Announcements

Adria & Chris were married on December 3, 2010

Welcome to the Family, Chris!

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Todd and Channell's son, Aiden Fox, was born on September 21, 2010

He weighed in at 7 lbs 5.5 oz  and was 21 in long.

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Detra and Ben's son was born on ????

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Adria and Chris are expecting a baby girl on September 4th!  They are registered at Babies R Us (click here) (under Adria Williams)

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JaRiah Renae’ Carmichael was born September 25, 2010 at 1:14 p.m. to

Jonathan Richard Carmichael & Ayeshia Kearney.

She weighed 7 lbs, 12oz and was 21 ½ inches long.

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Taraji Lenae’ Jackson was born September 28, 2010 at 5:28 a.m. to Ta-Tyana Shanee’ Carmichael.

She weighed 6lbs 7oz, 20 inches long.

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Ligaya and Korry Lowe welcomed a new member to their family on February 17th, 2011--Master Korry Markel Lowe, Jr. who weighed in at a healthy 7 lbs 7 oz and 19 inches long.  Welcoming him home were his sisters, Ceanna, Nya and Camille.

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Tanya & Steve will say "I Do" on February 13, 2012 while cruising the Caribbean!

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Ta-Tyana graduated from Florida State Community College of Jacksonville on May 7, 2011, with an Associates of Art in Liberal Arts. She will be entering the BSN program at Chamberlain College in the fall of 2011.

Destyni is a graduate of Hubert H. Humphrey Middle School!  She is graduating with an above average GPA, is a gifted student having achieved the honor of becoming a participant of the National Junior Honor Society.  She will continue her education at Bolingbrook High School.

Regina "Rena" Candice Jacobs graduated from Georgia Southern University with a Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology with a minor in math on May 14th. She also completed the requirements for a degree in Electrical Engineering which she will receive next spring. After several interviews, she has accepted a position with Norfolk-Southern.

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Prom

Arielle attended the Junior Prom with her date, Dylan!

Arielle scored very close to perfect on the writing portion of the SAT assessment!

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Yasmine won the State Championship for the Girls 12 and Over Handicap Pepsi Bowling Tournament in Raleigh, North Carolina.  She bowled her first 200 game and won $750 to go towards college.

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Todd deployed in April for Dubai for 6 to 7 months!

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Anona successfully defended her dissertation proposal and is now officially a Doctoral Candidate!  Time to finish the BIG Paper!

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Ligaya Lowe completed her first year of graduate school with the University of South Carolina in Columbia majoring in Social Work.

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Sierra Jacobs completed her junior year at Northside High School - Achieving Principal's List (All A's) for the year.  This is especially significant as she carried a pretty rigorous schedule this year including: AP World History, AP Language Arts, Honors Physics, and her Engineering courses.  She was co-captain of the Robotics team, a member of the Volleyball team and Section 1 leader of her JROTC program.  She received the American Legion Merit Award of Scholastic Excellence. She has been made second in command for the JROTC program for her senior year.

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Reginald "RJ" Jacobs, II completed his 6th grade year at Veteran's Memorial Middle school achieving all A's (Principal's List) for the end of the school year.  He received the Citizenship student of the year award, Business and Consumer Science Student for the 6th grade (Computers), President's Education Award Program Certificate and is a member of his grade's drum line.

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Payton is graduating 5th grade and going to middle school. Austin and Stone are graduating from Kindergarten and going to first grade.

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Bernita and Ted will host their Annual Cookout on Saturday, September 3^rd  in

Hilliard, FL!

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Donald's new address is:

Donald A. Thomas, Sr.
1-D-46B/327-276
18701 Roxbury Road
Hagerstown, MD 21746

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