ClassNotes

Janelle (Martinez) Morgan '01 -- and her husband, Bodie -- welcomed baby #3, Noah Patrick, on 12/30/11. Older siblings -- Luke Tyler and Victoria Rose -- are in love with their baby brother!

Kevin McDonough '01 recently joined Atlanta-based Blue Giraffe Sports as its VP of Sales and Marketing. McDonough will be responsible for developing corporate partnerships for Blue Giraffe athletes, focusing primarily on their professional golfers.

Carrie (Lawler) McCullagh ’01 and Marc McCullagh '01, welcomed their third daughter, Catherine Anne, on July 20, 2012. Big sisters Anna (4) and Madeline (2) are excited to have another sister. The McCullaghs live in Portland.

Sean Magann MBA ’01 was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at Sims Recycling Solutions.

Magann joined the company in May 2011 and formerly held the position of commercial director, North America. Magann will be responsible for advancing all commercial activities for Sims Recycling Solutions in the United States, which includes leading both national and regional sales efforts. He will also manage marketing initiatives that favorably position the company’s services in the marketplace.

Christina (Tsiagkas) Keesler '01 and her husband, Nathan Keesler, welcomed their first child, Mariah Judith Keesler, Aug. 8, 2012. The family lives in Antioch, Calif.

Cathy (Miller) Justl '98, M.A. '01  and David Justl '99 live in Wisconsin and are pleased to announce the arrival of Katherine Yeon Emma Justl, born March 17, 2011, in Osan, South Korea, home forever on August 30, 2012. She joins big sister, Kiya, age 4.

Marisa (Borota) Hocking '01 and Zeke Hocking—Bryce David Hocking on May 21, 2012. He is adored by big sister Emma (2). The family reside in Chandler, Ariz.

Kimberly (Bush) Flowers ’01 and husband Claude welcomed their third child, John Michael "Mickey" Walden, on April 30, 2012. Mickey is adored by sister Clara Louise (born 9/2/08) and celebrated in Heaven by brother Theodore "Teddy" Charles Martin (d. 5/29/11). The family lives in Olympia, WA.

Jaime (Novotny) Allen '01 is the director of education at Humane Society Silicon Valley in Milpitas. She and husband, Ron, have no children but are filling their lives (naturally) with a multitude of pets. Minky, Bouncer, Miss Emily, and Munchkin complete their family. They live in San Jose.

Andrew Thompson '03 and Beth (Livingston) Thompson '02 welcomed their daughter Alice Eliza Joy on August 21, 2012. Alice joins big brothers Henry and Timothy. The family lives in San Jose.

Xiomara Vielman '02 and Jason Saldana '01 married May 18, 2012, in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. Friends who joined them were Mary Rodriguez Stavn '02, Sylvia Anguiano '02, Gloria Yu '02, and Sam Ritchey '01. The couple lives in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Kerrie Romanow MBA ’02 was named as San Jose's director of the environmental services department, which she has led for the past year as it oversees services for wastewater, drinking water, trash and recycling collection.

Romanow began her career in San Jose in 2006 as assistant director of environmental services, the second-highest position in the department. Before that she worked for Sunnyvale-based consulting firm Environmental and Occupational Risk Management Inc., Filtronic Solid State in Santa Clara and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

Michael Mooney ’02 was named to Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2012 "40 Under 40" list. Mooney is director of risk management and insurance at the Americas at Expeditors International and co-founder and vice president of ClimbOn.

Christine (Lupo) Montgomery '02 writes, "I received my Ph.D. in English from U.C. Santa Cruz in 2012 and now have a two-year postdoctoral position in the English department at my undergraduate university, Santa Clara."

Ramon Marquez III '02 and Nina Nejah '04, M.S. '07 were blessed with a beautifuly baby girl, Jasmine F. Marquez, on Dec. 11, 2012. Baby Jasmine weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and measured 20.5 inches. The Marquez Family continues to reside locally in San Jose.

Michael MacKinnon ’02 and Melissa Ebner on April 28, 2012, in Estes Park, Colo. The bride is the daughter of Cecilia Jensen and Norm Sheppard of Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada and Heinz Ebner and Holly Arnold of Boulder, Colo. She graduated from Boulder High School and attended the University of Colorado Boulder. She is employed as a nurse practitioner.

Paul Laurie '02 co-founded Walking Tree Travel, a summer Peace Corps–like program for teens that works in countries from China to Costa Rica, Senegal to Spain. Annually the company senda hundreds of teens to small villages to build schools, learn about local culture, and, most important, return to teach their friends about a world outside of the United States.