2012 Graduates Celebrate Their Five-Year Reunion.
Half a decade after graduating from Cary Academy, nearly 30 Chargers from the Class of 2012 reunited at Raleigh Brewing Company to catch up, reminisce, laugh, and play some pub games this past December (2017).
The Class of 2007: Reunited 10 years later
Back in August 2017, a few ‘07 alums got together at Raleigh’s Carolina Ale House to celebrate the 10 years it’s been since walking across the CA graduation stage.
2003
Jeremy Allen ‘03 and Kat Gosney ‘05 welcomed
their second daughter, Lilah, over the summer. She was eight pounds, eight ounces at birth and loves her big sister, Emerson.
2007
Mandy (Stein) Blackett married Dr. William Blackett
in New York on September 9, 2017. Fellow CA alum and dear friend Michelle (LeFort) Powers ‘07 attended the wedding. Mandy and Will live in New York City where Mandy is an attorney in the Corporate department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Will is completing his residency in internal medicine at Columbia.
Tenny (Crawford) Kilmore has been selling multi-million dollar homes to her celebrity clientele in the Los Angeles area and is one of the youngest luxury estates directors at Hilton & Hyland. She was recently nominated as a “Dynamic Woman of LA” by Angeleno magazine. In the wake of the hurricane disasters, Tenny and a team of Malibu veterinarians launched a disaster-relief charity to help disaster-stricken area dogs and cats survive their tragic situations.
Tom Marty proposed to his girlfriend of two years, Megumi, in September. Tom and Megumi plan to be married in spring 2019, with the ceremony taking place in Tokyo, Japan.
2008
Elizabeth Grace Atkins and Felipe Barros Lima are engaged! They both work at law firms in New York City and live in Brooklyn. Elizabeth and Felipe look forward to celebrating their wedding with family and friends next year in Durham.
Melissa (Hillman) Johnson got married in June 2017. Her maid of honor was Marina Lee, whom she met on her first day at Cary Academy in 2005.
Michelle Luo and Atanas Petkov were married October 7, 2017, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Several fellow Cary Academy 2008 alumni were in attendance, including Rachel (Park) Radnitzer, Diana Woodall, and Anna Morris. After their honeymoon in Mexico, Michelle and Atanas returned to South Florida, where Michelle works as a biotech scientist and Atanas works as a quantitative analyst for a hedge fund.
David Thorstad is spending the 2017– 2018 academic year visiting the philosophy departments at the London School of Economics and
the Australian National University, funded by a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard.
2009
Jonathan Jakubowski graduated from the UNC School of Law in May 2017 and passed the North Carolina Bar Exam in August. He is employed as an assistant district attorney in Judicial District 3A, which encompasses all of Pitt County, North Carolina. He resides in Greenville.
2010
Alex Hammer completed her Teach for America commitment in St. Louis and moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she works for IDEA Public Schools. She is the manager of the Healthy Kids Here program for the South Texas-based charter school network and works to increase students’ access to nutritious meals, physical activity, and health and wellness education. Alex also got engaged in March 2017. She and her fiancée will have their ceremony and reception in Raleigh in June 2018.
2012
Quinn Jenkins lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is a 2L at Emory Law School and a member of the Emory Law Journal. Last summer, she worked in the Legal Department of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. She is currently interning in the Legal Department of the American Cancer Society. She has accepted a job for next summer in Charlotte, North Carolina, at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP doing corporate/financial law.
Jessica Rowsey was officially sworn in November 2017 as a Durham Police Officer. The picture shows her being pinned by Police Chief C.J. Davis.
2013
Alex Velto has been nominated by Northeastern University for the Mitchell Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded based on academic excellence, consequential research, dedicated service to others, and an aspiration
to apply one’s prodigious talents and skills to improving our world.
2014
Elizabeth Hunt recently published her seventh book, which is her second picture book. Find out more about all of her books on her Amazon author page. Elizabeth has one semester left before graduating from UNC-Asheville with a degree in Biology and Greek and a minor in Creative Writing.
Michael Miller was accepted to NOAA Holling’s Class of 2016 for chemical research. The Award has included a scholarship for his final two years at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and
an internship at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington.