Eagles Eye 2019 including the 2018/2019 Annual Report

1995
BENN GANN
In April, Ben changed jobs and joined
the American Chemistry Council as a
Director in the Chemical Products and
Technology Division in its Washington,
D.C. office. In addition, he is now
engaged and plans to marry his fiancé
Courtney O’Keefe next summer.
1999
1 | BRAD STINSON
Brad and his family just bought a house!
He also started his Culture & Leadership
Consulting Firm four years ago, during
which his family sacrificed in ordered
for him to follow his purpose and grow
the business. The Lord has been so
faithful in leading their lives these past
four years and they have so many stories
of God showing up in their lives. They
are humble and grateful for this season.
Ephesians 3:20
2 | ELIZABETH (BETSY) CROSWELL
It has been such a busy year cheering on
the CHCA Eagles and Betsy’s 9-year-old
son, Hunter, through football, basketball,
and lacrosse. She looks forward to
watching the 4th grade boys bring home
another undefeated football season! Go
Eagles!
2000
3 |SARA MOORE WAGNER
Sara recently won a Sustainable Arts
Foundation Award for her poetry. This
award is given to support artists annually,
and she was chosen from a pool of 1100
applicants! You can read about it here:
http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.
org/awardees/, or on her website here:
www.saramoorewagner.com, where she
has posted other recent publications
and award news.
2001
4 | KARA BUCZEK
Kara has found a new passion -
performing flying trapeze with the circus
in Seattle. She trains with some of the
best professionals in the business at
Emerald City Trapeze Arts.
2002
5 | ERIN TATE SCHMERR
Erin (Tate) Schmerr married Daniel
Schmerr in 2011. They welcomed their
first child, Adela, on June 21, 2017. In
October of 2018, they opened Sonder
Brewing (located in Mason, Ohio) with
three other families. Sonder is a 30
barrel brew house in a 19,000 square
foot building located on 6.5 acres near
Procter & Gamble.
2003
6 | DENIS BEAUSEJOUR
Robynne and Denis are living in
Hoffman Estates, a suburb of Chicago.
They have two boys: Den (2.5) and
Julien (8 mo). Denis left FedEx about
three years ago and has been working
for O.C. Tanner. Robynne is a special ed
teacher at Barrington but is taking an
extended maternity leave to be home
with the kids. They try to make it back to
Cincy as often as they can!
2004
7 | SAL CHURI
This year, Salen moved down to Austin,
Texas to launch a venture capital fund,
Trust Ventures, which invests in startups
in heavily regulated industries, and
married his now-wife Lauren.
JOSH BAKER
Josh lives in Indianapolis with his wife
and daughter. After cooking in several
restaurants around Indy, he now runs
the kitchen at the newly opened Jailbird.
He loves making cooking fun again.
When he’s not working seven days a
week, he likes to fish and go hiking with
his wife.
2005
LAUREN DAVIES JESTER
Back in 2015, Lauren decided to
pursue one of her dreams to become
an entrepreneur. She chose to open
up a Smoothie King location, which is
a concept she fell in love with when
she worked at a Cincinnati location
while attending CHCA. She’s been
very blessed with success at her store,
but the greatest blessing it brought
her was being the place where she
met her husband Josh in 2016. Josh is
a Lieutenant on the fire department
in their local community in Granger,
IN. Things haven’t slowed down since
then and she wouldn’t change a thing.
They were married in ‘17, blessed with
triplets in ‘18, and just built a new forever
home in ‘19. Also this year Lauren was
honored to be named a member of the
Smoothie King King’s Club, being in the
top 10% of gross sales nationwide.
2006
ALUMNI NOTES
8 | SARA DURHAM NELSON
Sara and her fiancé Paul wed on
September 1, 2019 in Louisville, KY.
They have a lovely shotgun home in
Louisville’s Germantown neighborhood.
They adopted their sweet puppy Elouise
last August from a shelter and she
recently celebrated her first birthday.
Sara is celebrating two years working
with Humana Military this July and
recently received a promotion to Senior
Communications Professional. She is a
Mentor with the Big Brothers Big Sisters
School-To-Work Program. She is also
the Volunteer Coordinator for Dancing
Well: The Soldier Project, a non-profit
organization that brings the healing
power of music, dance and community
to veterans and loved ones suffering
from Post Traumatic Stress or Traumatic
Brain Injury. She also volunteers on
various committees within Humana,
including SALUTE!, the veterans
network resource group, and the Metro
United Way and Fund for the Arts
associate fundraising campaigns.
She and Paul are members of
Tomorrow’s Leaders, the National
Young Professionals Organization for
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Sara was
recently selected to be the “voice” of
Humana Military’s new IVR (Interactive
Voice Response) phone system and
started a podcast with a fellow associate,
called “Humana Military Roll Call”. It’s
a short-form informational podcast for
Humana’s internal radio station. Their
goal is to help provide awareness and
education around Humana Military to
the larger Humana associate population.
9 | JAMIE HUXTABLE SWIGERT
Jamie is involved in the women’s
ministry leadership team at LifeHouse
Church in Lebanon, OH. Their goal is to
connect all women to other women in
the church, through Christ. She enjoys
volunteering at both her church & at
Camp Chautauqua in Miamisburg where
her husband is the Executive Director
(and leads CHCA‘s faculty and staff
retreat!). Their son is in Kindergarten
this fall & their daughter is in pre-school.
Her oldest step son got married in
March & her other other step son is
going into the US Navy! They like to
spend lots of time at the park, pool, or
exploring new places! God has richly
blessed them and they are so thankful!
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