Diane Nape:  

Life After graduating from CN I went to USC, and graduated in 1993 with a BA in Journalism (Advertising/ Public Relations). After that I went to work for Blue Cross Blue Shield in Columbia. During my freshman year of college, I met and became friends with Steven, but we did not start going out until late 1990. We got engaged in September 1993, and were married on January 7, 1995. We lived in Columbia while Steven finished graduate school, and in 1996 we moved to Georgia. I worked for a local newspaper as an ad designer until I had my first child, William, in March 1998. After that I stopped working to become a stay-at-home-mom. We lived in Georgia until May 2000, when Steven got a job at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA - we live in Richmond. I had my second little boy, Peyton, in May 2002. About two years after Peyton was born (Summer 2004) I started taking dance classes (tap & Jazz), and I have been shuffling along ever since. I perform in the studio's show each Spring at the Landmark Theater in downtown Richmond. It is so much fun and a great workout too. In August 2007 I also started dancing with the XF Company of dance. Our December show, The Disconnect, consisted of five sold-out performances at The Firehouse Theater in Richmond. My mom and step-dad finally sold their house over by the VA Hospital in Columbia the summer of 2007, so they could retire to their home on Edisto Island. I try to make it home at least once a year - usually in the spring or over the summer. Amy Yarnall, Crickett Hayes and Alicia Carroll were all in my wedding, and I try to stay in touch with old CN friends when I can. MySpace has proved to be a good connecting point. I almost always see Amy's mom when I come home - she and my mom are good friends, and they meet for breakfast often. She keeps me posted on news she hears about any old friends. I made it to our 5th and 10th reunions, but never heard anything about a 15th. I hope we have a 20th - GOOD GOD WE ARE GETTING OLD!!! School If you look at my list of schools you can see I was all over the place. This was due to my parent's divorce and we moved too many times to count! Sloan High School used to be a K thru 12 private school and went by the name "Sloan's School" but the only listing on this website was for the High School, so that is why I am listed there. I went to Kindergarten, first and seventh grades there. I finally planted my feet firmly into the ground when I got to High School. When I started my freshman year at Cardinal Newman in 1984 I was quite a sight with a perm and braces - It WAS the 80's. My first crush was on Kelly Ahrens, who was a senior at the time. I also thought Billy Love was really cute, and I also had a brief crush on Ben Powell. My favorite teachers were Ms. Hnat and Mrs. Manos. I became very close friends with Mrs. Manos(Mama Manos) my junior year when I assisted in her PE class and she was the cheerleading team sponsor. I adored Coach Greenwood, who was always so down to earth and easy to talk to. He definitely had a knack with students, and his office chairs were never empty. The wackiest teachers were Mr. Spangler and Mr. Herty without a doubt. Mr. Spangler always liked to mention the smell of burning flesh in the lab, and Mr. Herty was famous for his drugstore mirror in the corner of the room. Mr. Herty's class was definitely the most entertaining for me. I'll never forget how Grey Menzie, Kevin Graves and Jimmy Morris used to constantly antagonize him, much to my amusement. One of the funniest memories I have involves me falling down. We were at an out-of-town basketball game and the varsity girls were playing, I think. It was a time out and we had run out onto the court to do a cheer. When we finished, as I was running off the court the rubber on the front of my shoe caught the floor in such a way that I literally fell flat on my face. It was hysterical to say the least, and Coach Watson was very dissappointed that he had turned off the camera he was using to film the game. (for those of you that were there, you will remember "My Shoe! My Shoe!") The hardest thing for me in high school was when Mrs. Manos announced that she would not be sponsoring the Cheerleading squad the following year. My junior year was by far my favorite. Our squad was awesome: Crickett, Sherri, Amy, Kelly, Kirstin, Tammy, Trish and me. Crickett and Sherri graduated, and I was the only one of us to cheer our Senior year. I was selected for Captain, but in many ways it was bittersweet. I ended up with a great squad and we had a great year, but it was never quite the same. Graduation for our class was awesome. We were the first class to wear black caps and gowns. We looked great! I'll never forget the end of the ceremony when Donnie Elgin, I believe, let out a big "Yee-Haa" and everyone threw their caps in the air. Prior to the ceremony we were told many, many, many times that we COULD NOT do that. I think they even threatened to take our dipolmas, but we got away with it. Unfortunately, I never got my cap off in time - I had just about welded it to my head with bobby pins so Mrs. McLendon wouldn't mess with it. She kept pulling everyone's caps forward onto their foreheads, "the way they were supposed to be worn." I successfully dodged her before the ceremony began. After all, it was the 80's, we were SUPPOSED to have big hair!!! College I remember when I was looking at college's in High School. My first choice originally was Clemson University - I wanted to be an architect. Later, I decided I wanted to study public relations and advertising (Journalism). I looked at the University of Georgia, University of Tennessee, the University of Florida and the University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina won out because it was an in-state school, so tuition was less expensive. (My mom and step-dad were going to have three kids in college at once, so the more economical the better. My brot...Expand for more