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4 5 6 7 2003 Rebecca Henning ’03 returned to St. Francis Catholic High School to teach Dance. After graduating St. Francis she attended CSU Sacramento where she earned Masters degrees in English and Theater Arts. She spent eight years teaching Dance and Physical Education courses in the Los Rios Community College District and choreographed theatrical productions for Cosumnes River College and Folsom Lake College. Rebecca also taught Dance at many local studios including Hawkins School of Performing Arts, Dance 10, El Dorado Dance Academy, Ovations and led master workshops for California Dance and Movement. Her interests include teaching barre classes at The Dailey Method Folsom and spending time with my husband, Kristian, and her shar pei-lab, Josie. 4 2004 Stacey Stoddard Burkett ’04 started her circus career in 2009 at the Gravity Arts, training under renowned aerialist TT Robson. Stacey has trained locally in Santa Cruz, as well as at Kinetic Arts in Oakland. While silks has always been her first love, she has also performed some rope, and two years ago, added hand balancing and partner acrobatics to her repertoire. Stacey was a part of Acro5, an all female circus troupe, in 2015, and as a part of the group, performed in last year’s Santa Cruz Dance Week, and assistant-produced and performed in a fulllength professional aerial and acrobatic show called Luminance. Stacey recently began teaching Beginner Aerial and Acrobatics at Radical Movement Factory in Santa Cruz. She hopes to continue her career in the air with more professional performances in the future, as well as continuing to share her passion through teaching. 5 2011 Angelica Whaley ’11 graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California in May 2015 with a degree in Music: Vocal Performance. She attended Saint Mary’s on a voice scholarship, the first recipient in the school’s history. She had the incredible opportunity to sing at very prestigious events all around the Bay Area as an ambassador to the school as well as travel the world performing with the choirs. Angelica spent a summer in Germany in an intensive opera program. Last April, she sang in Carnegie Hall with the choirs as a featured soloist. She is temporarily living and working in Sacramento right now, doing a lot of performing in Northern California for private events. 6 2015 Annie Randle ’15 is performing in Legally Blonde at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She plays a few parts including Elle’s mom and the sales girl. She also auditioned and won the role as the Anchor of the Vanderbilt TV station, V-TV. She anchors the school TV station on their weekly broadcasts. 7   Spring 2016  25