Class Notes

Bryce Bagley, EN18, EN18, in spring 2021 earned a master’s degree in biophysics from Stanford University and started a medical degree program at the university in August.

Cary Cheng, BU17, was selected from more than 1,000 applicants to join Georgetown University’s master of science in foreign service (MSFS) program in fall 2021 as part of a MSFS/JD dual degree. The focus of the MSFS program is “to prepare women and men to be creative leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors of international affairs.”

Caitlin Rankin, GR16, GR20, a geoarchae-ologist, was spotlighted in the November/December 2021 issue of National Geographic for her excavation work at the Cahokia Mounds site in southern Illinois. Her work provided new insight into why the mounds declined and were deserted.

Casey Breese, LW16, joined Lathrop GPM as an associate in the firm’s Denver office in the trusts and estates litigation practice area. Previously, Breese was with Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley.

Connor Vilenio, LA14, is a machine learning infrastructure engineer with Overjet, an AI startup using computer vision and data science to transform dentistry. Vilenio and his wife, who started dental school last summer, live in Indianapolis.

Adrienne Strong, GR13, GR17, won the Society for Medical Anthropology’s 2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, October 2020).

Marissa Barnathan, LA12, is pursuing a master’s degree in fine arts in the directing program at Arizona State University. She has performed in plays and musicals throughout her life and has served as a director, assistant director, choreographer and performer in a variety of shows.

Christian Clerc, GA11, GA11 (architecture and urban design), is chief of data and design innovation at McMahon Group, a St. Louis consulting firm serving private clubs in all aspects of their planning, clubhouse, golf and membership needs. Clerc, who joined McMahon Group in 2015, assists communities with strategic and facility planning, gathering input from all constituencies and then creating plans that balance interests, opinions and constraints.

William Beggs IV, LA11, was promoted to vendor manager at Jones Lang LaSalle for Bank of America in June. He manages outsourced cleaning and janitorial vendor performance and leads special initiatives that have cleaning and janitorial impact, such as return-to-office activities and sustainability for the client’s 47.8 million square feet of real estate.

Betty Bayer (Elizabeth Jane Gibson), LA11, opened Betty’s Books in Webster Groves, Mo., in October. The bookstore offers comics, graphic novels, children’s literature,  Japanese manga and more in a family-friendly, welcoming environment.