and Alan Grant Wilson, Jr., Nov. 13, 2021.
and Ryan Umberger welcomed a son, Atticus Michael, on Jan. 5, 2023.
graduated from a rigorous program at St. Louis University School of Medicine. He recently began his four-year residency at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, at Ft. Sam Houston as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corp.
Megan Zirkelbach '17
graduated from Lindenwood University with a Master of Business Administration.
Jeremy Briggs '04
started a new position as the controller at Nestle.
Christina Lappe Beck '04
was chosen from over 600 applications in the state to be awarded the Golden Apple in Teaching award.
Jason Paproth '03
was hired as an administrator by Racine Unified School District, in Racine Wisconsin, to serve as the eighth grade principal the the Academies of Racine Jerstad-Agerholm.
Samuel Welbourne '17
started a new position as warehouse manager at Dot Foods in Manchester, Tennessee.
Scott Stewart '02
started a new position as a senior director of operations at Nathan Wright Landscape Design.
Tamar Norville Walleser '16
is a solider and family readiness specialist for the Minnesota National Guard.
Lauren Mense Stutsman '16
started a new position as the assistant director of development at IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Amanda Jillyn Shoemaker '01
started a new position as director of advancement operations for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Drew Stroud '16
graduated from The University of New Orleans with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance.
Emily L. Smith '16
has been awarded team player of the quarter at Dell Technologies.
Adam R. Ford '00
started a new position as chief technology Officer at Zscaler.
Matthew Murphy '16
defended his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois with his dissertation in applying variance genome-wide association studies for identifying gene-by-environment interactions and accepted a postdoctoral research fellow position at the University of Arkansas and will serve as the statistical consultant for the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences.
Thomas Betsinger '97
was appointed as the new executive director of the Oswegoland Park Board of Commissioners.
Dr. Chris Becker '97
was promoted as the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction of Highland CUSD No. 5.
Debra McCormick Drake '92
started a new position as group head of corporate finance at Anglo American in London.
Daniel Lewis '16
started a new position as director of legislative affairs at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
Taylor Molandro Koskie '16
started a new position as senior implementation manager at Crafty.
Russell Miers '89
started a new position as senior project manager at Horace Mann.
Richard Meidel, Jr. '85
retired from Exxon Mobil after 32 years with the company.