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Class of 2005 Newsletter

Sonya Betz Horton	Sonya is working for the Cincinnati Public School System. Her son, Nolan Dennis turned 1 year old on May 11th.
Amber Carpenter	Update on 1-21-08: "I'm still living in Greenville at the moment and bought a house last March. I have recently decided to take a traveling position with HGI Healthcare and will start early March. I'm keeping my house, but it will be empty a lot of the time, so if anyone is interested in visiting Greenville (which is a lovely town I must say) let me know, because you'll have a place to stay. The best part about the new job is the girls (Stella and Luna) will get to go too (like I would go anywhere without them). Soon it will be my 2 year anniversary as a real OT. Crazy isn't it. I feel like I've already wiped my fair share of bottoms, but it's been worth every second. I've got a long list of places to visit with my new job, so hopefully I will see some of you around soon!"
Jennifer Doughman Thompson	Here is a pix from the wedding! Jennifer is working at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati. Her husband Drew has started working on his masters in OT degree and is on target to graduate in 2010. TWO OTs in the same household!
Beth Endres	Update on 08-25-09: Beth works for the Hamilton City School District, treating preschool through 6th grade. Beth married Rich Oloffson on July 25, 2009 and now lives in Maineville...just a few streets away from Sara Strain! Here is a picture of Beth and Rich's wedding.
Russ Garrison	Update on 11-11-09 Lindsay and I were married 10/28/06. I work for CCHMC at the Drake satellite. My caseload is outpatient rehab - some of the OT, PT and Speech at our satellite have created a niche known as the Outpatient Neuro Rehabilitation Team. I work along side Jen Thompson and we share Becky Rogers as our boss. Wesley Reed Garrison was born 10/2/09 and is absolutely amazing. We're living in Pleasant Ridge.
Scott Gould	update on 2-23-09: "I've moved to San Diego...... couldn't take the midwest winters anymore I guess. Anyways, I'm working inpatient/outpatient at a hospital called Kaiser Permanente. Its an HMO here in California and the #2 employer in the state behind government jobs. Hope all you guys are doing well. Take care."
Sara Highfield Strain	update on 12-8-11: Rylan Lucas Strain born 7:57am 12-4-11 7lbs 8ozs. 20in long. Sara works at Chesterwood Village in West Chester, with another Xavier grad, Patrick Mayes.
Erin Hill	Update on 2-24-11: Mike and I were married on May 15th, 2010. We still live in Springdale and are looking forward to the summer so we can go camping. After five years, I'm still working at University Hospital and I'm also the Clinical Fieldwork Coordinator. I love what I do - I manage all of our arrangements for fieldwork placement and get to work closely with each of our students. Our facility is currently going through a lot of positive changes as we transition to UC Health. I have great co-workers and we just hired 3 new XU grads so we are now fully staffed! Hope all is well!!
Amy Langhorn	works for Hamilton City School District.
Linda Martin	is working in a school system near Dayton.
Betsy Maly Hammersmith	update on 6-1-11: These are picture of Cora Hammersmith, who was born in January. Betsy is working for the Cincinnati Public Schools currently.
Katie Mattingly Bush	Update on 7-14-10: Ben and I were married on May 15....so I am now Katie Bush. U pdate on 12-10-07: "I have recently learned a new thing about the OT world...it is easy to find another job quickly if you need one. In my last update, I told you about my wonderful new job in pediatrics. Well, Nov. 9th they decided to close the pediatric division of the company because it was not profitable. So I was on the search for another job, and I have found a new home at Green Hill Therapy. www.greenhilltherapy.org. Next week will be the start of my third week there. I don't know if you have heard of Green Hill before, but they have PT, OT, and ST and all three disciplines do Hippotherapy. I am learning tons of new things and it is a lot of fun. In other news, I bought a house when I moved back to Louisville and I am loving being a home owner. It is right around the corner from my sister's house which is very fun and convenient. I also have my two dogs (Oscar and Chloe) who are pretty much perfect. Well, that's about it for me...I hope you are all healthy and happy. Send updates...I miss you guys!"
Mara Miller	is now in Romania working for the Peace Corps. She has a website where you can read her daily journal about life in Romania. Visit it at www.xanga.com/romanianfun .
Jane Oliver	sent this picture of her "little" girls on 10-15-07. update on 5-11-10: I am working for Greene County ESC now, still doing school-based. Linda and I are starting our own business slowly.
Kim Sanders Korth	Update on 9-22-11 Kim works at Denver Children's Hospital. "Things are going well right now for us!! I am continuing as the training coordinator for the feeding program here at Children's Hospital Colorado. I will also join our swallow disorders team here in the next month. I truly enjoy working with infants and children with feeding challenges. Here are some pictures from our wedding, as well as a recent pic from a trip to Europe this summer (The Little Mermaid in Denmark)." Kim and Josh were married in May 2009 "Josh is originally from Wisconsin (I managed to land a midwestern boy after all). We met here in Denver playing softball. He works for a company which sells the software that is put onto the smoke stacks of larger copporations to monitor the emissons they are putting out into the environment."