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Alumnae Updates 5 2000 Emily Baker Hurley ’00 proudly announces the birth of her beautiful baby girl Grace. She was born on April 4, 2016. Emily says “Grace lights up the whole world with her smile! She looks forward to being a Troubie, Class of 2034.” 8 2001 6 7 8 2007 Kate Mills ’07 finished eighth in the 400 IM (4:46.58) at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska on June 16. Mills swam at Harvard and is a 2011 graduate with a degree in Art History and Spanish. She is the school record holder in the 200 Butterfly and ranks in the top five in the 200 IM and 400 IM. On May 1, 2016, Sotiria Zografos Magby ’01 was surrounded by friends and family as she married the love of her life Ryan Magby. Sotiria said,“The setting couldn’t be any more beautiful. Former Troubie Volleyball player Dana Knudsen ’08 stopped The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco was such an amazing by campus and visited with the St. Francis volleyball coaches. She is currently working for Optimize Social Media after playplace, I felt like it was a fairy tale!” 9 ing professionally overseas. Dana with Volleyball coaches Bill Hanrahan, Taryn Wright ’06, and Alynn Wright. 12 In May, Hayley Higgins Figeroid ’05 received a promotion to the Examination Development Unit at the Contractors State License Board, where she oversees the development, statistical Hannah Naves Cooper ’09 was recently married to Andrew performance, and occupational analysis for a quarter of the 46 James Ramos Cooper on May 22, 2016. Hannah said her fondcontractor trade licensing exams for the State of California. In est memory from St. Francis was when she participated in choir, July, she and her husband (Stu, Jesuit ’04) bought their “forever AP US History and Kairos. These classes and activities helped home” near their parish, Our Lady of the Assumption, and shape who she is today. 13 moved in just after their fifth wedding anniversary. 2008 2005 2009 Anneliese Guess Humpert ’05 moved from Washington DC, to North Lake Tahoe. This summer she and her husband, Malte are converting a van into a camper van, which they will use to see the US. Mollie Van Parys ’05 volunteered last fall for two months on board the Africa Mercy in Madagascar. Mercy Ships provides free, life changing surgical procedures in areas where medical services are not accessible. Mollie will be returning to the ship March 2017. Some classmates from the Class of 2005, also known as The Pink Panthers, united at the wedding of Jen Seatris in June 2016. Sarah Simmons, Hilary Riehl Sherman, Taryn Kilmer, Kristen Jorgenson, Katie Sarro. 10 2010 Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 2014, Alexandra Chan ’10 was commissioned as an Ensign and assigned to the guided missile destroyer, USS O’Kane (DDG 77) out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After initial Division Officer training she was privileged to experience part of the O’Kane’s 2014 deployment to the Persian Gulf. She currently serves as the Strike Warfare officer, supervising the sailors who maintain and launch the Tomahawk missiles on the ship. Alexandra is also a member of the ship’s Visit, Board, Search and Seizure team, the group of individuals who board suspect vessels out at sea. She will be staying in Hawaii for the next couple of years and her next tour will be on the USS Hopper (DDG 70), as the Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer. 14 9 Do you work in the C-STEM Field? Are you an Alumna working in the Computing, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics industry? We are looking for C-STEM Alumnae to feature in a future issue of the Pax et Bonum magazine and we would love to feature YOU! Please email dcullo@stfrancishs. org for more details. Follow Us! Keep up with everything here at St. Francis. /SFHS.Sacramento   /SFHSTroubies   /sfhs_troubies 2006 Kelley Cohen Brown ’06 returned home to Sacramento after three years in Washington, D.C. as her husband completed law school. She recently graduated with an M.A. in education from St. Mary’s College of California and will continue her career in teaching. 2016 marks her 10 year anniversary of graduating from St. Francis Catholic High School as well as the 10 year anniversary of being cancer free. She thanks the SFHS community for their prayers and support during that time, and is happy to report a clean bill of health. 11 The Class of 2006 gathered for their 10th reunion on July 30th at Yolo Brewing Company in West Sacramento.   Winter 2016  59