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CLASS NOTES 1958 Mary Jeanne Ebert Buckley became a great-grandmother for the first time in June. She has 12 grandchildren and hopes to have many more great-grandchildren. Mary Jeanne and her husband, Charles, live in Naples, Fla., and she writes that the Florida sun agrees with her but the Baltimore breeze is better. consultant as well as bookkeeper and Chair of the Board of Directors. Leslie is looking forward to spending more time with her grandchildren and completing some of the items on her wish list. (certified specialist in estate planning) and the CDFA designation (certified divorce financial analyst). 1981 Maggie Kelly Carroll is working at The Ivy Hotel, a luxury boutique hotel that opened in June 2015 in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore. Lisa Reynolds Allen has joined the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage powered by Zip team that is located in Woodbridge, Va. 1963 1986 In Sept. 2015 Carolee Martelle ’63 ’89 ’97 traveled to Southern Africa and one of the places visited was the Chinotimba Government School in Zimbabwe. She brought the children and teachers school supplies and snacks, which are in short supply there, and learned that the school has a computer room and the students receive computer training for one hour each week. Back in Sept. 2014 Carolee journeyed to China and was able to travel to Tibet where she visited the Jokhang Temple (dating back to 700 A.D.) in Lhasa. She writes that independent travel to Tibet is not permitted and is only allowed with a special visa as part of an organized or cultural group. In Feb. 2015 Dawn MacKenzie-Stefanik ’86 ’95 was asked to take part in the American Society of Clinical Oncology Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference in Yangon, Myanmar. She was the only nurse invited to speak along with the physicians at the conference. She was there for 13 days with the first week spent educating and lecturing to staff as well as consulting and making recommendations for practice changes. The last few days were spent sightseeing. Dawn is the Clinical Manager of Infusion Therapy and Infusion Pharmacy at the Cancer Center at GBMC. 1988 After 38 years of public service, Anne Tayloe Hauswald ’88 ’92 retired from the federal government in December 2014 and writes that “life is wonderful.” 1991 1975 In 1990, Leslie Lehrl Fowler founded a local nonprofit organization, currently called Arts On Stage, Ltd., that presents professional children’s theatre. In July 2015, after 25 years of running the organization, she semiretired but remains involved by acting as a Melanie Covahey Hagan was promoted to Partner at Berman McAleer, Inc., an independent financial advisory and wealth management firm in Timonium, Md. She was also named Director of Client Services, a role that ensures clients receive the service, attention and solutions they demand from the private wealth management firm. Melanie joined the company in 2006 and was a Vice President prior to being promoted. She has more than 24 years in high-level client service positions with financial institutions. 1992 Mike Mandish ’92 ’93 is a principal at Santos, Postal & Company, a certified public accounting firm located in Rockville, Md. Mike also holds the CSEP designation Alumni, we want to hear what you’ve been doing! Please send us your news and photos on personal and professional achievements, marriage, family, travel, and memories of your time at VJC/SU. Submit your news and photos via mail to Alumni Notes, Stevenson University, Attn: Carolyn Douglas, 1525 Greenspring Valley Rd., Stevenson, MD 21153-0641; via e-mail to [email protected]; or submit them online at apps.stevenson.edu/forms/alumni/classnotes.cfm. 20 | VENTURES/SUMMER 2016 1996 1998 Melinda Myers Hinsley is the President of Hinsley Collective, LLC, a marketing consulting and professional staff development organization established in 2014 and based in Marriottsville, Md. She holds the certified professional services marketer (CPSM) designation. Irina Koyfman, RN is the Director of Transitional Care at Maxim Healthcare Services where she helped to develop new and innovative transitional care programs for the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in an effort to decrease hospital readmissions. She has 15 years nursing experience and 10 years executive experience, is a certified adult nurse practitioner, and is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Dan Soderberg recently wrote and published a book with his nine-year-old son, Greyson, entitled Elevator Jones: Volume 1 and is working on Volume 2. 1999 Michael Alessi, Jr. was promoted to Vice President and Director of Client Serv