Chesterfield Montessori School

Marwen and Stewart McDowell of Charlotte, N.C., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kathleen Stewart McDowell, to James Rader Nowicke, son of Jeanne and Jim Nowicke of Town & Country. The bride-to-be graduated from Charlotte Latin School in 2004 and the University of Virginia in 2008 with a degree in biomedical engineering. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and anticipates receiving her doctor- ate in the spring of 2013. The future groom graduated from Saint Louis Priory School in 2004 and Princeton University in 2008 with a degree from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Currently, he is pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School and anticipates graduating in the spring of 2013. Kathleen and Jimmy met at an event in Charlottesville, Va., their junior year of college. Two years later, both were living in Baltimore, but it took a chance encounter in New York for them to realize they were living in the same city. The couple began dating and became engaged a year-and-a-half later. They are planning a spring wedding in Savannah, Ga. Following their graduations, they plan to reside in Houston.

This week, we continue our conversations with LN’s Show House designers. The 2012 William Bernoudy Ladue News Show House opens Oct. 5 and runs through Oct. 21. For ticket information, visit laduenews.com or call 269-8836.

After putting together one of the most dominant seasons ever recorded in Missouri, the defending Class 2 soccer champion Priory Rebels will look much different this fall. Much different.

SATURDAY, MAY 12

The landscape of St. Louis high school sports will have a new look in the fall. For reasons that are coincidental, cosmic or both, there will be a slew of new faces in athletics director (AD) positions throughout West County. Among those schools that have announced changes are CBC, De Smet, Vianney, Kirkwood, Priory and Bishop DuBourg.

FRIDAY, FEB. 17

Down a long, concrete staircase, stashed in the bowels of Priory’s athletic building, you’ll find the wrestling room. You’ll know you’re on the right path well before you hit the third step. The smell is what tells you. The pungent odor of blood, sweat and pain wraps your nose in a vice grip. There’s nothing quite like the scent of the wrestling room. It’s unmistakable.

It seems that around the holidays, it’s incumbent on writers like me to find people who convey the spirit of the season, someone who reminds us why—as Andy Williams sings—It’s the most wonderful time of the year. I thought about the effervescent Sugar Plum Fairy, she of the St. Charles Main Street Christmas Festival, but we all know the rest of that story. Santa Claus is way too busy—with all of his personal appearances and his tight toy production and distribution deadline. I was starting to give up.

John Mohrmann can’t explain it. Was it written in the stars? Was it fate? Was it luck? Morhmann just wrapped up his 20th season as coach of the Priory soccer team. The weekend before Thanksgiving, Mohrmann guided the Rebels to their second Class 2 state championship. They finished 27-0. It’s the second time a boys soccer team has gone unbeaten and untied in the state of Missouri. The first time was in 2005, when Priory went 26-0. “It is hard to believe,” Morhmann, 50, says. “It’s pretty amazing it’s happened twice.”

FRIDAY, NOV. 18

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FRIDAY, OCT. 14

John Mohrmann isn’t surprised by any of this. Not completely, anyway. Did he see his St. Louis Priory School soccer team closing in on 90 goals, while only allowing one through 16 games? Probably not. Did he think this team would be unbeaten at this point? It was in the realm of reasonable possibility. Did he know this year’s Rebels might be the best team to ever pull on a Priory shirt? Yes. If healthy he believed this group could be just that. “The main thing is this group understands what good soccer is,” Mohrmann says.

FRIDAY, OCT. 7

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