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1985
Ron Clark
and Cindy Edenfield Clark (1987) are proud to announce the birth
of their first child, Ronald Chandler, on September 21, 2001. Ron
and Cindy have been married for seven years and live in Savannah. Ron
works with his father at Clark and Sons, Inc., and Cindy is a registered
nurse and has worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Memorial
Health University Medical Center for nine years.
1990
Landon Westbrook
is performing in New York City in a show entitled, “Glory, Hallelujah!
- A Night of Music for the Soul” with the Metro Mass Choir, a new
group of singers from various backgrounds, faiths and walks of life.
Many have previously sung together at venues such as Lincoln Center,
Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden. Landon writes that
the choir has reserved a large block of tickets for their December 20,
2001 performance at Town Hall to sell to families and friends, and these
are the best seats in the house.Those
interested in purchasing tickets can contact Landon via email at llwestbrook@yahoo.com
Class of 1991 Enjoys Ten-Year Reunion
By Brian Dennison, ‘91
The SCPS Class of 1991 held its ten-year reunion on Homecoming
weekend. About 25 enthusiastic classmates attended the festivities.
The reunion kicked off Friday night at the SCPS
football game, where class members came out to cheer on the Raiders and
enjoy burgers and hot dogs prepared by the Alumni Association. We found that
a few things had changed, but an alumna cheerleader noted that many of the cheers were still exactly the same!
Saturday afternoon the classmates and their
families enjoyed a cookout at the Chatham Parkway campus.
As we toured the campus we were amazed at some of the exciting
changes over the past decade. Past
and present teachers Dave Corbett, Sharon Brown and Marcia Welch were
there to get the scoop on what everyone is doing these days!
A low country boil catered by Russo's Seafood was
enjoyed by all Saturday night at The Landings’ Delegal Marina. Everyone enjoyed laughing at old photos while listening to
“our” tunes from high school! Finally, everyone received a directory to keep in touch with old friends.
Special
thanks to Jennifer Reiser Griffin '91 for all her work to ensure
a good turnout. Thanks also
to the SCPS Alumni Association for organizing Saturday’s cookout,
especially Eddie Wilson '88, Jamie McCurry '92 and Angela
Alcorn '95. Finally, thanks to Amy Justice '91 for all the great decorations!
1992
 Brian Burch
and his wife Stacey announce the birth of their first child, Andrew Evan
Burch, born on March 18, 2001.
They live in Tallahassee, Fla. where Brian is employed as an Account Manager
for The Zimmerman Agency, an advertising /public relations firm. Stacey
serves as Director of Basketball Operations for Women¹s Basketball at
Florida State University. Brian
and Stacey met at Mercer University, where Brian graduated in 1997.
1997
Joyce Watson,
a senior Vocal Performance major at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn.,
was selected as third runner-up in Lee's annual beauty pageant,
"Parade of Favorites." She performed an original piano and
vocal composition during the talent competition. She is a little sister
of Upsilon Xi, secretary of Delta Zeta Tau,
a member of Campus Choir and Pure Heart ladies' ensemble and serves on
the Advancement Force. She was in the Lee University theatre production
of West Side Story.
1999
Meredith Boggs,
a sophomore broadcast communications major at Georgia Southern
University, was crowned Miss Coastal Empire Fair in November.
Meredith will next travel to Atlanta to compete in the Miss
Georgia Agricultural Fairs Scholarship Pageant on January 26, 2002, one
of the largest preliminaries for the Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant.
Meredith is a member of Phi Mu sorority.
2001
Julie Watson
was one of two freshman girls elected to the Lee University Homecoming Court. Julie is
a member of the Backyard Ministries, Intramural Sports,
and the Student Leadership Council.
November 2001
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1976
Phillip
Thomas lives near Montgomery, Ala. with his wife and two youngest
children. His two adult children live in Savannah. Philip is retired
from the Air Force, and recently completed a Bachelors degree from
Troy State University in Montgomery (25 years later)!
Philip writes that he looks forward to staying in better
touch and hopefully making it to his next class reunion, which would
Sheila Bennett has relocated to
Chicago to take a position as Senior Director, Industry Relations with
the National Restaurant
Association Education Foundation. Sheila has more than 11 years of
experience with PYA/ Monarch, and was responsible as a National
Account Development Executive for generating $235 million in yearly
sales. Sheila is also
actively involved in the Women’s Foodservice Forum, March of Dimes
and S.O.S. Taste of the Nation.
1979
Curtis
Thomson works in commercial print sales for Executive Printing in
Atlanta. After attending
Armstrong State College on a baseball scholarship, he spent ten years
with Applebee’s in upper level management and corporate, then
another two in sales and management for a large flooring company. Curtis and wife Donna married in 1993 and have two children,
Caitlyn and Tanner (a ball player like dad), who are in first grade
and Kindergarten, respectively.Curtis
writes that his most vivid memory of SCPS is “…how close everybody
was to each other. It was as if we were one big family.”
The
Printing Industry Association of Georgia recently honored Spanish Moss
Printing owner Alvin B. Carter, Jr. with its Benjamin Franklin
Award, the highest honor presented to an individual in Georgia’s
printing industry. A
35-year veteran of the printing business, Alvin was recognized by the
PIAG for “…his commitment and dedication to furthering growth and
fostering a sense of community in Georgia’s printing industry.”
Father of SCPS alums Mark ’81 and Phillip ’82
who also work in the family business, and grandfather to Zachary,
Class of ‘14, Alvin is a longtime Raider booster and has provided
printing services to the school for many years.
The football practice field is named in his honor.
1983
Pamela
Partin Stewart is an RN and has been employed at Backus
Children’s Hospital at Memorial Health University Medical Center for
five years.She is currently in massage therapy school to become certified as an infant
massage trainer. She and husband Kenneth have been >married
for 15 years, and have two daughters, Kaitlyn and Kasey.
Wyck Newberry lives in Moore, S.C. where he works
for Temple-Inland. Previously, he traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and
Canada for International Paper.He writes that his hobbies of big-game hunting and fishing have taken him
on three African safaris among other international trips. He also takes annual ski trips to western states and the French
Alps with a group of UGA college friends.
Wyck says he currently spends most of his free time fly fishing
in the mountain streams of North Carolina.
1984
Kent Wickham placed on Dean’s List for Summer 2001 at John Marshall
1985
Melissa Milligan has taught Health and PE at Bartow Elementary since
graduating from Georgia Southern in 1992. She writes that she has been very involved in her church,
taking part in three praise and worship CD recordings.
1987
Kimberly Levenson-Oliver was married to Allen Oliver of Dallas, Tex.
on March 23, 2001. The couple enjoyed an all-expenses-paid honeymoon
at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort as winners of a Bride's Magazine
sweepstakes.Kimberly
reports, “It was paradise!” and wants her fellow alums to know
that people really DO win these contests!
Kimberly and Allen together run a video/television production
company in Dallas, Allen J. Oliver Productions. Kimberly says their website,
www.ajoproductions.com
has information about their company along with more wedding &
1989
Sheldon
Palefsky and his wife Elaine announce the birth of their second
child, Jared Rosen Palefsky, born September 19, 2001.
Jared joins three-year-old sister Lauren. Sheldon is a property and casualty insurance agent for
Northside Insurance in Atlanta.
Robert
Ashby recieved a BA in
Anthropology from the University of Georgia, then graduated from UGA
Law School in 1997.He
practiced law for a short time in the U.S. before meeting his wife
Helen, an artist, and moving to Australia. In 1998, Bob received a
Masters in Environmental Management from the University of Queensland
and is self-employed as an environmental acoustics specialist.
1990
Chris
Whitfield was recently named Sports Editor of The Courier Herald,
a six-day-a-week newspaper in middle Georgia.
Married in 1999, Chris and his wife Michele live in Dublin, Ga.
1995
Ginna
Ewaldsen and Doug Carroll were married in Savannah on September
22, 2001.They live in
Atlanta where Ginna is a senior accountant at Ernst and Young and Doug
works for Lithonia Lighting in their National Accounts group.
Craig
Houston and wife Kelly Daniels Houston are the proud parents of
Thomas Daniel Houston, born on July 22, 2001.They live in Savannah.
1997
Nancy
Rimedio is a
Mechanical Engineering major at Georgia Tech and expects to graduate
in August of 2002. She has co-oped throughout her college career (alternating
semesters of work and school).Last
spring she participated in a Tech study abroad program in Australia,
New Zealand, the Cook Islands and Tahiti, receiving credit for four
electives while traveling and studying under the auspices of many
different universities.Nancy
writes, “ I took an Architecture course while in Australia and got
to study places like the Sydney Opera House and the Olympic Village.
In New Zealand, I took a Religion and Society course and a Biosystems
course. In Tahiti and the Cook Islands, I took a Marine Biology
Course and snorkeled two days a week for field work. It was
amazing. I was gone for three months and had so many
experiences, including getting scuba certified and diving in each
location. It was just neat to get to see different cultures on a
day-to-day basis and to experience the world at large. I would
encourage anyone to look into studying abroad with their
University.”
Molly Muschamp received
a BBA degree in Marketing from the University of Georgia in May 2001.
She lives in Atlanta where she is employed by Chartwell, Inc.
as a Marketing Assistant.
Brad
Fickett and
Kathryn Elizabeth Stubbs were married on August 11, 2001 in Asheville,
N.C. They live in Charleston, S.C. where Brad is employed by British Petroleum.
1998
Meredith
Nesbitt Atwood graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of
Georgia with an A.B. in English in August 2001 and will begin UGA Law
School in August of 2002.On
October 19, 2001 she was married to James A. Atwood III, a graduate of
Jenkins High School and a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry at the
University of Georgia. The newlyweds live in Athens.
1999
Alicia
Barger is a Special Education major at Georgia Southern University
and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
2000
Bo Major, a second year student at Georgia Tech, received and
accepted a bid to join the Iota Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national
honorary music fraternity.He
is currently playing in the drum line of the Yellow Jackets Marching
Band.
Emily
Anderson attends Georgia
College and State University and is majoring in Exercise Science. She
earned Dean's List with a 3.7 GPA for Fall 2000 and Spring 2001
Semesters.
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