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2009: Zack Dentmon* is planning to work and return to graduate school.  Emily Piscitello is starting graduate work at the University of Central Florida in higher education leadership.  Sarah Stoops is starting graduate work in mathematics education at Vanderbilt University.  Heather Manting is pursuing an MBA at Mercer and will be a graduate assistant in the athletics department.  Priya Desai works for a clothing retail company. 

2008: David Thomas* now works for the National Security Agency.  Aaron Kinard is attending the New Orleans Baptist Seminary. 

2007: Andrew Gainer* is in the Ph.D. program in Mathematics at Brandeis University.  Kimberly Conner is finishing the Master's program in mathematics education at Vanderbilt University; Kimberly was awarded a Knowles Foundation Mathematics Teaching Fellowship.  Jannae Carrick joined a consulting company as an actuary. 

2006:  Samson Alva* is in the Ph.D. program in Economics at Boston College.  Ruchie Vora works in marketing and sales for the Jacobson Group in Atlanta.  Sarah Whitby teaches in the mathematics department at Mary Persons High School.  Andilyn Williamson teaches mathematics at Northside High School in Warner Robins.  Carrie Keel Trivett now teaches mathematics at a high school in Gwinnett County.

2005: Jennifer Willis* entered a graduate program in Mathematics Education at the University of Georgia.

2005: Clint Patrick* is in pharmacy school at The Mercer University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Atlanta.

2004: Brian Gordon* is in his 3rd year of a Ph. D. program in linguistics at the University of Minnesota.

2003: Laura Bland* began working at the NSA upon graduation. 

2002: Nathan Thomas* recently finished medical school at Emory University and is now a pediatric resident at the University of Florida. Jennifer Cole (Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award winner) is the mathematics coach at Mt. de Sales High School.

2001: Meredith Russeau* works in industry.

2000: Holly Van de Voort* went to the Medical College of Georgia upon graduation.

1997: Dana Gaston*, now Dana Gaston Jennings, earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Vanderbilt.

1995:  Amy Pritchett*, last we heard, was teaching high school mathematics in Atlanta.

1992: Charles Brantley* graduated from the Mercer University Law School and has a private law practice.

1990:  Dan Sanders*, who holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology, does quantitative finance for Renaissance Technologies, LLC.

1989: Joe Bean* is a medical doctor in Missouri.  He received his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

1988: Stuart Trimble* graduated from the Mercer University Medical School and now has a medical practice in Brevard, NC.
 
1987: Thomas Bass* is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Carson Newman College in Tennessee.  He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.

1983: Sybil Blalock has a Master’s in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee.  She is Assistant Director of Athletics here at Mercer and teaches as an instructor in the Mathematics Department.

(* indicates a winner of the Plymale Award)