Will Fow

 After graduating high school, I joined the Army and was a Medic for approximately 4 years until I received a BS from George Washington University. I was deployed to Iraq in 2005, and Afghanistan in 2007. When I got out, I worked at the United States Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases until 2009. I met my wife, Kay, in 2007 while on leave in Orlando. I now work for Florida Hospital and Nemours Children's Hospital as a medical technologist in Orlando.  We bought our first home a year ago this week and love it. We have three dogs, Rebel, Tank, and Diesel, and life has never been better.

(Will is not able to attend the reunion in June, but is happy to be able to, in a way, catch up with everyone via this blog. Thanks, Will!)

Kimberly (Corbett) Jeffares

After we graduated high school in 2003, I settled into Starkville, MS where I pursued my engineering degree at Mississippi State University! Love, love, love my Dawgs! Made some great friends and memories there! I met my husband (Bo Jeffares) during a FCA event. It was love at first sight. A year and a half later he proposed to me on a safari in Kenya. We got married in June 2007; and in December of 2007, I finished my degree in Mechanical Engineering.  After we graduated high school in 2003, I settled into Starkville, MS where I pursued my engineering degree at Mississippi State University! Love, love, love my dawgs! Made some great friends and memories there! I met my husband (Bo Jeffares) during a FCA event. It was love at first sight. A year and a half later he proposed to me on a safari in Kenya. We got married in June 2007; and in December of 2007, I finished my degree in Mechanical Engineering.

After 3 years of working in Starkville for a sales engineering firm, I decided to come work for my dad in Tupelo at Corbett, Legge and Associates. We design mechanical systems (HVAC and plumbing) for commercial buildings. I live in Starkville and commute to Tupelo every day.

Last April Bo and I were blessed with a little girl! Elizabeth “Lea” just turned one, and we are having a blast raising her. We also have a Godchild named Gladys Wangui in Limuru, Kenya that we support and visit as much as we can. I have a heart for Kenya and love going to visit!

I am also the children’s minister at our church in Columbus, MS. I love teaching and interacting with the kids! They teach me so much! A fellow classmate of ours, Jay Armstrong, is our worship leader. Small world! My husband is the pastor of the church, so that makes me a preacher’s wife… haha. Don’t know if I qualify, but God is good and His grace is enough! We are just normal (or should I say not so normal) people with the same problems everyone has trying to get through life and share God’s love. I’m still the same nerd from high school and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in June!

Lauren (Weeks) Reid

Life has been an awesome adventure since our 2003 graduation.  Looking back over the last ten years I'm reminded of my two years at ICC where I danced as an Indianette. I may have been a "dork in the band" but I loved every second of it.   After moving to Starkville to attend MSU I became a Bulldawg for life! It is truly one of my favorite places on earth--which is why I stayed in school an extra year. (Something like that at least) :)  Hail State!

Traveling became one of my passions. I have had amazing opportunities to visit to Germany, Switzerland, Australia, the Cook Islands and even lived in New Zealand for a period. I plan to keep adding to that list for as long as I can.

For the last 3 1/2 years I've been in Birmingham Alabama, where I met a crazy guy who wouldn't take no for an answer. Ian Reid and I just got married in Cozumel (destination wedding of course) and it was the best day of my life. Cliche-- yes, but it was!

On top of all that I also just started a new job with the Autism Society of Alabama as a Fundraising and Events Manager. 2013 has been a whirlwind and I can't wait to see what the next 10 years brings!

Mandi (Pittman) Barnett

I have definitely taken a different path than I ever thought I would after high school.  After graduation, I spent four semesters at ICC, one semester at Northeast, and one semester to just basically have fun (which included a short six week stay in Austin, TX).  Upon my last year at ICC, I met my future husband in Booneville, MS, where he was a fireman.  After a very short six months together, we got married in March 2006. In July of the same year we moved to Memphis, TN. 

In Memphis, I continued my education at University of Memphis.  I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in English and a minor in Legal Thought.  Although I had strong aspirations of attending law school after undergrad, my plans were changed for the better as my husband and I had our first child, Lucas, in September 2008 (a mere three weeks after my college graduation). I decided to become a teacher after my son turned one because I knew that it would allow me to be at home with him more than other careers.  Teaching students has definitely taught me something.  It has become my passion and my calling.  I taught in Memphis City Schools while I worked on my Master’s degree.  My husband and I had our second child, Hailey, two months after I received my Master of Arts in Teaching from University of Memphis. 

For the past year, my family and I have been living in Panama City Beach, FL.  However, we are in the process of moving back to Tennessee in order for me to continue my calling as a teacher in inner city Memphis.  I am also currently working to complete my Masters in English from Morehead State University.

All in all, I could not be happier with where I have ended up in life.  I am married to the most wonderful man and have been blessed with two amazing children.  I have a career that is incredibly fulfilling, and each day is filled with surprises. 

Sharon (Hall) Matulewicz

I cannot say I have anything grand or out of the ordinary to write about. I haven't won the lottery, invented the next big thing, or become famous in any way shape or form. I am lucky, however, to be able to say that I am married to my high school sweetheart, live in a place of grandeur beauty, make a living doing what I love, and above all else I am happy. 

After graduation, I completed a semester of college at ICC until I could decide what my next move in life would be. Many of you may remember my hockey playing yankee boyfriend, Tim, who came to Tupelo from Michigan. In 2004, I decided to continue college in Michigan at Northern Michigan University. NMU is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior (yea, don't worry, I also never paid much attention to the fact that an Upper Peninsula of Michigan existed until I met Tim). It took one visit to this place to know it would be a win win to move here. In my mind I assumed Tim and I would finish school and move somewhere in between our two families, but I utterly fell in love with this place - Winter and all (OK, in all fairness, loving winter took a few years...several years). I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Psychology and a Sociology minor in 2008. Directly out of college, I began working for the State of Michigan in Foster Care case management, and Child Protective Services.  After two years, I made the very difficult decision to leave the position and focus on doing something more uplifting for a living, which so happened to be something I loved. Photography. Night and day, but I now own my own photography business, and also work full-time for a larger company shooting school portraits (Yup! I'm that person you remember "Sit up nice and tall...BIG smile...Perfect!"). It has been utterly refreshing to make kids smile on a daily basis, rather than seeing them shedding heart wrenching tears.

Tim and I were married in August of 2010. We purchased our first home a few months prior to our wedding, and it still keeps us busy as we renovate and continue to make it our own. Tim is a Packaging/Process and Manufacturing Engineer for a company that manufactures medical devices for worldwide distribution. This past year we celebrated 10 years together, and our second year of marriage. We do not yet have children, as we are still far too selfish with our free-time, and can fully admit that lol.  But, we do have a kickass German Shorthaired Pointer who is my shadow and our pride and joy! She lets me do things like this to her for work :)   I am excited to see everyone, and to roam around my hometown after so many years of being away!