H-B WOODLAWN
JUNK MAIL
The newsletter of the H-B Woodlawn Alumni Association
Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 1997
Here are extracts from the 1996
Survey the school mailed to alumni:
Key: Name - (Residence) Education. Place
in Life. Pithy Quote.
(Multiples in education mean grad school at
the same place. Place in life is loosely
defined and by no means restrictive. )
- Class of 1972
- Michael Schaffner - (Arl.)Poet
- Class of 1973
- Carla Anne Von Bernewitz - (Arl.) MBA - Software Engineer
- Class of 1975
- Meredith Bean McMath - (Hillsboro) Novelist
- Class of 1976
- Susan K. Dodge - (Fairfax) Owner - Earth Treasures
- Paula Henstridge - (Arl.) Congressional
Liason for a Department of Agriculture
office
- Douglas Jaslow - (Arl.) "Playing music
again, skiing, windsurfing, working out,
going to Unity Church. Loving life."
- Bess Mayer - (Marshall, VA) Freelance
animator, illustrator, painter and garden
waiter
- Jill Miles - (Charleston, WV) Deputy
Attorney General (Consumer Protection
and Antitrust)
- Tyra Newman - (Arl.) Works in DOD
- Class of 1977
- Liz Bridges (Boise, ID) "I took the words on
my diploma to heart ('I'm a wild seed
again, let the wind blow!') and
wandered at will: Montreal, Oregon,
Nantucket, Boulder, Thailand, Nepal,
Boise."
- Larry Caldwell (Scottsdale, AZ) B.F.A.,
M.Ed. (in progress) Health Care
consultant
- Barbara Louise Capozio - (Bedford, NY)
"After marriage in '81, participant in
charitable organizations in NY City and
Westchester Co. (sent in by her
mother)"
- Constance Chubb - (D.C.) Earlham, GMU.
ESL Teacher, D.C. Schools
- Liz Coffey - (Brooklyn) Hunter College.
Teaching Health and Sex Ed. at
alternative school.
- Barbara W. Fisher (Arl.) Univ. of Colorado,
North Carolina. Psychotherapist in
private practice.
- Wilma H. Jones (Arl.) VCU, GMU. MCI
Government markets. Also President of
Krosswire Records (Jazz label)
- Karen S. Kovach (Chulmette, LA) Tulane,
Univ. of NO. Student, Tulane Law.
- Mike Kurland - (Herndon) Georgetown
Univ. Price Waterhouse Management
Consulting
- Wendy Macleod - (Gambries, OH) Kenyon,
Yale. Associate Professor, Kenyon
College. (Playwright)
- "Fritz" Neil - (Troy, MI) Princeton, Boston
College. Union-side labor attorney.
- Len Schmidt - (Starksboro, VT) "Self-
employed hillbilly" Author: "Moulding
a profile on a curved surface" February
'91 Fine Woodworking Magazine.
- Lisa Traina - (Dunn Loring, VA) Self-
employed at Baird Automotive, Inc.
- Susan Weinberg - (Boone, NC) Boston Univ.,
Cornell, Stanford. Assistant Prof.
Appalachian State Univ.
- Andy White - (Arl.) St. John's College, Univ.
of Illinois. Actor.
- Class of 1978
- Kent Allen - (D.C.) Stanford. Editor -
National Desk The Washington Post
- Caroline Frances Bell - (Crofton, MD) VPI,
Univ. of Baltimore. Public Defense
Attorney.
- Thomas T. Daniels - (Glen Ridge, NJ)
Dartmouth, Univ. of Chicago. Chase
Securities.
- Karen DeLaBarre - (Arl.) "David and I
played with the band, Roadducks,
touring up and down the East Coast.
[We] were married on Valentine's Day
in 1990 and we had our first child,
Megan. Even six days overdue with
Megan, I was still playing with the
band."
- Dinah Dieske - (Brooklyn) SUNY, Boston
Univ., City College. High School
Teacher.
- John Heimann - (San Francisco) Harvard.
Manager at Oracle Corporation.
- Jeff Thomas - (D.C.) Architect with Brehhan
Deer Gorman Monk Architects.
- Class of 1979
- Lori Ball - (Los Angeles) William & Mary.
Director of PR, Universal Studios.
- Melanie Holloway (Stoughton, MA) NVCC
& Northeastern Univ. "My sister Melissa
Holloway ('80) was killed in a car
accident in Telluride, CO, in 1993, where
she was living with her husband of one
year."
- Hilary Johnson - (Richmond) VCU.
Richmond City Public Schools.
- Aaron Margosis - (Arl.) UVa. Software
Engineer
- John Nicolson - (Evanston, IL) Grinnel
College, Univ. of Ill@Chicago. Sr.
Application Engineer.
- Nicole Ruffine - (Brooklyn) Yale. Film
Editor
- Tamara Elain Schaffer (Mosier, OR) Univ. of
Washington. Silviculturist (grower of
trees) with Forest Service, Mt. Hood
National Forest.
- Class of 1980
- Margaret "Misty" Bloom - (Germantown,
MD) GWU, Catholic Univ. Attorney for
non-profit corporations. "Still mellow."
- Shelly Brown - (Rice, MN) Univ. of
Wisconsin; Minnesota. Assistant
Professor, St. Cloud State University.
- Theresa Ganley (San Francisco) NC School
of the Arts. Stage Manager, SF Opera,
Houston Grand Opera.
- David W. Utter (Stamford, CT) Cornell.
Prudential Securities.
- Keith Wyatt - (Arl.) William & Mary, Univ.
of Florida. Currently in Chile.
- Class of 1981
- Ann Fussel (Falls Church) Hood, GMU.
Fairfax Public Schools.
- George B. Haskell (NYC) Univ. of NC,
Columbia. Social Worker.
- Rachel McCoy (Richmond) VA Tech, Univ.
of Richmond. French Teacher.
- John Moran (Arl.) Oberlin, Schola Cantorum
Basel (Swiss), King's College (London).
Freelance Cellist.
- Class of 1982
- Susan Hines (Riverdale, MD) Mount Vernon
College, American Univ. Library
Researcher - Oxford English Dictionary.
- Steven Mayer (Springfield) GMU, GMU.
Assistant Director, US Chess Center.
Author of many chess articles.
- David Nicolson - (Arl.) GMU, Univ. of
Miami
- Alison Rosa - (Arl.) Temple. 2nd Assistant
Director, Feature Films (The American
President, IQ, Contact, Murder at 1600)
- Class of 1983
- Richard Biby - (Arl.) GMU. Owner - Biby
Engineering Services, PC.
- Elise Cohen - (Arl.) Carnegie Mellon, School
of Visual Arts. Fine Arts Express.
- Bill Robertson - (Laurinburg, NC) St.
Andrews Presbyterian College.
Laurinburg & Southern Railroad.
- Janet Swisher - (Austin, TX) Univ. of
Chicago. Trilogy Development
(software)
- Cheryl Williford - (Arl.) Nova-Strayer, GW.
Multimedia and Interactive Media.
- Class of 1984
- Chris Corlett - (Bowie, MD) UVa. Peace
Corps (Gabon), currently in
Mozambique with USAID-Census
Bureau.
- Jessica Dubin - (North Bennington, VT)
Bennington, SUNY. High School Art &
Ceramics teacher.
- Blair England - (Alexandria) Univ. of Texas.
Naval Aviator, VR-53 NAF Washington.
- Melissa Mae Hicks - (State College, PA)
Penn State Univ. Owner/Operator -
Castle & Critter Sitters.
- Alison Hines - (Manassas, VA) "Domestic
Engineer."
- Tania Mariani - (Athens, GA) In graduate
school - Special Ed./ESL
- Class of 1985
- Philip R. Akers - (Burke, VA) GMU. CTA,
Inc. Financial Analyst.
- Elizabeth "Ibby" Biby - (New Orleans)
Tulane. Manager, Earthsavers, Inc.
Fulbright Scholar (France), Homeowner.
- Deborah Clark - (Columbus, OH) Oberlin.
Irish fiddler, band manager, fiddle
teacher.
- Glenn R. Groves - (Arl.) GMU
- Charles Haskins - (Germantown, MD) VA
Tech, Johns Hopkins. Lockheed Martin
- Andrew Kastenmeier - (Brooklyn)
Wesleyan Univ. Freelance Filmmaker
- Haig Lars Kavaldjian - (Arl.) JMU. Sr.
Systems Analyst, Ellsworth Assoc.
- Molly O'Hear - (Elkton, VA) JMU. Special
Ed. Teacher.
- Craig Lyons - (Durham, NC)
- Class of 1986
- Jennifer Adelman - (Ithaca, NY) American
Univ., Pratt Institute. Employed at
Cornell.
- Martin Boo - (VA Beach) UVa. Nuclear
Engineer, Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
- John Crouch - (Arl.) Brown, William &
Mary. Family Law Attorney. Author:
"Real Families Are Under Attack from
Left and Right."
- Jim Defay - (Falls Church) Software
Engineer.
- Abbe Burdetsky - (Alexandria, VA) GWU.
State & Federal Associates.
- Darek Bushnaw - (Lexington, VA) Grinnell,
UNC Chapel Hill, Washington & Lee
Univ. Law Student (expect grd 1997).
- Vikki Denslow - (Virginia Beach) UVa.
Environmental Inspector.
- Scott Endo - (Minneapolis) Oberlin, Univ. of
Minnesota. Peace Corps (S. Africa), ESL
Teacher.
- Eric Goldsmith - (Chapel Hill, NC)
Fairhaven College. Archaeologist.
- Kelly Kikukawa - (Springfield, VA) Mary
Washington College. Educational
Services Institute.
- George Myers & Gibb Laytham - (Budapest,
Hungary) VCU & Guilford. English
teachers/musicians.
- Ed Lengel - (Arl.) GMU, UVa. PhD
candidate in History.
- Shaun Mohler - (Arl.) UVa, American Univ.
Attorney.
- Ellen Morris - (Arl.) GMU, GMU. Teacher
at Randolph Elementary.
- Keith McHugh - (Madison, WI) Baker,
Realtor, Marketing Asst. Currently
student.
- Class of 1987
- Suzy Boylan - (Missoula, MT) Hampshire,
Univ. of Montana. Attorney.
- Matthew Britton - (Santa Barbara, CA) MIT,
PhD in Astrophysics, U of CA.
Professor, Univ. of Melbourne,
Australia.
- Pat Carroll - (Cupertino, CA) UVa, English
teacher in Slovakia, MBA student.
- Matthew Cohen - (Arl.) Reed, UVa Med
School (3rd year)
- John Giuseppe - (Arl.) GWU. Naval
Aviator.
- Carolyn Fuqua - (D.C.) Univ. of Chicago,
UC-Berkeley. US Dept. of Education.
- Django Mulholland - (Arl.) JMU. Self-
employed painter (interior/exterior)
- Sean P. Sowards - (Irving, TX) UVa. Special
Agent, IRS Criminal Division.
- Adelle K. Verburg & Curt Dorman ('86) -
(Arl.) Univ. of Arizona, Univ of CO-
Boulder. Teaching in Arl..
- James E. Ward - (Stone Mountain, GA) GA
Institute of Tech. Arthur Andersen
- Tae H. Yi - (Fairfax) GMU Owner - Destiny
Comics.
- Brian Zottoli - (Cambodia) Univ. Michigan -
Ann Arbor.
- Class of 1988
- Pauline Arnold - (Falls Church, VA) GMU.
- Mira Awad - (McLean) NYU.
- Martha Bory - (Ashford, CT) Connecticut
College, Tufts. Asst. Director, Ctr. for
Int'l Business, Univ. of Connecticut.
- Jessica Britton - (Seattle) UC-Santa Cruz,
Univ. of Washington - Doctoral
Candidate in Molecular & Cellular
Biology.
- Zoe Burman - (Arl.) Wesleyan Univ. Film &
Video Dept. US Holocaust Museum,
Steven Spielburg Archive.
- Keith Brian Davis - (Arl.) Purdue, GWU.
Health Care.
- Jed Dennis - (Ewa Beach, HI) MIT, MIT.
Naval Officer onboard USS Topeka.
- Erik Endo - (Arl.) Vassar. English teacher in
Mexico.
- Carolyn Gell - (NYC) William & Mary,
Columbia. Social Worker.
- Tyler Richard Giannini - (Arl. & Thailand)
William & Mary, UVa. Environmental
Justice Attorney, Co-founder,
EarthRights Int'l.
- Geoffrey Kinsey - (Minneapolis, MN)
Savannah College of Art & Design. Art
Director.
- Todd Plitt - (NYC) Parsons. Freelance
Photojournalist, AP & The New York
Times.
- Adrian Ray Stewart - (Austin, TX) Univ. of
AZ, Univ. Houston, Univ. of TX. Air
Force intelligence (Korea). MFA-Fiction.
Impending law student.
- Mike White - (Missoula, MT) UVa, Univ. of
Montana. "Mad Scientist. Collecting
rugs and writing a few short stories, too.
Haven't killed anyone. My cat is getting
incredibly fat but I like her anyway."
- Class of 1989
- Maura Boruchow - (Arl.) Allegheny
College. Photo Editor.
- Marion R. Cake - (Arl.) Police Officer, Arl.
PD.
- Jennifer Carroll - (Arl.) Teacher's Assistant,
Drew Elementary.
- Jim Coursey - (San Francisco) Oberlin.
"Independent Contractor - Computer
Svcs. (that means I'm a temp)"
- Jonathan Davidson Field - (Arl.) UVa.
Project Manager, D&M; General
Contracting.
- Jennifer Hale - (Phoenix) Catawba College.
Worked in microbiology in Atlanta, at
H-B Woodlawn and just moved to
Arizona.
- Jason C. Hicks - (Mattoon, IL) Cornell.
Engineer@General Electric.
- Teresa Mallon - (Arl.) WVU. Works with
husband as personal fitness trainers at
One to One Fitness Center.
- Kellita (Kelly) Desir^�e Mangis - (Falls
Church) UVa. Teaching at American
University.
- Janet Michelotti - (Arl.) UVa, UVa. Won
Silver Medal with Virginia Crew at
Nationals in 1993.
- Michael P. Pershbacher - (Damascus) VA
Tech. Ocean Engineer.
- Catriona Rogers - (Somerville, MA) UVa,
UVa, MIT. PhD, Environmental
Engineering.
- Shona Simkin - (Seattle) Swarthmore.
Apprentice Midwife.
- A. Joey Skoloda - (Arl.) Mary Washington
College. MCI
- Kathryn Stambaugh - (W. Somerville, MA)
UVa. Working at Harborme, a support
& empowerment program for battered
women and their children.
- Elizabeth "Lisette" Voyatzis - (Arl.) UVa,
GWU. National Museum of American
History.
- Vanessa York - (Alexandria) VCU.
Working in Arts Conservation.
- Jennifer Haroutounian - (Miami) Univ. of
Cincinnati. Stage Actress: Antonia, Man
of La Mancha, Rapunzel - Rapunzel.
- Tamara Wexler - (Philadelphia) Princeton.
U. Penn Med. School (MD, PhD).
- Class of 1990
- Kristina Arnold - (Nashville) Brown.
Americorps Member at Vanderbilt.
"Yes, we ARE funded this year!"
- Ellen Jane Briggs - (Arl.) Hampshire ("H-B
Unleashed"). Preparing to study
Buddhist philosophy in India
(Dharamsala).
- Justin Connealy - (D.C.) GMU, GWU.
Environmental Division of US
Department of Justice.
- Christy Denslow - (Arl.) JMU, GMU.
Teacher, Fairfax Co. Schools.
- Gwyn Doland - (Albuquerque) Earlham
College. NTS Communications.
Joshua C. Freshley - (D.C.) William & Mary.
Accountant.
- Rex Hampton - (Arl.) UVa. KPMG Peat
Marwick Auditor.
- Dusty Horwitt - (Arl.) Brown. Reporter and
now in press office of U.S. Senator
Richard Durbin.
- Heather L. Kamens - (Charlotte, NC) Loyola
College (MD). Physicians Practice
magazine.
- Dominic A. Pisciotta - (Arl.) JMU. Plans to
open coffeehouse.
- William (Hoja) Zaza - (Arl.) NOVA, Mary
Washington. Name change "after
converting to Eastern Orthodox church
... to reflect National Heritage and
Political Conventions."
- Ann Zottoli - (Hiroshima, Japan) Haverford
College. Teaching English.
- Class of 1991
- Jane Arnold - (Los Angeles) Northwestern
Univ. Publicity @ Castle Rock
Entertainment.
- Dorothy Ballentine - (Arl.) Rice Univ.,
Houston.
- Rebecca (Becky) Berry - (St. Louis) MIT,
Washington Univ. Architect.
- Sara Boylan - (Spokane, WA) Williamette
Univ., Oregon. Counselor for kids.
- Emma Churchman - (D.C.) Earlham.
Fannie Mae Mortgage Assoc.
- Christina Dolvin - (Breckenridge, CO) UVa.
Snowboard Instructor.
- Emily Field - (Arl.) GMU. Currently at
Georgetown Law School.
- Ana Kleymeyer - (^]Quito, Ecuador)
Wesleyan. Works at "Fundacion Futuro
Latinoamericano."
- Laura Pottmeyer - (Arl.) NC State.
Substitute Teacher.
- Andrew Soles - (Guatemala) Mary
Washington. Peace Corps.
- Shakti Prakriti Shukla - (Arl.) Georgetown
Univ. Plan to travel to India, Prague,
attend business school in California.
- Class of 1992
- Elizabeth Albro - (Arl.) UVa.
- Ben Bailes - (Arl.) Vassar. "In the winter of
1994, I became a "tunneler" and went to
live in the depths ... breeding moles &
earthworms."
- Brigid Ganley - (Arl.) UVa.
- Kathleen Clare Gilpin - (Philadelphia) Rice
Univ., Houston. Anderson Consulting.
- Bronwen Per-Lee - (Arl.) Wesleyan.
- Kasey Rowlan - (Arl.) Insurance Agent.
- Jennifer Settle - (Richmond) Univ. of
Richmond. "Moving to Hawaii to study
Mt. Kilauea for the U.S. Geological
Survey.
- Maria Bartlett - (Arl.) William&Mary.;
- Alexandra Mazzella - (D.C.) Georgetown.
The Washington Times Book Review.
- Chris Rea - (Arl.) VA Tech.
- Chandra Williams - (Arl.) UVa.
- Virginia Wang - (Arl.) Tufts Univ.
- Class of 1993
- Carey J. Bell - (Westminster, CO) VCU.
Skiing and snowboarding.
- Geoffrey Boyle - (Shreveport, LA) USAF
Electronics Specialist.
- Sarah (Sally) Clarke - (Arl.) JMU.
- Sarah Hall - (Arl.) William&Mary.;
- Alison Bory - (Arl.) Mount Holyoke
College. Studying dance in London.
- Heather C. Ingram - (Woodbridge)
Haverford College.
- Rena Levin - (St. Paul) Macalaster College.
- Lisa Roschke - (Arl.) Kalamazoo College,
Michigan.
- Class of 1994
- Ann Linscott Barbour - (Bryn Mawr)
Harcum College.
- Jeanne Bott - (Arl.) JMU. Social Work.
- Matthew Carter - (Arl.) Dartmouth.
- Leora Cohen-McKeon - (Arl.) Swarthmore
College.
- Franklin Grigsby - (Arl.) Harvey Mudd
College.
- Margaret (Margo) D. Harbaugh -
(Cambridge, MA) MIT.
- Sara Henkin - (Arl.) Mount Holyoke.
- Jena Kotler - (Arl.) UVa.
- Mitch Kramer - (Arl.) UVa.
- Lindsay McBride - (Arl.) Grinnell College,
Iowa.
- Sarah L. Mehliner - (Arl.) Stanford.
- Jessy Needham - (Richmond, IN) Earlham.
- Todd White - (Arl.) US Navy, working on
BBA.
- Becky Wolfinger - (Oberlin, OH) Oberlin. "I
have become devastatingly interesting,
with a vast potential for moral
indignation."
- Class of 1995
- Warren Overholt - (Northfield, MN) Carleton