Reflections Magazine Issue #80 - Spring 2014 | Page 29

Alumni News—Class Notes 1995 Julie Goll was named the president and CEO of the Blissfield (Mich.) State Bank on March 1, 2014. She has worked at the bank since 1982, and was most recently its executive vice president and chief lending officer. Goll and her husband, David, reside in Blissfield Township. 2006 Alumni Lisa VanderPutten married Kevin Justusson June 1, 2013, in Detroit Mich. The bride is employed in media finance with Aegis Media in Detroit. After a honeymoon to Bora Bora, the couple resides in Keego Harbor, Mich. Sister Mary Frances Coleman, OP ’43 Sister Mary Dougherty, OP ’44 Connie Berube Binsfeld ’45 Rosemarie Van D’Elden Birman ’47 Frances Bork Nowakowski ’48 Sister Francesca Bartos, OP ’50 Sister Mary Anthony Marelli, OP ’53 Sister Catherine Henry Schmid, OP ’53 Sister Sean Therese Halpin, OP ’54 Josephine “Pat” Finn ’61 Sister Bernadette Vozobule, OP ’62 Sister Mary Eileen Sullivan, OP ’69 Janet Walter Klein ’70 Annette Herr Lerner ’74 Stephen Smallets ’76 Louis Wamsher III ’79 George Wagner II ’88 Carol Ann Forbes ’89 Donald Saul ’98 Linda Marutz ’99 Kathleen Tarr ’00 Randy Collier ’08 Dane Conyers ’13 2007 Friends 1998 LuAnn SawdeyRoberts earned the 2014 Carl J. Latona Distinguished Service Award for leadership and dedication at Highfields. She currently serves as director of Community Services at Highfields and was recognized for her integrity, passion to help others, perseverance and commitment to excellence. She oversees five counties and 10 programs as well as 40 staffers from the mental health and child welfare system in her current position. Sawdey-Roberts has been with Highfields since 2001. 1999 Kristin Baty Watts and her husband, Jay, announce the birth of a daughter, Colby, on Dec. 5, 2013. She is the couple’s first child. Kristin is employed as director of Admissions at Trinity School in Atlanta, Ga., where the family resides. 2003 Emily Gray Catrell authored her first book, “Meanmna: Book One of the Daearen Realms,” in January 2014. The digital book uses the Adrian and Irish Hills areas as a backdrop, and Gatrell said in an Adrian Daily Telegram news story that her love of the Adrian community and Siena Heights were the primary reasons. “Meanmna” is a Scottish Gaelic word for “spirit” and “courage.” Gatrell said the book combines a coming of age story and the paranormal. The book is a kickoff for a planned series of six. The book is available on Ama 齸