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1991 LaRinda (Utter) Chapin teaches art to children in grades 7-10; she also works as an artist and a mom. Corey Nelson was ordained and installed as associate pastor at Community Presbyterian Church in Clarendon Hills, Ill., in October 2005. Last year he was a keynote speaker at Montreat Youth Conferences, in North Carolina, and preacher for the Synod of the Sun College Connection. He will also be part of the music and worship team for the 2007 Presbyterian Youth Triennium.
1992 Kara Meissner is now the advancedplacement- institute secretary for the Bellevue School District, in Bellevue, Wash. Jean (Elliott) Hartwich is finishing the K-8 teaching certification she started at Whitworth. After years of running her own business, she is happy to be studying again.
1995 Sean Wescott's band, Boom! Rock Demolicious, and Sean himself (aka Gruvenheimer) have released a debut album, Fremont. Gruvenheimer is releasing two more albums and two dance mixes in the next few months. His music can be heard at clubs and dance parties around the world. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/ gruvenheimer.
1996 Tracy (Stephenson) Ekhardt, her husband, Bill, and their children have moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where she is a pediatric critical-care attending physician at Blank Children's Hospital. Following the birth of the Eckhardts' third child, Bill is taking a break from being a Presbyterian pastor and is a full-time stay-at-home dad. Lisa (Bartel) O'Donnell and her husband, Greg, moved to Ogden, Utah, with their children, Christian, Matraca and Elsa. Greg was transferred to Hill Air Force Base in his civilian position as an air-reserve technician, and Lisa is currently taking time off from work to stay at home with the children.
1997 Jennifer (Heaton) Tachell was appointed by the governor of Idaho to the Children at Risk Task Force and is currently the western region vice president of the Idaho School Counselors' Association. William Kaufold and his family are living in Columbia, Mo., where he is beginning his residency in ophthalmology. Elisabeth (Hatch) Clarke lives in Belfast, Ireland, where she met her husband, Paul. She runs Habitat for Humanity Ireland's Global Village Program. Matt Hilditch teaches middle-school mathematics and coaches basketball in the Renton School District, in Washington. His wife, Julian (Lorin, '99), has given up the fast-paced world of teaching kindergarten to be a stay-at-home mom. Courtney Yin-LaVoie and her husband, Mark, recently moved to the Las Vegas area, where she is happy to be a stay-at-home mom to their preschool daughter, Isabella. Joshua Bruns and his wife, Tammy (Werner, '96), have moved back to the Northwest after Joshua served as pastor of a church in Indiana for two-and-a-half years. He is now on the pastoral staff at Congregational Presbyterian Church, in Lewiston, Idaho. 1998 Sarah (Rice) Meister and her husband, Marcus, recently moved to Denver, where they purchased their first home. Jeff Davis is working for the Washington, D.C., Office of Planning.
1991 A boy, Benjamin Thomas, to Mary (Ressa) and Thomas Myers, Dec. 2
1994 A girl, Ramona Jane, to Ann (Brueggemeier) and Kevin Benson, '00, Jan. 21
1995 A girl, Ainsley Olivia, to Todd and Kirstin (Schmidt, '97) Orwig, April 20
1995 A boy, Gunnar Mayhew, to Heather (Rempel) and Ramsey Phipps, Dec. 21
1996 A girl, Elsa Mary Catherine, to Lisa (O'Donnell) and Greg Bartel, July 8, 2005
1996 A boy, Liam Thomas, to Tracy (Stephenson) and Bill Ekhardt, Dec. 14
1996 A boy, Elijah, to Elizabeth (Presti) and David McCalmont, April 10, 2006
1997 A boy, Korben James, to Jennifer (Heaton) and Eric Tachell, March 14, 2005
1997 A girl, Avery Renée, to Andy and April Mitchell, April 20
1997 A boy, Isaac William, to Andrea (Price) and Jerry Stogsdill, March 3, 2006
1997 A girl, Shiloh Keeton, to Matt and Julian (Lorin, '99) Hilditch, April 18, 2006
1998 A girl, Emma Catherine, to Christian and Julie Gunter, Aug. 7
1998 A girl, Jenna Mae, to Elizabeth (Slemp) and Keith Rawls, Nov. 2
1998 A girl, Rachel, to Scott and Andrea (Krogh, '99) Vander Ploeg, Sept. 12
1998 A boy, Jackson Leo, to Ruth (Kaluza) and Patrick Eichholtz, Nov. 10
1998 Twins, Andrew William and Emily Lenore, to Jeremy and Shannon Schossow, Sept. 18
1998 A girl, Ruby, to Glynis (Bathum) and Brad Morris, Dec. 12
1999 A girl, Elisabeth Anne Daehlin, to Nathan and Lindsay Daehlin Distelhorst,
Sept. 19
1999 A girl, Lauren, to Erik and Caitlin Sundin, Aug. 30
1999 A boy, Jakin Timothy, to Timothy and Elizabeth (Rodman) Haslet, Jan. 8
1999 A girl, Natalie Colette, to Tyler and Lydia (Jones, '00) Reid, May 26
1999 A girl, Serenity Marie, to David and Christin (Hinman) Saugen, Dec. 7
Sue (Packard) Hagman, '90, died Jan. 3. Following her graduation from Whitworth with a double major in business and computer science, she worked in corporate software and retail sales in Seattle. Her passion for music led her to sing in choirs at University Presbyterian Church. Hundreds of friends and family members shared in Sue's three-year battle with cancer via regular e-mail newsletters. Sue and her family established a scholarship endowment in her name at Whitworth that will support students whose lives have been touched by cancer. She is survived by her husband and three children. William McCormick, '90, died Nov. 4. In 1996, he began working as a long-haul trucker for several companies and at the time of his death was an independent trucker in Kentucky. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, his parents, two brothers, and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
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