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
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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