Alumni Updates 1970s
Tracey Thatcher ’78 writes: Not a lot of news to report except that we are all well here in the Big Apple! My older son James is a junior in college, currently enjoying a semester abroad in Florence! Lucky guy. Our younger son Nathaniel is a junior at Regis High School, a boy’s Catholic school in the City. Soon we begin the college search for him. My husband Craig is working hard with no interest in retiring but I have retired! I worked with Craig for the last 13 years and decided in 2016 to call it quits. Sometimes I’m not sure what to do with myself though playing more tennis, which I love, volunteering at Regis and singing in a choral group helps. I am really looking forward to our 40th reunion. As I get older I miss Bermuda more and more and love coming home.
1990s
Alex Ratteray’s ‘93 12-year- old daughter Leia Ratteray- Drover has received a scholarship to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in New York City this summer, for a six-week session. Leia is currently a mid-associate at the Royal Ballet School in the UK, and in April she was accepted into The Academy of Balletic Arts in London. Leia is well on her way to achieving her ballet dreams!
Karen (Jones) Plianthos ‘99 recently held a Bald for My Birthday event on March 23rd . Pictured here from the class of ’99 are (left to right): Kelly Glazebrook, Rachel Fuhrtz, Kristine Cornish, Karen Plianthos, Melissa Simpson, Elizabeth Madeiros, Janika Roberts, Michelle Lightbourn, with Karen’s niece Elaine Jones and friends’ daughters, Layla Lightbourn and Stella Simpson pictured in front. Karen raised $8,346, and counting, to increase awareness and fund research for a cure to childhood cancer for Team Brennan Watkins. More news for Karen: she married Nic Plianthos in South Africa on April 6th. 2017. Below is a photo from their wedding day with fellow ’99 friends. “I am still so grateful that they travelled all that way - BHS friendships go the distance both literally and over the span of time!” (Left to right): Sophia Greaves, Samantha Edwards, Karen Plianthos, Michelle Howard, Emma Farge, Nadine Hendriks-Picalek. Karen also started her own business in June 2017, Bermuda Wine Concierge.
Clare O’Connor ‘99 was named the new Editorial Director of Bumble, a female-driven connection platform with over 26 million users worldwide. Clare has been a strong female advocate throughout her career, having most recently covered female entrepreneurship and workplace equality in the tech industry, for Forbes. She is excited to take on the role to help grow Bumble Media: “At a time when there’s a strong focus on the improvement of the status of women in every field, I’m delighted to take on this role.”
Annabelle Collins ‘94 recently qualified for the FEI 2018 World Equestrian Games to be held this September in North Carolina. Annabelle currently lives in Spain, where she and her husband run an equestrian training facility near Barcelona.
2000s
In November 2017, Adrienne Smith ’00 married Ian Lowe and they are now living back in Bermuda.
Rebecca Faulkenberry ‘01 worked on the 2018 Martin Scorcese film, “The Irishman”, playing Al Pacino’s daughter. Rebecca proves the adage that there is no substitute for hard work: “It’s still unbelievable that I could be working on a movie that Scorsese is directing, but then you have to stop and say, ‘I’ve worked hard and I deserve to be here’.”
26 Torchbearer Spring 2018
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