May 2024
I am still hanging around our alma mater, finishing year 39 in education (36 at Gilman). All I do nowadays is teach ninth grade English and help out with fresh-soph basketball. Winding down for sure, but I think that I have a couple of years still left in me. We'll see. “Men plan and God laughs!”
Stephanie and I celebrate 41 years of marriage in June. She works from home running her parents’ family business, a nonprofit, Jammat Housing and Community Development Corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island. Her responsibilities do have her making a few trips a year to Providence. Our three daughters are all out of state. Deniece, the oldest, is married to Daniel, and they live in LA with their three children, Emerson (8), Brooks (7), and Waverly (18 months). Deniece is the COO of Red Rock Entertainment, an end-to-end entertainment management and consulting company in Burbank, California, while also being the Director of Community Engagement for Private School Village, a nonprofit organization that helps families of color in California navigate the private school experience. Deniece started at Red Rock this year after spending seven years at Spotify. Tammy, our middle daughter, is an attorney with Arnold and Porter in Washington, DC. Currently, she is doing a yearlong clerkship for a federal judge in Pensacola, Florida, before returning to DC and her firm at the end of the calendar year. Our youngest, Camille, is living in LA near her oldest sister and is pursuing a career in screenwriting. Thankfully, too, she is helping her very busy oldest sister with our grandchildren! Stephanie and I travel to see our children and grandchildren whenever we can, and they all try to get back to Baltimore when they can. Of course, we wish that we could be around them all the time! Nonetheless, to say the least, the Holleys are a blessed family indeed!
Hanging around Gilman all the time gets me the chance to see several of our classmates/contemporaries fairly often. Between Gilman gatherings, golf, and sadly, funerals, I am running into fellow Greyhounds all the time! Hope to see all of you guys at our 50th, if not sooner!