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Class Notes

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Jared McDaniel
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Jared McDaniel ’08

pictured with his wife Ashley and family, has worked at the Department of Corrections for 4 years in February.

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Andy Tinsley ’08

recently became the chief of security for City Water, Light & Power. He served the Springfield Police Dept for seven years.

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Sami Martin
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Sami Martin ’06

is an administrative assistant and case manager at the Law Firm of Tamara Roff, an education services law firm in New York City.

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Maggie Henry York ’06

launched a new interior design website at margaretofyork.com. The site features York’s design portfolio from her several years working professionally in the field and a blog. Visitors can also shop a collection of her favorite pieces.

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Lisa Orr-Taylor ’06

is vice president at family business Perma-Bound Books in South Jacksonville. She has been married since 2009 and has four children.

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Daniel Morhardt ’06

is a social studies teacher for the Excel Center through MERS Goodwill.

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Ashley Kort Morhardt ’06

is working as an assistant professor of anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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Casey Grant ’06

has served as campus minister for The Crossing Monmouth church since October 2019.

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Marissa Giuffre ’06

earned her Master of Arts in Education from McKendree University in December 2018. She is currently employed as an elementary physical education teacher at C.A. Henning Elementary School in Troy.

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Sarah Franklin ’06

is exhibitions and collections manager at Elmhurst Art Museum.

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Cara Pratt-Fleming ’06

was named partner at Young Law Partners, P.C., a family law firm in Springfield.

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Tammy Lonergan Sowder ’02

was promoted to vice president of administration at Milner Media, where she oversees radio stations WVLI, WFAV, WIVR and WYUR.

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Amanda Williams ’01

is practicing immigration law at the award-winning non-profit Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. She previously spent a decade working in government law in St. Louis.

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Amanda Shoemaker ’01

has served as the director of alumni relations and continuing education at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry since 2018.

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Susann Minnick,

 January 2, 2020, Member of the Julian Monson Sturtevant Society.

In Memoriam
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George Blair Clark,

December 19, 2019. 

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Bill Piper ’00

earned his Doctor of Public Administration degree from the University of ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé-Springfield in July 2019. He is a revenue auditor for the ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé Department of Revenue.

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Martha Church H'03,

January 27, 2019. Martha Church was a lifelong champion of liberal arts education. She is remembered as an energetic world traveler who brought boundless energy, curiosity and compassion to her many endeavors. Church served as interim president for ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé during the 2002-2003 academic year. Beyond her work at IC, she enjoyed a distinguished career, most notably serving as the first female president of Hood College for 20 years, from 1975 to 1995, as chair of the board of trustees from 2006 to 2008, and being named trustee Emerita in 2009. Including ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé, ten institutions of higher education awarded her an honorary degree. Church was 88 when she died on Jan. 27, 2019.

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Roman Petra
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Roman Petra ’96

was elected to the partnership of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP., effective on Jan. 1, 2020. He concentrates his legal practice on commercial real estate transactions, representing developers and funds. He is based in Orlando, Florida.

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Will Lange,

 January 23, 2020.