Class Notes

I worked as an Art Teacher in the Valley View Schools Germantown Montgomery Co Ohio for 25 years and when retired in 1995 taught Preble Co. Home School students for 18 years. Now living in Texas I am teaching in the Sr. Center in Lake Worth Texas.

The Private Detective



As a novice private investigator, Jinx Curry hates her job. The single mom spends her days spying on cheating wives and husbands, but she aches for more importance.



When her boss Capricorn Hayes finally assigns Jinx a missing persons case involving a congressman's missing granddaughter, Jinx jumps at the chance. Not only to solve it, but to earn the fifty-thousand-dollar bonus that would pay her bills, and get a menacing creditor off her back.



But the investigation proves more dangerous and costly than Jinx believes. After an unknown individual in a black Corvette nearly runs Jinx down and begins stalking her, Jinx has to sacrifice her relationship with her daughter by sending Arielle to live with her father. Can Jinx find the congressman's daughter while surviving her stalker? Or will this job be her last?



The Players



Deebo: He’s the scintillating rapper who may be secretly married to the missing teen. A marriage revelation infringes on the rapper's rising-star status. Did Deebo off his wife to preserve record sales?



Bam: He’s Jinx’s childhood friend who loaned the sleuth a boatload of money. With Jinx unable to repay the loan, has Bam decided to make an example out of Jinx for lack of repayment?



Elena: She’s the missing person. Perhaps Elena doesn’t want to be found. Will she kill Jinx to prevent the sleuth from exposing her location?



Young Calloway: He's the Georgetown Law dropout and only grandson of Congressman Calloway. After Jinx discovers the young grandson's envy and rivalry between, he and Elena, Jinx also uncovers Young Calloway's dark past. Has the young Calloway decided to eliminate Jinx to cover up his crimes?



Congressman Calloway: Up for re-election, the congressman cannot afford a family scandal. Did he hire Jinx to find Elena to coverup the young teen's possible murder? If so, has he decided to eliminate Jinx to clean up the family mess?

Katie Tilly ‘10, of Lansing Michigan, graduated with her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Michigan State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, in May 2024. She will be joining Evergreen Veterinary Clinic in Okemos, Michigan, as a small animal associate veterinarian. She looks forward to working closely with pets and their people delivering compassionate medical care.

Sarah Toney was elected as the 3rd VP of the Illinois State Bar Association. She will become President in 2027 and will be only the 8th woman to serve in this role. Sarah is a lawyer and owns a DUI & Criminal Defense law firm in Chicago.

Chris Hermann, Principal of MKSK, has achieved the city planning profession’s highest honor by being selected to hold the prestigious title of American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Fellow for his outstanding achievements in urban planning. Fellowship is awarded for excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, public and community service, leadership, and a positive, long-lasting impact on the city planning profession.

In spring 2024 Brandon opened his own strategic communications and public relations firm focused on telling compelling stories designed to drive awareness and engagement.

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Ross Hunt, certified financial planner, has been accepted into the nation's most exclusive group of financial advisers � Ed Slott's Elite IRA Advisor Group, composed of financial advisers dedicated to solving the country's biggest and most complex financial problem � effectively managing the distribution of assets from Individual Retirement Accounts. To be a member, an adviser must meet the educational requirements and make a commitment to continue IRA training with Ed Slott and Co. Slott, called""The Best"" source for IRA advice by The Wall Street Journal, has created the nationally aired and No. 1 public television fundraising special""Stay Rich Forever & Ever with Ed Slott."" Ross notes,""Since IRAs were first established in 1974, the only thing most advisers and investors have worried about is how to get money into them. Now, with baby boomers entering their retirement years, and once-secure pensions disappearing, investors will have to change their focus. The real issue now is how to get money out of their IRAs correctly without losing an undue amount to taxes or penalties. There are very few advisers that even know what to look for. The Elite IRA Advisor Group members not only know what to look for, they know what to do."" Ross specializes in retirement plan distributions for pre-retirees, retirees, and small-business owners in his financial consulting firm, Ross & Mary Hunt Inc., in Murrieta, Calif. This year marks his 42nd as a certified financial planner.

My book, Spiritual Nutrition, published by John Hunt, is available for pre-sale on Amazon. It looks at energy --E=MC squared -- as a source of nutrition stirring or settling us, uniting or dividing us, sickening or healing us. The book presents way to lighten and lift our energy, enabling us to join the "one" of it all.

Energy is the unifying factor of all things, the Buddha-nature, a panetheistic view, or the Jewish "ikar" (essence).

Natalie Hostacky Stevens was recognized by Ohio Super Lawyers (Super Lawyer - Employment Litigation: Defense), Best Lawyers in America (Best Lawyer - Employment Law: Management), and Crain's Cleveland in its Notable Women in Law publication (February 2024).

The crew from MUDEC ‘88, Kristi (Wertz) Maher ‘89, Bobby Blaha ‘89, Kim (Garlick) Meissner ‘89, Gregg Palaian ‘89 and Bernadette (Huddy) Geis ‘89 reunited for a weekend of laughter and memories at Kim’s place in Longboat Key, Florida. We were missing our good friends Dane Martin ‘89 and Matt Sanders ‘89. While the Zoom cocktail party was fun during Covid, it was much better to be back in person!

Christa Chavez, founder of Chicago-based boutique media consultancy, A La Carte Media Consulting, is thrilled to announce an expansion with the addition of two new owners. The ownership team consists of seasoned professionals with experience in comms planning, strategy, activation, and analytics. A La Carte Media Consulting’s Founder, Christa will remain as CEO with Ethan Krupp and Sammy Pepper joining as Co-Founders.

A La Carte Media Consulting is an integrated media consultancy that provides highly customized strategy, planning, and execution services across all paid and organic media channels for its clients. The model is agile and built to flex based on individual client needs.

Brent McCreary has joined Maximum Entertainment Productions, a New York City theatrical producing and management office, as their Associate General Manager. In addition, he is the Director of Ticketing and Revenue for The Great Gatsby, opening on Broadway in April 2024.

James ("Randy") Given and his wife Sharon celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in December.

Class of ‘91

Lifetime friends, Mike “Gimp” Phelan, Kevin Jones, Brian Evans, Wes Wettengel, Gary Schnettler, and Tim Peterson travelled across the country to meet up in Joshua Tree National Forest for a reunion weekend. They met freshman year and have been friends ever since.

During October 2023 Miami friends (and former roommates) got together for a “mini-reunion” traveling to Portugal, France, and Switzerland. Here we are in the magical village of Annecy, France: Tamra Gory (79), Deja Likens (77), Teresa Cline (78), Sara Campbell (79), Marsha Schneider (79).

Susan and her co-writer husband, Doug Decatur had a staged reading of their second full-length play "Lovestruck" performed on November 14, 2023 at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati. The play is a compilation of 8 ten-minute plays written by and about the story of how a serendipitous meeting enabled Susan and Doug to finally find each other after Doug remembered seeing Susan perform with the Shakerettes during the halftime show at the Miami/UC basketball game in December 1976. Doug never forgot the routine he saw done to the popular Aerosmith song, "Walk This Way" and hoped that someday he would finally (maybe) meet Susan. As luck would have it, it finally happened on April 6, 2017 at a random ballroom dance class. They were married one year later on April 7, 2018 and are now enjoying their life together as writing partners as well. You can't make this stuff up!

Jonathan Reardon '05, MS '08 has joined the Board of Trustees at Bethany School in Glendale, Ohio, where he has taught for eight years.

David Warren A.B. 1958 has just completed a celebrated project called North Carolina Freedom Park, honoring the African American struggles and triumphs in pursuit of freedom. He was the executive co-chair and responsible for raising $7 million over the the last 20 years to develop and construct this significant destination landmark in the state capital of Raleigh. David devoted his efforts to this during his retirement as professor of health law and policy at Duke University where he received a law degree in 1964. David lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife Marsha White Warren B.S. 1960.

Married: Ryan Lockemeyer and Mary Kay Reilly, April 23 2022. They had their first child Jan. 20, 2023, Ezekiel James Lockemeyer.

Adam Frank PhD ’19 has a new book, Non-Punitive School Discipline: Relational Practices to Help Students Overcome Problem Behaviors. In it, he describes the benefits to both teachers and students of using a relational discipline approach, drawing on his experiences as a teacher, coach, and school principal to show how discipline done right can help students to grow in self-management and responsibility. Listening to students and getting to know them are key to helping them to see consequences and make good choices, he states. He includes sample teacher-student dialogues and shares guidelines that have helped hundreds of teachers avoid the frustration and discouragement that often occur when working with student misbehavior.