Stalk the Professors!
After some serious digging around on the dark web, I have hoped to uncover some truths about my professors, Mary Abdoney and Elizabeth Anne Teaff. From a quick search of their social media accounts, I was able to attain a great deal of information about them, mostly from their Facebook about tabs and their LinkedIn profiles. These sources allowed me to find the dates of when they attended high school, college, and other jobs they might’ve had throughout the course of their career.
For Mary Abdoney, I learned that she was born in June of 1976, with no information when the exact date of her birthday is. She grew up in Tampa, Florida, going to H.B. Plant High School from 1990-1994. From there, Mary went on to study at the University of Florida from 1995-1999. Go Gators! At Florida, she was apart of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She then studied at the University of South Florida from 2000-2001 and received her degree in library and information studies. From there, she went on to become a librarian at Eckerd College in Florida from 2001-2005, which then gave her the credentials to make the move to W&L in 2006. In her personal life, Mary has accomplished so much. When she was younger, Mary was a ballerina, played the violin and cello, and loved to garden. She also has a strong affinity for cats, even naming one after Miles Davis. Mary met her husband, Ned Norland, after some time of searching online. Ned was the perfect guy for Mary as he has all the qualities of a great husband. He’s a computer nerd and was a DJ. He can play many instruments (more than Mary). And he loves bourbon. After driving from Lexington to Chapel Hill every weekend to make the relationship work, they finally bought a house together in Lexington on Myers Street in August 2012. They eventually got married at Castle Rock on September 29, 2012 and have lived happily ever after. Her political views can be found on all social media accounts, as she has no problem saying what she believes online. As a registered democrat, she was a strong Elizabeth Warren supporter in the 2020 Presidential election. She also is a strong ally of the LGBTQ community and feminist movements.
Elizabeth Anne Teaff was born on June 16th, 1974 in Columbus, Ohio. She says Ohio is her home state, however, she graduated high school from Gloversville High school in New York, meaning from some time between the ages of 0-18 she moved to New York. After graduating high school, she attended Fulton-Montgomery Community College and studied art there for 2 years. She then went on to SUNY Potsdam where she attained her bachelors degree in 1996. After some time of doing nothing, at least according to her internet history, she became a librarian at W&L in 2003 and has worked there for the past 17 years. She also got her masters in library and information studies from the University of South Carolina in 2006. In her personal life, there is not much going on. She is single, according to her Facebook relationship status. She does not go on many excursions, or at least does not post about them. She did go see Hamilton on Broadway, but that was a few years ago. Her interests include but are not limited to cats and dying her hair in different shades of red. Her political views are not as outspoken as Mary’s, but it can be inferred that she leans more liberal on some issues. She did vote in 2016.
Online, I was definitely able to find more information about Professor Abdoney than Professor Teaff but most of the information found about Professor Abdoney was on her About Me tab on her wedding website. This little experiment will not change my social media presence as I already keep a low social media profile and I am comfortable with how much everyone can find out about me. However, I will not be creating a website for my wedding as it gives way too much detail and this is not the first time I found out information about my teacher on a wedding website.
