second book following his novel, Merlin of the Magnolias (Greenleaf Book Group, 2021). Although the essays in the collection are comic in tone, most deal with the very serious challenge of having a parent with malignant narcissism.

  • ’86

    Leslie Jeter, BSN, is a senior clinical instructor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta.

    Charles Thomas, BA, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., self-published a collection of poetry in November 2024 titled Love Too Much, available at bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers.

    Karin Walwork Tramm, MEd, of Parrish, Fla., recently was named director of education for the Museum of the American Military Family. In addition, she has contributed to three of their anthologies, Schooling with Uncle Sam, Host Nation Hospitality and Home: It’s Complicated.

  • ’87

    Cathy Headrick Fiacco, BSN, was featured on Chattanoogan.com in November 2024, for organizing a lung cancer awareness day at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, Tenn. She is a registered nurse in Atlanta.

    Becky Sharpe, BA, MBA’91, of Nashville recently published her second book, Just Live. She, and her husband, Michael, have been enjoying a lot of travel, including a cold, lovely trip to Milwaukee where they posed with “The Bronze Fonz.”

    The Sharpes with "the Bronze Fonz"
  • ’88

    Mike Bell, MEd, of Elkins, W.Va., resigned as executive director of the Davis Health System Foundation in December to focus full time on his philanthropy consulting practice Mike Bell & Associates. Its clients include WV Caring and Davis & Elkins College. He is also a board member and government relations and advocacy chair for the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners.

    Charles H. Ford, MA, PhD’92, of Norfolk, Va., published along with his research partner, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn of Sam Houston State University, “The Seamstress and the Counselor: Evelyn T. Butts, Joseph Jordan, Jr., and Butts v. Harrison (1966),” in Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation, (University of Florida Press, 2025). They also edited the book Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion (University of Virginia Press, 2025) to which they contributed two articles, “From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: Discrimination and LGBTQ Activism in Virginia” and “Queer Liberation and the Obscenity Debate in Hampton Roads.”

    Mary McLaughlin Gibbs, BSN, MSN’90, DNP’24, of Huntington, W.Va., recently was promoted to assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, where she has been employed as a nurse practitioner since 1999. An article summarizing her doctoral project has been accepted for publication in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

  • ’89

    James W. Shepherd, BA, of Washington, D.C., recently was inducted into the College of Fellows for the Association for Preservation Technology at their Montreal conference. He was also promoted to vice president at the national design firm SmithGroup, where he serves as director of historic preservation for their 19 offices. Previously he was the director of preservation and facilities for Washington National Cathedral.

Class Notes: 1990s

  • ’90

    35th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

     

  • ’91

    James McCaffrey, MBA, moved his capital-raising and mergers and acquisitions advisory firm to New York City in 2023. JMCCO raises investor capital for alternative investment managers and directs projects in blockchain/defi. The firm works the buy and sell sides of lower middle market transactions in business services, manufacturing and revenue cycle management. He and his wife, Sally, live in the city with their rescue dog, Knuckles.

    McKinley Wooten, JD, of Raleigh, N.C., was appointed by Gov. Josh Stein in January and confirmed by the North Carolina Senate in April as secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue.

  • ’92

    Susan Henderson, MEd, of Kings Park, N.Y., had her novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams (HarperCollins, 2018), included on This House of Books’ list of the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

    Andrew Maraniss, BA, of Brentwood, Tenn., in June published the fourth book in his “Beyond the Game: Athletes Change the World” series of illustrated biographies for children through Viking Books for Young Readers. The latest book is on Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone, a Native American runner who raises awareness of the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

  • ’93

    Cristen Coker Hemmins, BS, became a philanthropy adviser at Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi last summer after four and a half years as the director of giving at the statewide nonprofit news organization, the Mississippi Free Press. She enjoys spending more time in Memphis and Nashville, while still living in Oxford, Miss. She is still the chair of the Lafayette County Democratic Party and active on the Mississippi Democratic Party's executive committee.

    Jim Hughey, BA, of Vestavia, Ala., retired after more than a decade of service on the trial bench as an Alabama Circuit Judge to join Birmingham mediation service  SchreiberADR, where he focuses on mediation, arbitration and private judging.

    Maryglenn McCombs Warnock, BA, of Nashville was appointed in January to the board of Pawster, a Nashville-based nonprofit that provides temporary foster care to pets whose owners are in crisis.

  • ’94

    Tony Lehman, BA, of Atlanta was selected as the chair-elect of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law, the world’s largest organization of construction lawyers. He will become chair-elect Sept. 1, 2025, and become chair of the organization Sept. 1, 2026.

  • ’95

    30th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Lee Abbott Kiblinger, BA, MEd’96, of Dallas, after years as a high school English teacher, announces the publication of her book All the Untils, published by Wipf and Stock in May. The poetry collection explores the mysteries of time, shedding light on the wonder of “untils” in our stories of redemption.

  • ’96

    Bryan L. Clark, BA, joined the Dallas office of law firm Bracewell in January as a partner in the firm’s Oil and Gas and Energy Transition practice groups. Clark is returning to private practice after serving for more than a decade as the primary midstream counsel at Pioneer Natural Resources USA. He also served as lead counsel on energy transition matters, including wind and solar development, for the Fortune 200 company, which is now part of ExxonMobil Corporation.

  • ’98

    Kirby D. Hopkins, BA, is celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary at home and his fifth law firm anniversary at work. He and co-founder Joe Centrich founded Hopkins | Centrich Law in 2020 to resolve business disputes and stand up for business owners in The Woodlands, Texas. He writes, “We now ‘conquer and prevail’ with seven colleagues, and we're interested in hearing from Vanderbilt undergrads and law school students who are interested in legal careers with ties to the Greater Houston Area. As a firm, we support the Alzheimer’s Association through their local Walk to End Alzheimer’s, Mardi Gras Memory Ball, Legal Industry Leadership Council and legislative advocacy. Alums should feel free to reach out to me to connect, network, or play tennis, pickle ball and golf.”

    Robert Palmer, BE, MSN’00, PhD’05, was selected as a Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health Scholar by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in January 2025.

  • ’99

    Mary Katherine White, MSN, is an assistant professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, teaching in its bachelor of science in nursing program and in graduate nursing courses in pediatrics, health assessment and community health.

Class Notes: 2000s

  • ’00

    25th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

  • ’01

    Natalia Marek Griffin, BE, of Albuquerque, N.M., recently joined vehicle warranty company Smart AutoCare as their chief financial officer.

    Kristy Muther Lucarelli, MSN, is a clinical patient safety specialist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

    Chris Sherrill, BS, of Nashville independently published his first novel, Even Steven, in March. The book is available through Amazon and other booksellers.

  • ’02

    Johan Hoover, MBA, of Dublin, Ohio, recently joined furniture and décor company Arhaus as senior vice president of merchandise planning and allocation.

    Hoover
  • ’03

    Justin F. Keith, BA, a shareholder in law firm Greenberg Traurig’s Boston office and co-chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice’s Labor-Management Relations Group, was named a 2025 “Go-To Employment Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in February.

    Mario Pascual, BS, is director of cardiac electrophysiology at the Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute.

    Steve Small, EMBA, of Nashville writes that after six years of retirement from high school teaching, All Elite Wrestling asked him to return to show business as arena production manager for their weekly live broadcasts and monthly pay-per-view events. On March 3, 2024, he was alongside WWE Hall of Fame wrestler Sting (Steve Borden) as he won his retirement match at the sold-out Greensboro, N.C., Coliseum. He was also there for Sting’s final match for TNA Wrestling in Huntsville, Ala., in 2014, and his final match for World Championship Wrestling in Panama City, Fla., in 2001.

  • ’04

    Sarita Gupta, MS, of Renton, Wash., writes that a new German translation of her 2019 book The Tea Leaf Reader is out. “Der Teeblätterleser delves into mystical realms where tea leaf readings intersect with metaphysical insights. This German edition explores symbolism, fate and inner wisdom,” from The Academic Editor.

  • ’05

    20th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Kristin Evans, MSN, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo.

    Joy Ivemeyer, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Weatherby Healthcare in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a level II/III neonatal intensive care unit, after serving more than 19 years in level III NICUs in the Atlanta area.

    L. Lin Ong, BMus, recently was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor of international business and marketing at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, Calif. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia, conducting research at the Asia School of Business on social enterprises, financial inclusion and entrepreneurship among transitory populations. In June 2025 she will co-chair the Transformative Consumer Research Conference at American University.

  • ’06

    Jill Fincher, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Pediatrix Medical Group in Las Vegas, a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

    Rachel Fendell Satinsky, BA, of Philadelphia, a shareholder at Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice, received the Edward D. Ohlbaum Volunteer Award from the Pennsylvania Innocence Project in May. Fendell Satinsky was selected as the 2025 recipient for her outstanding leadership and work in securing the release of two people after decades of being wrongfully convicted.

  • ’07

    Stephen Johnson, BS, MSN’13, is a nurse practitioner at the University of California San Francisco, specializing in orthopaedic surgery with a focus on foot and ankle conditions.

     Kelly Taylor Patton, BA, of Nashville, was promoted from manager of project management to associate director of project management at Zehnder Communications, an advertising agency with operations in Nashville, Rosemary Beach, Fla., and Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • ’08

    Sarah Alvarez, BA, of East Hampton, N.Y., and Stephen DeFlorio were married in Delray Beach, Fla., in November 2024. She writes that she “was lucky enough to have many of my Vanderbilt Class of ’08 friends in Florida to celebrate our wedding. The crew included several couples who met while we were in undergrad. Catie and Christophe traveled all the way from their new home in Nairobi to join in the festivities.”

    Alyssa Nolan Carlson, MSN, DNP’14, is a nurse practitioner at Emory Hospital Midtown and Grady in Atlanta, both level III neonatal intensive care units.

    April Jaggi, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C., a level III neonatal intensive care unit in a community hospital.

    Katherine DeFries Kote, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Deaconess Women’s Hospital in Newburgh, Ind., a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

    Brie Robinson, MBA, of Nashville co-chaired the Safe City Breakfast in April for the benefit of the Sexual Assault Center.

  • ’09

    Katrice Peterson Feild, BA, competed against other soul country music artists in April at the regional level in Memphis, Tenn., and won the title of 2025 Memphis Soul Country Music Star, performing at the 2025 Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo. She will compete for the national title in November 2025 in Hollywood for a chance to win $10,000 and the overall title of 2025 Soul Country Music Star.

    Monica McKeon Hannah, BS, MSN’10, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta.

    Tamura Lomax, MA, PhD’11, of Richmond, Va., published Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering in May through Duke University Press. She is associate professor of religious studies at Michigan State University and author of Jezebel Unhinged (Duke University Press, 2018).

    Hannah Rosenberg, BA, of Newton Center, Mass., will publish her debut collection of poetry, Same: Poems, in October from St. Martin’s Griffin Press.

    Kyle Hitchcock Weir, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Pediatrix in Greenville, S.C., a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

    Gabrielle Keenan Witmer, BA, of Houston writes that almost 16 years after swabbing her cheek at the Vandy Marrowthon in 2009, she matched with a lymphoma patient and donated stem cells through the National Marrow Donor Program (formerly Be The Match), and she wore her Vanderbilt socks for donation day.

    Miranda Tippens Zolman, MSN, is co-manager and a nurse practitioner at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

Class Notes: 2010s

  • ’10

    15th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Breanna Jacobs Pepin, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Children’s Minnesota, a level III/IV neonatal intensive care unit, and Regions Hospital, a level II NICU, both in Saint Paul.

  • ’11

    Elizabeth Smith Cook, MSN, is nurse practitioner lead at Pediatrix Medical Group in Knoxville, Tenn., a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

    Kristel Lassiter, MSN, is a nurse practitioner and neonatal intensive care unit advanced practice provider clinical education specialist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla.

    Christina Poston Martin, MSN, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Millennium Neonatology in Albuquerque, N.M.

    Drew Silverstein, BMus, joined SourceAudio in February as president, head of AI strategy, responsible for leading the company’s AI initiatives and establishing them as the go-to source for AI music dataset licensing.

  • ’12

    Allison Deissler Fann, BA, and Drew Fann, BS ’11, MEd ’13, announce the birth of their son, August Andrew Fann, July 15, 2024. Auggie joins big brother, Hayes, in their family’s home in Nashville.

    Kyle Broach Hardage, BA, earned licensure as a professional geologist after successfully passing California state board examinations. He continues to advance sustainable groundwater management with the California Department of Water Resources in Sacramento.

    Dana Kelley, BMus, was appointed associate principal violist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., in March. She teaches at the Mannes School of Music (The New School) in New York and is a member of the Orpheus and Orchestra of St. Luke’s chamber ensembles. She’s the second Blair graduate in the National Symphony. Peter Cain, BMus’07, has been a clarinetist with the NSO since 2016.

    Kimberly Smith, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Joshua Thornsberry, MSN, of Marietta, Ga., was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Cardiology in March 2025 at its national convention.

    Adam Wolfe, MS, of Charleston, W.Va., received a national Milken Educator Award for 2024–25 in December 2024. The award comes with a $25,000 cash prize that Wolfe can use for any purpose. He is the sole Milken Educator Award recipient in West Virginia in 2024–25. He is a math and engineering teacher at Nitro High School in Nitro, W.Va.

  • ’13

    Caroline Claiborne, BA, recently joined Aprio, an Atlanta-based accounting and business advisory firm, as the chief of staff to the CEO. Claiborne previously spent 10 years with World 50 Group, a peer-to-peer professional services firm for Fortune 500 executives.

    Hannah Dodson, MSN, of Siler City, N.C., is the founder of Leadline Wellness, named after the leadline used to gently guide horses. The company specializes in personalized, holistic wellness through health and wellness coaching and equine-assisted therapeutic support. The company has been profiled in numerous publications, including Sidelines, Equestrian Living, The Chronicle of the Horse, Horse Illustrated, The American Quarter Horse Journal and Young Rider.

     Morgan Hauenstein, BE, and Eduard Monteagudo, BS’11, MAcc’12, announce the birth their daughter, Colette Ivy Monteagudo, in March 2025, 15 years after meeting at Vanderbilt as undergraduate students. The two were married in 2023 and reside in New York City.

    Twila Mason, PhD, of Bloomfield, Mo., and her contemporary romance novel, Piece by Piece (Red Adept Publishing, 2024), won two 2024 BookFest first place awards in the Contemporary Romance and New Adult Romance categories.

    Renee Sommers-Beagle, MSN, is lead nurse practitioner at Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Mich., a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Sarah Williamson, BE, and Jordan Haddad, BA, were married June 29, 2024, in Dallas.

  • ’14

    Orlin Marquez, MSN, DNP’16, is clinical director at Centro Medico Familiar, a primary care immigrant clinic in Duluth, Ga.

  • ’15

    10th Reunion Nov. 6–9, 2025

    Zach Blumenfeld, BA, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has joined Fox Rothschild in New York as an associate in the Entertainment and Sports Law Department focused on the music industry.

    Blumenfeld

    Elizabeth Bronson, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Vania Brown-Small, DNP, is nurse program director for the depression and anxiety disorders division at McLean Hospital in Middleborough, Mass.

    David Henderson, MSN, is a nurse practitioner in the University of New Mexico’s department of pediatrics neonatology division in Albuquerque.

    Hannah Nolte, BA, MSN’17, PhD’23, and Clint Caudle, BS, of Huntsville, Ala., announce the birth of a son, Adam Wilson Caudle, April 14.

    Heather Venrick, MSN, DNP’17, is clinical assistant professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta.

  • ’16

    Trisha Fridrich, MBA, of Littleton, Colo., recently was promoted to vice president, marketing and communications for Kelsian Group’s U.S. subsidiary, All Aboard America Holdings, the second largest motorcoach transportation company in the U.S. This promotion comes after four years leading business development across All Aboard’s six regional subsidiaries for large transportation contracts for corporations, industrial projects and transit programs.

    Susan Grant, DNP, was named chief clinical officer of Symplr, headquartered in Houston, in January. She was elected to the board of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2024.

    Mary Carlisle Crehore McMahan, BS, of Austin, Texas, announces the birth of a son, John Sherbine McMahan, in August 2024. John is the first grandchild for John Crehore, BA’85, and his wife, Ann Crehore.

    Vanessa Singh, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at University of Minnesota, Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and four community sites.

  • ’17

    Lauren Donaldson, MSN, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Saint Francis Children’s Hospital in Tulsa, Okla.

    Chelsey Hedglin, MDiv, was appointed in January as chair of the board of Pawster, a Nashville-based nonprofit that provides temporary foster care to pets whose owners are in crisis. Hedglin, who brings eight years of experience working in a veterinary hospital, including management of the boarding facility, is a chaplain at Ascension St. Thomas Midtown Hospital.

    Corinne Miller, MSN, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at MultiCare Health System—Capital Medical Center in Olympia, Wash.

  • ’18

    Sara Anderson, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee, a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

    Teresa Pecinovsky, MDiv, of St. Paul, Minn., co-authored with Hannah Rose Martin a new picture book called Sparking Peace, published through Herald Press in April.

    Jacque Weidauer, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, S.D., a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Amanda Whorton, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Warren Clinic Neonatal Specialists in Tulsa, Okla., a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Israel Wipf, BA, has pursued a career in science by earning a master’s in biology from the University of Northern Colorado and is working on a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from the University of Iowa. He has a first-author scientific publication in the journal Gene Expression Patterns, as well as several other publications currently in process. He published his first short story, “White Elephant,” in The African American Review (Johns Hopkins University Press).

  • ’19

    Dixrek Beavers, MEd, of Bloomington, Ind., has opened Beavers Reading Clinic, inspired by working in the reading clinic at Vanderbilt. The clinic offers coaching and assessment services, as well as systematic IEP reviews to help provide support to underserved populations.

    Aimee Madding, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Seattle Children’s Hospital, a regional level II and III/IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Patricia Smith, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in California, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Mallory Summerer, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Trevor Williams, MDiv, of Philadelphia recently graduated from Villanova University and accepted a job as visiting assistant professor at DeSales University, also in Pennsylvania.

Class Notes: 2020s

  • ’20

    5th Reunion November 6–9, 2025

    Jordan Bennett, MSN, of Nashville is a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Latoya Bethune, JD, of Rosedale, N.Y., and a team of attorneys has launched Games That Matter to make legal knowledge accessible to everyone. It was honored by Forbes “30 Under 30” in the Games category. Its debut title, Disbarred: The Card Game™, successfully funded on Kickstarter, is a card game that transforms essential legal concepts into an engaging and approachable experience for everyday individuals. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the game go to support law and pre-law students in need, helping to empower the next generation of legal professionals.

    Savannah Kahn, MSN, is a nurse practitioner at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

    Ariell Kolibas, MSN, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at Corewell Health Michigan in Grand Rapids, and Advent Health in Florida.

    Sophia Lee, BA, of Corpus Christi, Texas, published her debut novel in May. Eliza, From Scratch is published through Quill Tree, an imprint of Harper Collins, and received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. It was also chosen as an IndieBound Indie Next List pick. In May, she had a book event with Loyalty Bookstores in Washington, D.C.

    Atlee Witt, BA, M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, was one of 100 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected in April to receive a $25,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter IC of Castle Rock, Colo.

  • ’22

    Amit Deveraj, MSN, is a nurse practitioner specializing in geriatrics at the Loma Linda University Family Medicine Clinic in California.

    Emma Fagan Timberlake, BA, and Chase Timberlake, BE’21, of Nashville announce the birth of their daughter, Anna Marguerite Timberlake, on Jan. 28 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

    Xin Yi “Zinnie” Zhang, BS, of New York City co-founded Enttor, an AI-native marketing platform that helps consumer brands automate and scale their content production while staying true to their creative voice. As co-founder, she is involved in strategy and execution—building out tech pipelines, working directly with clients and shaping how brands tell their stories in a digital-first world. “It’s been an intense and rewarding journey, and I’m incredibly excited about what’s ahead,” she writes.

     

  • ’23

    Andrea Valladares, MMark, and Matthew Durham were married April 25 at Blakemore Church of the Nazarene in Nashville. She writes, “In a full circle moment, I celebrated with my girls whom I met at Owen (Stephanie Otero, MMark; Mary Cayten Brakefield, MMark; and Caroline Thompson, MMark.)”

  • ’24

    Kara Apel, EMBA, of Nashville accepted a job at energy services firm Schneider Electric as transformation strategy communications leader in March 2025.

  • ’25

    Akram Siddique, BA, of Hyattsville, Md., extends his thanks to his family for their support “after eight years across six universities in three countries, completing two bachelor’s programs with four majors. … I’m forever grateful to the mentors who guided my explorations and made lifelong friends who shared this journey. Pay it forward to those who did something for you; be grateful and nice to them. We live once.”