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Seattle Prep Alumni

Alain Enthoven ’48: Alain retired from teaching in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford in 2000, moving on to do consulting, lecturing, and writing for various journals. His main interest has been to reform health care in the US, and assure everyone affordable access to quality health care. He and his wife Rosemary are healthy and active in the Catholic community at Stanford!

Patrick Riley ’50: Patrick is in his “decade of gratitude”! Living in California, he takes courses in everything from Astronomy, Cosmology, Meteorology, and beyond. He’s enjoyed gardening, bird watching, zoom calls with his family, and gym workouts.

Tom Verd ’53: Tom lives in Camas, WA with his wife of 36 years, Teresa. He continues to volunteer for Catholic Community Services.

Clem Zipp ’72: Clem remembers helping seniors with their homework as a freshman, getting paid to type their papers for $0.40 per page. This was before the delete key! Cousin Tony Zipp ’69 helped with marketing, keeping an eye on his underclassman during Freshman Week.

Caroline (Dick) Gaynes ’78: Caroline and her husband David have been living in Los Angeles for 34 years and have two daughters. Their eldest is taking classes at Sarah Lawrence College, while their second is graduating high school. The family recently adopted a German Shephard-Belgian Malinois puppy!

Class of ’79 and ’80: Although limited to weekly Zoom calls, this group of ladies from the class of ’79 were not kept apart by the quarantine. Mo Hill ’80, Rose Cano ’79, Erin (Keyser) Norton ’79, Ceci Morales ’79, Karen Andersen ’79, Joni (Fields) Walters ’79, Anne (Siemion) Porter ’79, and Jeanna Theide met up again in Hansville, where they spotted an Orca pod passing by.

Jon Coney ’89 and Darren Stowell ’91: Thirty-two years after Jon Coney ’89 and Darren Stowell ’91 played varsity baseball at Prep, they ran into each other on a Little League diamond in Portland, Oregon. Coney is an umpire, and Stowell coaches his son’s All-Star team. “We didn’t recognize each other, but there was something familiar about him,” says Coney about Stowell. “Then I saw the name ‘Stowell’ on a player’s jersey and I asked the kid, ‘What’s your dad’s first name?’ When he said ‘Darren’ it clicked.” After the game, they re-hashed stories from Prep, including the time baseball Coach Ed Paulter got ejected for mouthing naughty words to an umpire. So being the squeaky-clean Capitol Hill boys that they still are, Coney and Stowell used only kind language in front of the kids. Stowell’s team went on to win the Oregon District 1 and State Tournaments. “Darren’s a solid coach. He teaches the kids good fundamentals,” says Coney. “But he’s scrappy like Coach Paulter, so I’ll keep a close eye on him next season.”

 

Shane O’Mahony ’94: Shane continues his work as a critical care physician in Seattle and has been very busy during the COVID pandemic. He was fortunate to be able to volunteer his time to provide critical care services in NYC when COVID numbers had subsided in Seattle. He is a proud dad to two teenagers and one five-year-old dog, Maggie.

 

Sarah (McCarthy) Jaffe ’04: Sarah recently released her book, Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World. She is currently a lifestyle writer for Romper, and has appeared in publications such as The Rumpus, Catapult, Slate, and Bklyner Magazine. Find her book on Amazon!

Kelly Ferron ’06: Kelly is probably the only Panther who has simultaneously visited the students and brought them on a field trip in the middle of the ocean! Via Zoom, AP Environmental Science students were brought aboard a NOAA ship known as the E/V Nautilus, where Ferron researches pollution in local marine ecosystems.

Kendra Morgan ’09: Congratulations to Kendra Morgan ’09, who gave birth to her second baby on June 2. Her first child Quincy is almost two years old!

Nicholas O’Hanlon ’10: Nicholas is now the author of two books, published online. In the White series, protagonist Tom must travel into the future in order to save the world. The adventure series includes everything from romance to comedy, with plenty of action. The book is available on white.selz.com.

Stephanie (Comstock) Ondorf ’12: Stephanie recently graduated from the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University and is now in Knoxville serving as a law clerk for Judge Katherine Crytzer of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Kimmy Taft ’13: Kimmy brought baby girl Ryleigh Marie Zukywich into the world in April 2022! Steve McHugh ’80 and wife Kristine were ecstatic to meet their granddaughter.

Stuart Fairchild ’14: Stuart is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball. He played college baseball at Wake Forest University. Stuart was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 2017 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2021. He also played for the Seattle Mariners and San Francisco Giants.

Class of 2015: What’s a better place to hang out with your classmates than a baseball game? Taariq Cruz-Vanegas, Peter Geivett and Ryan Wilson of the Class of 2015 reunited with each other, as well as the Mariners.

Class of ’16: Ryan Blair, Kyle Lydon, Jessica Cary, Patrick Bowers, Joe Chamberlin, Philip Vien, Brian Bowers, Michael Van Hare, John Ostrander, and Chase Stockwell all climbed to the summit of Mt. Rainier!

More from the Class of ’16: John Ostrander, Patrick Bowers, Chase Stockwell, Joe Chamberlin, Ryan Blair, and Alicia Bianchetto completed the Seattle Marathon side-by-side. Ostrander and Stockwell also completed a half Iron Man to raise money for Seattle Nativity School.

Class of 2018: Ethan McReynolds, Aden Hiatt, and Peyton McKenny graduated from Gonzaga University this year. Ethan graduated in Broadcast, Aden in Math, and Peyton in Nursing. Peyton will travel to Colorado Children’s Hospital for a residency program, and Ethan is going to Medford, Oregon to report and anchor for the local NBC affiliate.

Maya Ghali ’20, Cooper Klein ’20, and Lauren Day ’20: Maya (US Naval Academy), Cooper (US Military Academy), and Lauren (US Naval Academy) visited campus in November to advise students on their decisions after high school.

Class of 2020: Connor Riley, Nathan Smith and Walid Cruz-Vanegas were spotted together.

Isabel Becker ’21: Isabel was celebrating her 18th birthday on a boat with her fellow alums when she realized that the captain was a Panther too. Gary Cummings ’61 says he was proud of Isabel and her party, “She and her classmates are exactly what I would hope to see in a fellow Panther. This turn-of-events proved to me that the passage of time in a changing world has not reduced the quality of education and principles in its graduates.” Accompanying Isabel were her classmates Carly Condon, Eva Flanagan, Margaret Felton, Kate Allen, Ruby Humes, Cara Weigand, as well as Jackie Williams from Prep’s Class of ’20 and Molly Nagle from University Prep.


MARRIAGES

Caitlin Maguire ’06: Caitlin married Michael Young, and is now living in South Carolina.

Jenny (Biagi) Travis ’10: Jenny married Eric in Park City this past winter. Jenny went to law school at Gonzaga, where Eric was studying engineering. Their wedding date was exactly seven years after the day they met!

Sawyer Coleman ’11: Sawyer married his wife Maggie in Chicago after postponing the ceremony throughout the pandemic. Sawyer’s sister Brenna Fallon ’09 was a bridesmaid, Amani Teshome ’11 was the best man, and additional Panthers Nick Morton ’11, Blake Eastman ’09, and Connor Martin ’11 were also part of the wedding party. Joe Bosch ’11 officiated the wedding, and several past Prep parents were in attendance including Kathy Krueger and her husband Walt. Sawyer and Maggie now live in New Hampshire, where Sawyer is pursuing a MBA and Maggie is pursuing a MPH.

AnneMarie Ladlad ’12: In August 2021, after one year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and five years in New York, AnneMarie moved back to Seattle and married her husband Eleazar Teodoro at Seattle University’s St. Ignatius Chapel.

Katharine (Grimm) Wile ’13: Congratulations to Katharine (Grimm) Wile ’13 and her husband, who were married last August.

Dr. Kate Adler, DNP ’13 and Lt. Charlie Brennan, USN ’13: Kate and Charlie tied the knot on July 2 after an 11½ year courtship that began their sophomore year at Prep. They were surrounded by family and friends including many Seattle Prep alumni. Prep faculty member Chris Kiehn officiated. The couple now lives in Anacortes, Washington.

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