Search the database below for class notes, births, memoriams and marriages reported by your classmates. All online information is posted for one year from the date the information is received. If no selections are made to narrow the class year or information type, all information from the last year will be shown alphabetically by last name of alumni.
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Class of 2002
married Ellen Hesse of Lafayette, LA on April 6, 2013. Beginning the Fall Semester of 2013, Brandon is Visiting Faculty at Indiana University’s Institute of Folklore and Ethnomusicology where he is teaching courses in folkloristics, the body, and popular musics
Class of 2002
Dr. K. Brandon Barker published his first book, Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception (Indiana University Press, 2019). He also recently moved to the position of Assistant Professor of Folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Class of 2002
received an honor for her work as Resident Services Employee of the Year at Home Forward (formerly the Housing Authority of Portland, OR). Sarah has been a Resident and Community Services Coordinator for 4 1/2 years, serving low-income public housing residents in Multnomah County, Oregon. Sarah and her husband, Jesús, and daughter Aurelia (3) also got the joy of traveling to visit Jesús’ family and celebrate 10 years of marriage in Merida, Venezuela in January of 2015. Sarah and Jesus met in Merida in September 2002, when Sarah accompanied Jamey Cook (MC class of 2004) as a Mobility Assistant on her study abroad experience. It was a wonderful experience to go back and be able to introduce the next generation to the culture and people Sarah and Jamey came to love 13 years ago!
Class of 2002
Prospect Elementary teacher Heather Byrd ’02 will become the assistant principal at Eagleton Elementary School. She succeeds Chad Tipton, who was named principal at Rockford Elementary last month. A graduate of Heritage High School, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Maryville College, and master’s and education specialist’s degrees from Tennessee Technological University. Byrd currently is working on her doctorate. She just completed her 15th year in education, nine as an elementary school teacher. Byrd taught for eight years in Murray County, Ga., and the past school year was a second-grade teacher at Prospect Elementary. In between, she was an elementary instructional coach for five years and an English language arts coordinator in Bradley County before she and her husband decided to move back home to Blount County.
Class of 2002
Jason Day was selected as a member of Apple Distinguished Educator class for 2017. Since 1994, Apple has selected 820 individuals from the Americas. The program recognized educators that are using Apple technology to transform teaching and learning.
Class of 2002
Writes in to share he was inducted into the Apple Distinguished Educator program with the 2017 class. This program was started by Apple in 1994 and currently has 820 individuals from the Americas and 2133 individuals globally that have received this distinction. More about the program can be found by visiting
Class of 2002
Jason J. Day ’02 was recognized by the University of Cincinnati Provost Office at the 2017-18 Faculty Awards with the eLearning Program of the Year award as being part of the iPad Implementation Team in the UC Athletics Program. Additionally, he was accepted into the MSIS Program at the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business.
Class of 2002
Writes in to share that he graduated from the University of Cincinnati – Carl H. Lindner College of Business with a Master of Science in Information Systems on April 27, 2023.
Class of 2002
After 12 years as an employee of a large firm, in April she opened her own financial advisory office in Montevallo, Alabama.
Class of 2002
Currently lives in a Washington DC suburb and teach AP World and sociology at Sherwood High School. He coaches the girls varsity soccer at Northwest High School making it to the elite 8 in the 4A Maryland state tournament the last two consecutive years.
Class of 2002
On August 29, 2013 of The Bard coffee house fame, was interviewed on Montana Public Radio today about his new book on “Montana Beer: a guide to breweries in Big Sky country”. He covers cultural legacies, economic impacts, environmental best practices in a state that is first in beer jobs/population.
Class of 2002
Joshua Noah graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in May 2015 with both his Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Christian Education degrees. He was ordained as a Teaching Elder in the PCUSA on July 18, 2015 by the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy and currently serves as solo pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Crystal City, MO – outside of St. Louis.
Class of 2002
Rev. Joshua Noah was recently called to serve as the part-time pastor of Open Table United Church of Christ and also the part-time Campus Minister for UKirk South Alabama, in Mobile, AL. He and his partner, Lawrence Leto, live in Gulf Shores and enjoy spending time at the beach.
Class of 2002
Recently named new William Blount Athletic Director. After MC he went on to earn his Masters in Curriculum and Instruction and an EdS at Lincoln Memorial. The first semester will be the most challenging for Ridge as he balances his new assistant principal duties with athletic director as well as head football coach.
Class of 2002
David started a job as Curriculum Coordinator at the Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio.
Class of 2002
of Houston, Texas, graduated with a Master of Divinity and the Master of Arts degrees at Princeton Theological Seminary’s 203rd commencement ceremony, held on Saturday, May 23, 2015. The Master of Divinity is a three-year graduate degree that is the basic professional degree for ministry. The Master of Arts in education is the basic professional degree for Christian educators. The Seminary awarded a total of 169 degrees at the Commencement Exercises. About Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary, founded in 1812, is the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Its mission is to educate leaders for the church of Jesus Christ worldwide, and its more than 500 students and 11,000 graduates from all fifty states and many nations around the world serve Christ in churches, school and universities, healthcare institutions, nonprofit agencies, initiatives for social justice, mission agencies, and the emerging ministries of the church in the twenty-first century.
