Susanna Schaeffer Smith P ’16 reported, “I have some exciting news to share.  Greg and I are thrilled to share that our daughter, Anna Smith Brisbane ’16 married Douglas Brisbane ’14 on January 7, 2017 here in Potomac, MD.  Kristine Millet ’87 and her wife Lisa Colagiovanni and their children, Koen & Tessa wouldn’t have missed the day. Anna Kate is a Cash Management Analyst with Lockheed Martin at headquarters in Bethesda, MD & Douglas is a Territory Sales Manager with Jesco, Inc. Brenna Elizondo ’16, Bailey Wright ’16, Adam Patterson ’13, Joseph O’Hara ’14, and Travis Kline ’13 all joined in celebration as members of the wedding party.  Many Hood College alums shared in the day!”

1988

Susan Boebel Alis
757-229-8541″
susanalis@yahoo.com

Charlotte “Bambi” Volatile-Goebel reported, “Hi Susan, I’m writing you in the middle of day 2 of freshman orientation for my daughter. Marjorie graduated from high school here in Florida in June with honors. She has also been accepted into Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) where she will start in August. Some may remember that my oldest are twins and my son, Christian also graduated from high school but in Maryland. He has plans to go to Howard Community College and get an apartment with friends to stay in the Columbia area. Christian spent some time after graduation with me in Florida and was able to find his first car. So what does a mother do but have a mother/son road trip back to Maryland! We drove his new car (2 days) from Cape Coral, FL to Columbia, Md. Nice quality time with my son. The final “graduation” that I had this June was for my youngest. Patricia is moving onto middle school next year and like all elementary school kids, this comes with mixed emotions. She is excited to take on the next challenge in school but doesn’t want to leave all of her friends and teachers from her elementary school. Patricia is also active in synchronized swimming and her team participated in their first event in Sarasota. The team participated in 3 events: team, trio, and solo. She was in the team and trio groups. The team placed 2nd for the 11-12 age group. The trio placed 5th for the 11-12 age group. The girl in the solo (not Trish) placed 7th for the 9-10 age group. It feels like there was more but I think this is enough! Hope you are doing well.” I, Susan Boebel Alis, “Finished up another academic teaching year with the close of the school year. This year marked 21 years in education. Roman and I became empty nesters last August when Mackenzie headed off to the University of Mary Washington as a freshman. We enjoyed out time together exploring Williamsburg and getting to know our state better with lots of weekend trips and time with family and friends. This summer will be spent catching up on reading, professional development and family. Classmates: It is time for me to step down as class reporter. If you are interested in taking on the volunteer position, please contact Ashley Nick Wilson ’08, C’14 at wilsona@hood.edu.”

Susan Boebel Alis
757-229-8541
susanalis@yahoo.com

Pam Noble wrote, “I am still employed almost 24 years (March 2015) at the scientific library at NCI, Fort Detrick. I have taken an on-call job working for Frederick County Public Libraries. I am volunteering with the Alumni Heritage Committee for Frederick High School and I’ve sought the expertise of the archivist of the Hood archives several times. My oldest son Austin graduated with a history degree (just like dear old Mom) from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is deliberating on what graduate school to attend in the fall. My middle son Hollis will graduate from high school this May which is quite an achievement for him since he has autism. We are even enrolling him at Frederick Community College part-time in the fall. My youngest Lauren who is 9-years-old, is a few years away from all of this excitement, but she has mentioned going to Hood.  Of course, that all depends on what career she wants to pursue. She was impressed with the Claire McCardell (fashion designer from Frederick who attended Hood College) exhibit at the Frederick County Historical Society. So, who knows!”

1988
Susan Boebel Alis
susanalis@yahoo.com

Julie Brinkman continues to get together with Tibetha Owen ’90, Melissa Hubbard-Allen ’90, Eileen Lednum Downey ’91, MBA ’09 and Kim Tordoff Sexton ’89 for lunch. She attended reunion weekend this year and it was nice to see Tammie Nicodemus Kincaid, B.A. ’91, M.S. ’97, at the alumni luncheon. Julie attended the Hood concert series this summer. Eunice Dubuque-Aronson  sent me a quick email and was proud to say that her niece Kristen Annika Brattstrom ’14 graduated from Hood this May with a degree in psychology. She said it was an honor to attend the graduation with her two sons Wyatt, 10, and Sebastian, 8. Sherri Lieske LaMonica is still living in Rising Sun, Md. Sherri is now a cashier and cash office assistant for Lowe’s, a homeschool mom, 4H mom and church volunteer. Their son Lucas graduated high school and is studying at Cecil College. Their daughter Morgan will be a junior in high school in the fall. Four- years ago they adopted a little boy Anthony.  He is now 6 years old and will be a first grader in the fall! Sherri keeps in touch with Eve Ryba Rothenberg but would love to hear from others in our class. Susanna Schaeffer Smith, P’16 sent me a lovely long email! She is excited to announce that she and Greg will be married 23 years in October. “Our oldest Anna Kate Smith ’16 is a rising junior at Hood,” said Susanna. Susanna said she loves everything about it! She said, “Life does not get much smaller or better when Anna Kate announced she had a wonderful roommate Catherine Traini ’16 (mom is Christine Fricke Traini ’87, P’16).” Susanna said that the greatest moment came when her daughter revealed who her fabulous Introduction to Law professor was, Teresa Rivera Bean J.D. ,’87  who is running for State’s Attorney in Frederick. Susanna mentioned how her Hood world is so very different yet filled with many of the same traditions! Their son Daniel will enter his senior year of high school and loves his life with a lifeguard job and college applications. Susanna said that she and Greg have their busy work lives with Greg’s international travel as the chief technology officer with ASCD in Arlington, Va., and accomplished author who travels the world addressing Internet safety. Susanna serves as an educational consultant to schools and private industry and an adjunct faculty position. Bambi Volatile-Goebel wrote in to announce that they have moved into a new house. They moved in June to a new place that she and her husband built in a gated golf course community. They needed to upsize as their blended family is larger than their first house could hold comfortably! Her new address is 11711 Royal Tee Circle, Cape Coral, FL 33991 and would love to have visitors. Bambi did meet up with Daphne Finch Colangelo  while visiting Las Vegas in May at a conference for her husband’s company. They had a great time walking and talking for two days! Debra Lee Megill DeMine resides in Las Cruces, N.M. She is drawing her pension from the State of Maryland where she was in law enforcement for 18 years after four years of private police work. She now works for General Dynamics. “My husband and I are awaiting our first grandchild to middle child, Lance Cpl. Alex DeMine,” said Debra. Their daughter Megan is attending New Mexico State Univ. and son Kevin is working as a supervisor for a security alarm monitoring call center in Northern Virginia. Kevin was also awarded Best Sound for a Musical by Washington Area Theatre Community Honors this past March. I, Susan Boebel Alis, continue to teach second grade with the Williamsburg James City County Schools in Virginia. I had the pleasure to be nominated by my peers for the Williamsburg Area Reading Council Reading Teacher of the Year for this past school year. What an honor. Although I did not win, it was awesome to be recognized for all my hard work over the years in the field of education. Mackenzie will be a senior this fall so we will be busy with school, college visits, applications, basketball and Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums. Roman’s mom moved closer to us to be in an assisted living facility so it is nice to see her almost every weekend.

Greetings to the class of 1988! I hope this finds everyone well. Please feel free to forward me any news and updates to the above email addresses. For those of you on Facebook you can send me updates that way also, I love keeping up with many of you there! I am finally building my email distribution list and I apologize for any confusion about submitting updates to me. Please continue to send them to me throughout the year and I will include it in the next issue. Tonya Anderson Crawley received her master’s degree in special education from the Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs and is teaching 8th grade in Colorado Springs, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Catherine Hemphill wrote that she somewhat eloped with her next door neighbor, Tim Naugle, this past February on a beach in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which was attended by only a few friends. They followed up this beautiful wedding with a seven-day honeymoon cruise to St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Grand Turk. They are currently living in her house on Norva Avenue in Frederick, so no moving van was necessary for the big move. She also celebrated 20 years of employment with Wells Fargo in June 2012.

Jane Halfen Caputo is busy working in the family business in New Jersey, and her husband Jim is with UPS. Their son is currently a freshman at Virginia Tech with a major in engineering; their daughter Jullian is a freshman in high school. Anita Christie and husband Buz are parents to sons Sean, 15, and Aidan, 12. She currently works full time with adults with intellectual disabilities and is also a part-time consultant with Tastefully Simple.

Heidi Jones McKeon lives north of Seattle, Wash., with her husband John. They are parents to son John, 21, who works with his dad in their own financial planning business. Heidi said that she is “retired” from retail work but is a full-time search and rescue volunteer and a full-time beagle breeder, exhibiter, groomer and rescuer of cats! Jean Rhodes-Moen has been busy with daughters Kaja, 19, and Thea, 12 almost 13! Currently in Ashville, N.C., she is busy as a jewelry artist, specializing in silver filigree, a traditional Norwegian technique she learned from her late husband Bjorn.

Charlotte Volatile-Goebel is mom to twin 14 year olds, a boy and a girl, as well as an 8-year-old girl. She currently resides in Florida and is a consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics. I continue to live and work in Williamsburg, Va., as a second grade teacher and adjunct faculty member for The College of William and Mary. My daughter Mackenzie just recently received her learner’s permit, so I have acquired a few more gray hairs! She also has started playing junior varsity basketball for her high school, and that keeps us busy along with drumming for the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums. The family, along with my husband Roman, keeps busy with a lot of traveling (when time permits) to family in Delaware and Massachusetts.

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