1984
Jay Braiman is a general business litigation associate at Goodwin Procter LLP. Prior to
that he was an English teacher at Brooklyn High School of the Arts and Long Island City
High School. He recently moved to California.
1986
Derek Sadowsky lives in Minneapolis and works as a mutual fund portfolio manager.
He recently got married.
1987
Shane Murray visited the school in August 2014 to show her two sons, Kyle, 9, and
Matthew, 2, visited the school in August to show her sons where she spent much of her
childhood, as her father, David Murray, was head of school from 1980 to 1985. Shane
lives in New Lebanon, NH with her family, which includes a daughter, Katie, 22. She
owns her own business, The Murray Agency, an insurance and financial services
company. Shane says, “I loved seeing the pics of my dad in the school and all of the
changes. Such a special place to me.”
1989
Katy Magee Kenney has recently moved from Boston to a suburb of Rochester, NY
while her husband does his residency. She is a full time mom with twin four year old
girls! She writes, “I help out at their nursery school and keep very busy with them. I am
enjoying all of these precious moments while they are young.” If she lived nearer to
Millbrook, Katy says that her girls would be at DDS!
Peter Olympia is the Director of College Counseling at YES Prep Public Schools in
Houston, Texas, which serves first-generation, low income students. Prior to this
position, he worked in college admissions at Allegheny College and Boston University,
and college counseling at Fort Worth Country Day. He served in Afghanistan in the
army, as well. He writes, “It has been a real adventure! I met my wife, Alexis, a native
Texan, in 2005 and our son, Connor was born in 2010. He is an amazing little boy who
definitely keeps us busy. We were back in New York this past summer and took Connor
to Millbrook and the Trevor Zoo. He had a blast!”
1991
Zoë Koff lives in Israel with her husband and daughter, Sinaia. Zoe (Zola Dubnikova) is
a professional dancer who has spent years studying the classical dances of Persia and
India. She writes us, “There is a deep irony in teaching and performing such powerful
lineages of dance, which are intended to empower women, in cultures where the reality
of everyday life so deeply contradicts the principles on which these dances are based.
My immersion into classical Persian dance, Sufi tradition and classical Indian dance
cannot be separated from the socio-political situations in Iran and India. I am beginning
to create a work that explores this question, as I wonder what is my part in healing this
immense rift in humanity.” Zoë is currently working on a new project which she is
directing, producing, writing, choreographing and performing.
After working for a company called Design Within Reach in Soho, Jennifer Flood has
returned to school full time at the NY School of Interior Design, which she has attended
on and off since 2008.
Coco O’Brien Mattos sent a beautiful letter about her life since Dutchess Day. A high
school study abroad program in Morocco led Coco to become “obsessed” with the
African continent, and to major in History with a minor in African history at Boston
College. She spent a semester in Kenya with the National Outdoor Leadership School
summiting Mt. Kenya, learning Swahili, hiking across the Savannah, and sailing the
Indian Ocean in a traditional Dhow. At The School for International Training in Vermont
she focused on international relations and development work, and an interest in
Mozambique led her to learn its official language, Portuguese. She headed for Brazil,
where she “lived in many remote parts of the country conducting research on microdevelopment projects and their impacts on the community and the national economy.”
She also made many friends and fell in love with the country, ending up making Brazil
her home for the next 15 years. She returned to New York a few years ago to fulfill a
life-long dream of attending medical school. She and her siblings were able to be with
their father when he died, and to celebrate and honor his memory together. Coco
married “Anderson Cardoso De Mattos, a former professional soccer player, volunteer
coach for shanty-town kids teams, graduate school student, late night samba
dancer, business man, and best-friend” in Brazil in 2008. Coco shared many happy
memories of DDS, including “costumes at Halloween and getting Indian names in third
grade, building Roman coliseums out of pasta in fourth, school dances in upper school
and making a movie in eighth.” She adds, “I also remember [Ms. Park’s] cute baby that
[she] would bring to class and put in a pack ‘n’ play in the back of the room [that would
be Win Haas, ‘04] and cannot believe that I now have two of my own.” Coco and her
husband live outside Sao Paolo “with our two children, Maximo (three) and Penelope
(almost two!), our dog, Dog, and the various Toucans and monkeys that appear in the
trees.”
1992
Wixon Greenwood married Sibyl Stevens Fenwick on October 12, 2013 in Montecito,
CA. Katie Schoonmaker Jenkins ’92 was the matron of honor. Wixon is a freelance
film and television editor in Los Angeles and his new wife is the marketing specialist for
a Whole Foods Market in West Hollywood. They met years ago as students at The
Millbrook School and reconnected in California a few years ago.
Brooke Sadowsky moved to the Philippines in 2012 to continue her work for Rare, a
non-profit organization that specializes in using advertising strategies to motivate people
to adopt more environmentally friendly and sustainable practices
(www.rareconservation.org). Their focus is on inspiring local fishermen in developing
countries to follow fishing regulations so the fish populations can continue to survive
and replenish. Leaving Arlington, VA where the company is based, she became the
director of the Philippines office. In 2014, she returned to the Hudson Valley, continuing
her work with the company, only now closer to home!
1993
Ms. Park met with Beth Boisi for coffee at Slammin’ Salmon in Millbrook early in
September 2014 while she was visiting her mother. Beth spoke about her recent
adventures and upcoming move. She recently traveled for nine weeks through Thailand
and Indonesia. She started out visiting the Blooming Yoga Retreat on the island of Koh
Phangan and while in Thailand spent time in seven other places, including Bangkok and
Phuket. She spent time in Bali as well. The experience was tremendously “freeing,”
Beth reports. “I could go wherever I wanted. I learned that it’s only in the US that people
say, ‘What do you do?’ Most other places people ask, ‘Where have you been? What do
you love?’ When you travel, you have common ground with everyone else who travels.”
After living and working in New York, and prior to that, Denver, CO, Beth moved this
past September to Charleston, South Carolina.
Shira Brisman did a post-doc in Medieval European art history at Columbia University
and then, along with her husband Gregory Vershbow and son Asa, moved to Madison,
Wisconsin to take a tenure track position at the University of Wisconsin.
Ted Kruelski lives and works in DC where he is in the IT field, currently doing email
system administration. He is also an avid amateur photographer, and a hobbyist with
wide ranging interests including numismatics (the study of coins) and ham radio. He
discovered “the first trail die on a non-monetary medal” – which sounds confusing but is
exciting for error coin collectors.
Eugenie Montague sent a wonderful update to us about her recent history. She taught
7th and 8th grade English through Teach for America in Los Angeles right out of
undergrad. She credits English projects at DDS for inspiration in creating a mural with
her students on a school wall, based on poems they had written in a poetry unit (their
own version of "So much depends on...). She writes, “I liked the idea of school being a
place to create something big, community-based and permanent (at least semipermanent).” After that, Eugenie went to law school at Duke and became an antitrust
and securities attorney in Washington, DC. Since then she has changed trajectories
once again, as the law was not what she wanted to be doing. She is currently getting
her MFA in fiction at the University of California, Irvine and teaching creative writing and
composition to freshmen.
Ms. Park saw something on Facebook about Topher O'Brien’s being in Vietnam.
Curious, she sent him a message. His response is below, verbatim, an extraordinary
tale of how a Dutchess Day alum wound up in Vietnam commissioning a sculptor.
“Sometime last year I purchased a ten and a half foot section of ripped out bowling lane.
I thought it would make a lovely table top, though having no home of my own I knew
that the two hundred dollar purchase would need to be the recipient of some creative
improvements in order to shave the most minor of profits. I began to brainstorm but
every idea always came up short on making me smile. One day things started to come
together. Some years earlier I had conceptualized a table whose legs were bronzes of
an addict Atlas, veins popping and head lowered in anesthetized shame. But that top
was to be some rough marble or a crosscut of a tree, not the well worn slats of maple
that I now had in my possession. Who would be my bowling Atlas? Films flashed into
my mind, until an idea made me howl in laughter. Nixon, Richard Milhous. He would be
my Atlas. The bearer of so much cultural shame, and the installer of the White House
bowling alley. I tried my hands at molding that man with my own hands, but the only
sculptoric success I ever had under Mrs. Murray's guiding eyes was a ceramic hoagie. I
researched and interviewed regional artists and soon became aware of the
extraordinary costs of casting four bronze Nixon table legs. In another eureka moment it
hit and seared my mind with irony-- Vietnam, find a sculptor in Vietnam. So, I did. And it
has surpassed my expectations. There were some arguments about his early molds
looking like short fat Maos, but now as I am boarding a flight to Moscow and then to
Spain, he is moving on to the next stage of production. I will return to Vietnam after a
shortish Lampoonesque European excursion, and most likely stay in Hanoi for a little
while (I need to figure out a tax free way to ship Nixon home) and work, before returning
to the US to put the table together. I also need to work on putting together a prospectus
to find a gallery. Most desirable would be to have it on display in the Watergate Hotel
lobby. That sums up my reasons for being in Vietnam. I appreciate the curiosity and am
proud to have your support.”
Kyle Utter lives in Southfield, MA with her six-year-old daughter, Everett. She is the
founder and proprietor of two antique stores, Jest (vintage clothing and jewelry) and
Duke & Duchess Vintage (antique furniture and home decor), both of which she
operates out of her home and online.
1994
Parker Corbin lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife Hill and their two children and is
vice president at Morgan Stanley in Purchase, NY. His oldest child, Lavely Pyne Corbin,
began attending Greenwich Country Day School this fall. Lavely’s little sister, Campbell
McGhee Corbin, is two. Parker and Hill are redoing their house in Greenwich.
Tara Fischer lives in Bismarck, North Dakota and has a doctorate in clinical
psychology. She is engaged to Jason Geigle.
Antonia Kerckerinck Kannengiesser and her husband Frank are DDS parents. Antonia
reports that “Sofi is loving first grade and we look forward to Magus starting P4 next
year. We are also the proud godparents of Eliot ’94 and Lexa Clarke’s beautiful baby
boy, Eliot, and are trying to convince them to send him to DDS!”
After traveling, living and studying in many places around the globe, including France,
Italy and China, and Scotland, where he attended the University of Edinburgh and
majored in artificial intelligence, Daniele Milani settled in Milan, Italy about 8 years ago.
He started his own IT business called PixelUp. Quoting from the website
(www.pixelupstudios.com): “PixelUp develops virtual worlds and interactive 3D
solutions geared at facilitating business processes and boosting impact of sales and
marketing initiatives.” Daniele still has fond memories of DDS, saying that he can tell
from visiting our website that “the school hasn’t lost the strong family and community
values that defined it. Those are such important years in a child's life for molding their
character, and I have no doubt that my four years at DDS contributed for the better to
shaping me as an adult.”
Brad Potter lives in Santa Barbara, CA, and has a job he loves, as national sales
manager at Gainey Vineyard. He is traveling a great deal, but enjoys the fishing and
surfing weekends he is able to schedule around his work. As a national rep he visits NY
and Boston frequently.
Rob Wilkinson is an adjunct professor who teaches art and design at Kendall College
of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and at Grand Valley State University. He earned
his MFA in studio photography at Kendall. He also has his own wedding photography
business robwilkinsonphotography.com.
Paul Yoon’s first novel Snow Hunters came out last August to critical acclaim. His first
book of stories, Once the Shore, a New York Times Notable Book, also won a National
Book Foundation award, a “5 Under 35” Award, the Asian American Literary Award for
Fiction and a Best Book of the Year award from The Los Angeles Times, Publisher’s
Weekly and other newspapers. He is currently at Andover as the writer-in-residence,
teaching senior electives in creative writing and completing his second novel. He is
engaged to fiction writer Laura van den Berg.
1995
Molly Dyson is very busy these days and moving up this way, to Rhinebeck. She
writes: “I serve roles at both the Dyson Foundation and my family's private investment
company, Dyson Kissner-Moran, in New York City. I am also pursuing my masters in
social work. Additionally, I am an NYU-certified executive and life coach, and I am
currently working to set up my website!”
Lauren Evangelista lives in New York City and works for Pfizer as a senior marketing
manager for their lung cancer drug.
Ryan James is a restaurateur, caterer and businessman. He owns popular, seasonal
soup shacks in Winhalla and Rockingham, VT called Smokin’ Bowls, as well as Harvest
Moon, a commercial kitchen and restaurant space, with apartments, in Saxtons River,
VT. He is also opening restaurants in Marina Del Rey, CA. He is an avid sailor and says
his businesses “support [his] sailing habit.”
In an email Teresa Kerckerinck updated us on her recent life path: “I became an art
therapist in NYC, after completing my master’s degree in art therapy and creativity
development at Pratt. What an amazing program! This inspired me to continue with my
education and I am currently working on a PhD in mind-body medicine. I am fascinated
with the ancient systems of healing and the deep-rooted philosophy upon which these
systems are based resonates deeply with me. I think modern healthcare is experiencing
a major shift right now and as we learn more about the earliest traditions of mind-body
medicine such as meditation, yoga, martial arts, breathing exercises, visualization,
imagery, art, creativity, spirituality, etc. our perspectives on health care, and health and
healing, will evolve and expand!”
Abigail Montague is living in New York and has been working for the Authors Guild
since graduating from Skidmore. She works in the web services department. She writes:
“My department helps authors set up their own websites, domain names, etc using the
Guild's easy-to-use software called Sitebuilder. I'm doing a lot with feature
developments for the software now, which is actually really fun, but requires a quite a bit
of testing, which can get a bit tedious at times too. That's the majority of what I do, but
with any non-profit, there's a lot of other stuff thrown in there just to keep things
interesting.”
Laura Richards Milligan teaches at Choate Rosemary Hall. She lives in Madison, CT
with her husband, Chris Milligan, and her two children, Oliver and Oakley.
Scott Vitale reports from Denver about his trip to Kilimanjaro this past summer. He
writes: “Our trip to Kilimanjaro is something my wife, Kate, has been talking about doing
since our very first date. We convinced two friends from Denver to tag along. The trip
included a seven day hike of Kilimanjaro using the Machame Route. Our group was the
four of us, two guides, two cooks, and 14 porters (no pack animals). Day six was
summit day and we started our final climb at just after midnight. We reached the peak at
6:56 am, shortly after we saw the sun rise through the clouds. It was an incredible
experience and a real mental and physical challenge. After the hike, we spent four days
on safari in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Manyara National Parks. We saw a
ton of wildlife including three male lions, a cheetah with cubs, hippos, warthogs, gazelle,
hyenas, jackals, giraffes, wildebeests, and countless elephants. The final leg of the trip
was five days on the beach in Zanzibar. Totally relaxing and a great way to wind down
before having to come back to the real world. The tides on the east side of Zanzibar
island are extreme, and at low tide you can walk out a good quarter mile before
reaching the surf. Lots of coral and sea critters to see on the walk and incredibly clear
aqua waters. Definitely a trip of a lifetime!”
Parker Wayne and his wife of fifteen years ,Katie Huff Wayne, live in Round Rock, TX.
They have two children, Benjamin Curtis Wayne, 2, and Brooklyn Ann Wayne, 7
months. Parker owns his own business, Apollo Games, which deals with all generations
of video games, from Xbox One to Atari.
Reed Weeden Minor is still teaching 10th and 12th grade English at Greenwich
Academy, and serving as 11th grade dean. She lives in Greenwich with her husband
and daughter, Sylvie. They recently welcomed their second child, Wellsley Weeden
Minor.
Bryn Woodworth recently lived and taught in Seoul, Korea. While there, she travelled
around Southeast Asia, visited India last spring and subsequently returned to the States
to teach ESL in Boston. She writes to us: “My goal with teaching ESL is to test the
waters of a career in education, before I make a decision on grad school. I don't want to
teach this subject much longer but I'm learning a lot. It also allows for the type of
traveling I like to do. I think of Ms. Park often when I'm attempting to teach grammar!! I
know we had fun diagramming sentences; I just have to channel that fun into my
classroom.”
Sarah Zachary Grant married Steven Grant on April 26, 2014. They live in Lisbon, NY,
where Steven works in law enforcement and Sarah works on their farm. Prior to moving
to Lisbon, Sarah worked in television production in New York City. She loves the
changes in her life and says her work on the farm is “the most rewarding job I’ve ever
had.”
1996
Lindsey Corbin is the director of business development at Chevron Energy Solutions in
San Francisco and covers all of California. She just bought a second home in beautiful
Truckee, CA and will be a landlady, renting it out by the week.
Emma Dweck practices acupuncture in Millerton, NY.
Jasmine Foreman Kozero writes us: “I have so many amazing memories from DDS!
l'm entering into my tenth year teaching. I teach special ed at a local elementary school.
I live in Bethlehem PA with my husband and our daughter.”
1996
Ann Bernard is a teacher in Montana. She has been teaching 4th and 5th graders in a
rural school in the town of LaMotte. This year she has moved to Sacajawea Middle
School in Bozeman where she will teach English and social studies to 8 th graders. She
will teach half the 8th grade, which is 110 students! She writes, “I definitely have my
work cut out for me, but I am thrilled about the change. I am so excited to read novels
and discuss them, and to get the kids excited about writing and reading.” Meanwhile,
her brothers Andy ’90 and Charlie ‘94 are trying to lure her back east.
1997
Evan Arteaga lives in Burlingame, CA – on the San Francisco peninsula – and works
for Fortune 1000 company Salesforce, the world leader in customer relationship
management software that keeps a centralized database of customer information. They
work virtually, so all information is accessible in the cloud, from anywhere in the world.
Evan especially likes that the company gives away 1% of their time, resources and
technnology.
On June 21, 2013, Katie Baubie married John Vincent in Denver, CO where they
reside.
Emilie Jean is a dealer of vintage and antique ethnic textiles, costumes and jewelry
from all over the world but especially West Africa and the Indian subcontinent. She sells
them at her shop, Xenomania, at 206 E. 6th Street in New York City, between Bowery
and 2nd Ave. Emilie married Ian Irving on March 21st, 2014 at the City Clerk’s office on
Staten Island; the ceremony was followed by dinner and dancing. They traveled to
Tangier for the month of August.
Philippa Kerckerinck has moved to Cape Town, South Africa where she started a nonprofit called Roots Tribe Yoga, which aims to bring yoga, in combination with cultural
dance and movement, to children throughout Africa. After obtaining her masters in
international affairs and development, and subsequently training to become a yoga
instructor, Philipa “realized that yoga could be a very powerful tool for international
development. For children especially, as they start to build strength and skill, they begin
to believe in their own potential in a new way.” (This is not totally current information!)
Vanessa Marek is the assistant designer and product developer for Slane Jewelry. She
has her own jewelry studio in Brooklyn. She is working on designing and producing her
first full line.
In a bio he wrote for a recent art show, Trevor McWilliams explained, “My work is a
dialogue with the mysterious, magical places that help shape my imagination.” Living in
the Pacific Northwest, Trevor is inspired by his environment. He writes, “I live in the old
gate-keeper's house next to Mt. Tabor Park in SE Portland and can walk right out my
back door to a path that leads to the top of the mountain, which is covered in old-growth
Douglas fir and is the only inactive volcano within city limits in the Lower 48. It's
absolutely beautiful and is a big part of how and why I am making art every day.”
Trevor’s main source of income is his art—drawing and painting, mostly on commission
(but he also sells his non-commissioned work). His work has been featured in a variety
of art exhibits, for example in 2013 at the Tiburon Art Festival and the Spectrum Gala
Benefit for Access Institute for Psychological Services.
1998
Alison Crocker represented the USA in orienteering at the World Games in Colombia.
She is in her second post doc in astrophysics at the University of Toledo.
Silvia Ghedini works as an occupational therapist with special needs elementary
school children, is the mother of two sons, Mateo, 2, and Elijah, who will be 1 in March.
Silvia tells us, not unexpectedly, “They are truly the loves of my life.”
Bruce Knickerbocker lives in Hyde Park and is the Director of Patient Care at Vassar
Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. He and his wife, Kelly, have two children,
Carter, age two, and a baby girl born in July of 2013.
On September 8, 2014, guitarist Alex Nolan debuted (singing and playing guitar) with
the all-women band called the MVPs and led by Everett Bradley, the percussionist for
Bruce Springsteen. The MVPs is the studio band on Meredith Viera’s new daily talk
show on NBC. Alex also plays gigs in and around New York, including once a month in
Rhinebeck at the Shelter. This past summer she backed Jill Sobule, for whom she has
worked before, in a live show at the City Winery in New York.
1999
Danielle Jones lives in Los Angeles and is in two theater groups—Antaeus Company
and Critical Mass Performance Group. She is having a novel published and getting
married to Brandt Kreitzberg in August! As she puts it: “Life is crazy sometimes.” She
recently got married!
Danielle Knapp Turner reports about her recent wedding to Adam Turner this past
summer. “My wedding was absolutely perfect! We got married at West Hills Country
Club in Middletown, NY on June 20th. My cousin, Ryan Ruocco (DDS '00), acted as
our officiant. Former Dutchess Day students Ashley Ruocco and Kendal Trefz were
my maids of honor. My brother, Shane Knapp '01, was a groomsman. The wedding
was also attended by Inga Stots McKay '99 and Ilze Stots, a former DDS student. We
had perfect weather and an amazing celebration. Adam and I both wrote our own vows
and with Ryan as our officiant everything was so personal. Adam and I honeymooned in
St. Lucia and relaxed on the beach, which was so much fun!”
Kenneth Knickerbocker and his wife, Iefa, who married in 2013, had their first child in
January of 2014. They currently live in Indonesia where Kenny works as manager of
Nihiwatu Estates, a luxury resort.
Lucy Knisley married John Horstman on September 13, 2014, in Rhinebeck, NY. She
writes: “If you were around the Hudson Valley that day, you might remember it as the
one that POURED RAIN ALL DAY. But it was still fun! We got hitched in my mom's
backyard woodworking barn in Rhinebeck, and ended the night around a campfire. Now
I'm back in Chicago to work on my next books while promoting my third (An Age of
License) that came out from Fantagraphics [in September]. Busy stuff!”
Margaux Roesch Quinn lives in Winter Park, FL with her husband, and teaches gifted
first through fifth graders. She tells us, “I can't wait for Valentine's Day because I'm
going to have them all put together poems like we did in 7th or 8th grade. I'll never
forget that.”
Giuliana Rovedo (previously Julie Ann) began a new job recently working as Project
Manager of Implementations at Ovation Corporate Travel in White Plains, NY. The
company is like a travel agency that books travel exclusively for corporate clients.
Giuliana sets up the relationship between the company and Ovation. Being multi-lingual
definitely helps her with this job! She reports, “I am very happy at my new job -- love the
company, my boss, colleagues, location of office, etc. It is fantastic.”
2000
Laura Baker is an elementary school librarian in the White Plains school district. Being
a tech savvy librarian with both a library science degree and an English degree is a
distinct advantage! She is also certified to teach English. Laura married Justin Gray,
and English teacher, on August 2, 2014.
Charlie Hettinger lives in Tampa, FL and works in engineering and design in a
company he started with his sister and dad called Trim Aviation. He got married on
March 9, 2014 to Jen Caron Hettinger. Paul Stuckey ’00 was the best man!
Emily Levitt is getting her PhD in anthropology at Cornell. She is studying Indian land
right issues that are going on in Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes, right in her backyard.
On August 11, 2012, Emily married Zeno Houston, whom she met in high school in
England, and then reconnected with at university. He attends law school at Syracuse
University.
Kelly Nolan has moved back to the area and is living in Kingston. She is the marketing
and client relations manager for Change Sciences, which conducts web site research
and usability testing for several big financial, entertainment, travel and e-commerce
companies. She also is a freelance social media consultant.
Ryan Ruocco is an announcer for ESPN covering the Brooklyn Nets. This year he and
his broadcast team won an Emmy award for the season coverage. He writes to say: “I’m
fortunate to do what I love and that keeps me stimulated on a daily basis. My Nets
broadcast team is an incredible group to be part of and being recognized with an Emmy
is an honor and a wonderful validation of all the hard work we put in. It feels good to
know people enjoy the work as much as we enjoy doing it.”
Cynthia Tobey is a doctoral candidate in music and music education at Teacher’s
College at Columbia University, concentrating in college teaching. She is also on the
applied piano faculty at Columbia and teaches a course on chamber music and
democracy. Last year she was a soloist with the Lake George Chamber Orchestra,
performing Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto.
2001
After graduating from Harvard, Mark Crocker attended VCU School of Dentistry in
Richmond, VA. He lives in downtown Washington DC with his wife, Katherine, whom he
married on June 26, 2010. Katherine is a graduate of UVA law school and is currently
clerking for Justice Scalia. They have two rescue dogs named Burdick and Dolley.
Kiran Dinsa has lived in New York City for eight years, including her time at NYU.
Currently living in Brooklyn, a block from her brother Amar ’04, Kiran helps manage a
nonprofit program that helps homeless New Yorkers secure employment.
Carly McWilliams lives in Washington, DC and is on the professional staff for the
House Committee on Commerce and Energy.
2002
Daniel Leopold is in his second year of graduate school studying clinical psychology
and neuroscience at CU Boulder. His research focuses on dyslexia, dyscalculia (math
disability), and ADHD, and will incorporate neuroimaging components for diagnosis. The
program is five years at CU and a one year pre-doctoral internship. In addition, Daniel is
taking an extra year of coursework for the neuroscience component. The clinical psych
requires two years of course work in addition to practicum (being supervised while
seeing clients). Daniel writes: “I'm in it for the long haul and loving the academic setting,
so my current plan is to stay in academia, get licensed so that I can do clinical work
(i.e., provide neuropsychological evaluations, diagnoses, and accommodation letters)
when needed, and continue teaching and doing research. Ideally, I'd love to have or join
a diagnostic clinic for children with academic difficulties and have enough funding and
connections to refer the children, in-house, into various remedial programs to evaluate
intervention efficacy.” He loves being in Colorado, as his entire family is there, as well
as groups of friends from Dartmouth and CU with whom to enjoy “the great music, food,
and the beautiful outdoors.”
Kari Schmaling graduated from University of Vermont in 2010 with a pre-vet degree,
but since then has decided to go into human medicine. After living in Rhode Island,
where she worked in an environmental chemistry lab, and then Vail, Colorado for six
magical months of skiing, Kari and her now-fiancé Mike Willey moved to Portland,
Maine. Kari recently wrote a newsy update: “In Maine, I was lucky enough to land a
pretty unique job. The company is called Integr8health. It was a start-up at the time -just me, the business manager, and a doctor. Now we have three offices, one in
Massachusetts! The doctors and nurse practitioners certify patients to use medical
marijuana here in Maine. Patients must have a qualifying condition to be certified for the
mmj. The physicians spend a full hour with each patient. Our office took off! We started
getting hundreds of patients who were tired of the same old horrible health care and
their doctors pushing prescriptions on them. The word spread fast in Maine that there
were doctors willing to spend an hour with each patient.
“When Mike had to move two hours north to Bangor to manage a branch of his
company we relocated. Instead of letting me go, my bosses offered to let me work from
home. Now I do administrative duties remotely. The best aspect of this company is that
they are so small and understanding they let me work my schedule around
classes. After seeing the doctors and nurses in the practice I decided to switch gears
and go back to school for human medicine. I am taking classes to go to nursing school,
possibly medical school. We will see how I do! Last night I got the highest grade I have
ever gotten on a test, a 108 on an anatomy and physiology exam! Mike and I have been
together for five years, since our senior year of college! We will marry at Sunday River
on top of a ski mountain this time next year! Natasha Menell ’02 and Jackson Roesch
‘02 will both be in my wedding party.”
2003
Rhiannon Archer is working in the legal department of Disney in London. She received
her Graduate Diploma in Law in July 2012 (after a BA in French and Italian in 2011) and
is now working for a couple of years before returning to do the final qualification to be a
lawyer. This will take her a year and is rather like the bar exam. She loves the job, and
loves the people! She has just moved to London from Oxford.
2004
Mimi Anthony lives in New York City and works for Boo Gemes, a clothing designer.
She also coaches field hockey, squash and lacrosse at the Spence School.
Rachel Baker recently returned from China, where she attended Tsinghua University
for an intensive Mandarin language program. While there, she also visited South Korea,
Taiwan and southwest China. She also recently spent three months in Australia.
Stephanie Crocker graduated from Dartmouth with two academic awards and this
summer taught an intro to engineering course at her alma mater, St Paul's School.
Megan Foster graduated from George Washington University in December of 2012 and
in June started grad school at Smith College School for Social Work. In September, she
started classes and will graduate with her masters in social work in August of 2015.
Ashley Friend is a graduate of George Washington University with a BS in biomedical
engineering. In May of 2014 she graduated from NYU where she studied clinical
research. She writes, “I'm hoping to transition into the clinical research field within the
next couple of years and put all this schooling to use!”
Derek Gideon graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 2012 and won two major
prizes: the Robert Fagles Senior Thesis Prize for the best senior thesis by a
comparative literature major in translation or creative writing and the Francis LeMoyne
Page creative writing award for distinctive achievement in creative writing. He also won
a Fulbright and traveled to Kenya where he recorded and translated oral praise poetry
in a remote region. Though he is fluent in Swahili, Derek had to learn the Kuria
language of the people whose poetry he was recording. He is currently living in
Cambridge, England and wrapping up his Fulbright project.
Win Haas still lives and works in Burlington, VT. He is finishing up a degree in outdoor
education. He describes his band, The Edd, as a “funky/heavy psychedelic rock band
with an electronic edge and a lot of improv.” He plays lead guitar. They play numerous
gigs throughout Vermont and tour around New England. He also has a musical side
project called Yodapif. He and one other musician create beats by sampling music from
sounds and old recordings, and do live improvisation. With Yodapif Win plays drums
and keyboards and raps. Win is a ski instructor at Stowe in the winters and works as a
companion and aide to a young man with Downs Syndrome.
Ally Marzullo graduated from the College of Charleston in 2012 and has recently
moved from DC to New York.
Julian (JJ) Katz-Samuels graduated from the University of Chicago and is now in grad
school at U. Michigan, in a dual program in computer technology and sociology. When
he is done, he will have an MS in the former, and a PhD in the latter!
Kelsey Reifler lives and works in NYC. She is a graphic designer in Vogue's in-house
creative agency. Kelsey reports that she is “doing things from invitations for events to
helping art direct photo shoots. Brands will come to Vogue asking for branding
campaigns since they trust the Vogue voice.”
Katherine Scherr graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a major in electrical
and computer engineering. She stayed in Pittsburgh (which she loves) and works as a
software developer at Branding Brand, a rapidly growing start up that makes mobile
web sites and apps for top ecommerce sites (American Eagle, Sephora, GNC, Costco,
Sport's Authority, and many more). Katherine reports: “I love it. It’s cubicle free, we have
a beer fridge and we can bring our dogs to work. Very fun and very me. I spend most of
my day coding, but am surrounded by people I enjoy in a collaborative environment.”
Nicholas Tobey recently finished his thesis on HIV-tuberculosis coinfection, received
his masters in biomedical sciences at Tufts, and moved out of Boston. In August he
started med school at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn and is “excited
to continue on the path to achieving [his] dream of becoming a medical doctor!”
2005
Andrew Abrams is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York
City, planning to graduate in 2018 with a PhD in classics. He writes: “I will be
specialized in ancient history and will also have a certificate in medieval studies. I went
straight into grad school after graduating from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in
2013. I am currently living in Brooklyn, NY and have recently gotten engaged to Sara
Ahrendtsen, a classmate at Hobart and William Smith.”
Danielle Craig majored in sociology at Wesleyan with a minor in cultural, critical, and
social theory. After graduating, she reports: “I've been working as a paralegal at the
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Eventually I plan to pursue
a career either in social justice via impact litigation as an attorney, or in public policy at a
non-profit of some kind. At the moment, I am applying to various fellowships that will
give me the opportunity to work abroad next year either in humanitarian development
work or at an international criminal justice reform organization.”
Catherine DeGennaro works in the Performing Arts Department at MASS MoCA
(Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), wearing a lot of hats, which is typical at
most non-profits! She manages the office and does accounting and contract processing.
She also oversees the volunteer/usher program and works as a house manager for
shows and festivals. Catherine writes: “It's fantastic seeing all of the artists and groups
cycle through and getting an up-close look at their work. Not to mention, it is a pretty
exciting time to be at the museum and in North Adams.”
Graham Derby reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he moved this past fall
and plans to teach English as a second language, for which he is certified. He wrote
about his last year of adventures in South America: “I had an incredible year last year in
southern Chile. During the winter months of 2013 (July-September) I coached for a
Chilean free skiing club on Villarrica Volcano. The job was a huge kickstart for my
Spanish, considering the majority of my students had never skied before and I had to
talk a lot! If I was lucky I got to spend a day coaching the teenagers and we would work
on off-piste.
During the summer (October – February) I worked for one of the better recognized
tourism agencies (Kayak Chile) in the town of Pucon. For me, working at Kayak Chile
was a unique experience. I learned about tourism, handled and diffused various
situations in Spanish, had my marketing work published in Chilean magazines and on
the internet, and helped MTV film an episode for a reality TV show called “The
Challenge”. I really enjoyed the job because I also got to do all of the activities that we
sold such as class four rafting and climbing the volcano. After the season, I went to
Brazil for the World Cup -- a once in a lifetime experience.”
Chase Grogg graduated in May 2013 from Hampden-Sydney College. He kept up with
his singing all through college, acting as president of the a cappella group. He sang the
national anthem at his graduation. After graduating, Chase writes, “I got a job as an
assistant front office manager at the Grand Hyatt Washington in downtown DC. After a
year, I proposed to my girlfriend back in May 2014 and...she said yes. We moved away
from Fairfax, VA back to Williamsburg. I now work back at my old job for Seaworld
Parks and Entertainment as a supervisor at Water Country USA and Busch Gardens in
Park Operations.” Chase recently met up with the Model UN team from DDS when they
were competing down at William and Mary College.
Ace Kisch lives in Oakland after attending art college in Boston and San Francisco. He
hopes to move within the year, to Sonoma County, Colorado Springs, or back to the
Hudson Valley. Ace reports that “life is good. I'm living by myself with my dog, a three
year old blue-heeler. We are both pretty tired of living in the city and are looking forward
to moving somewhere with less cement and a backyard.”
As Lynn MacPherson studied for her GRE this past summer, she says she kept
“having flashbacks to 7th and 8th grade English.” She writes to her old English teacher:
“Seriously. I haven't gotten to the letter V yet but I'm sure ‘veritable’ will be in there and
that I will remember your exact explanation!” She claims to be “a year or two shy of
reportable news” but hopes to enter a master’s program in psychology next fall.
Currently, she works “in higher education admissions (which I like) and I also coach
rowing (which I love).”
Angela Michos finished Duke University’s paralegal program and is working in North
Carolina.
In 2013, Julian Mundy graduated from Vassar with a degree in film. He is currently
working for Federico Castelluccio (formerly of “The Sopranos”) who is making an indy
film. Julian is production assistant.
Ben Sicker lives in New York and works at Fordham University Press doing marketing
and editorial work, and “doing a bit of freelancing on the side.” Over the summer, Ben
had a remarkable travel experience he wrote to us about: “I went on an absolutely
insane vacation all around Europe: I flew into Milan, spent a week in Venice, went down
to Rome and flew over to Dubrovnik, Croatia. From there, I went to Split, Zagreb, and
the Plitvice Lakes National Park (which may legitimately be the most beautiful place on
the planet, and I'd highly recommend visiting it if you get the chance). From there, I went
up to Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, each for a few days, before flying to London.
After London, I flew to Amsterdam where I met up with my father to go to Northwestern
Spain and walk a 130-mile section of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage (though in
a purely secular fashion) over ten days. Finally, I ended the trip by spending a few days
in Holland by myself, and then a week in Belgium & Luxembourg. It was definitely
tremendous fun. While I was still in college, I traveled to Mongolia with scientists from
the Wildlife Conservation Society [?]to look for endangered white-naped cranes.”
Matt Tse sent a newsy report from Boston, catching us up on what he’s been up to
since Loomis Chaffee where he was a tri-varsity athlete, and became an Eagle Scout
with Boy Scouts of America. After a year at Dutchess Community College while he
decided his next step, Matt aimed for the biotechnology BA/MA program at Boston
University. The location, Boston, is a center for biotech industry and seemed like a good
place to be. He writes: “While attending BU, I also picked up a part-time job, working in
the IT Help Center . After three years of intense biochemistry focus, getting an
advanced degree just after graduating did not appear worthwhile for my interests and I
wanted to move away from academics. I began job searching eight months before
graduating, and as June came around, I accepted an entry-level software engineer
position at Boston Children's Hospital. I've been working there for just over a year. I
have been keeping an eye open for new opportunities that could further develop my skill
in technology and entrepreneurship.”
2006
Mark Colvin graduated last May from Syracuse University, where he was consistently
on the dean’s list, with a degree in communications and rhetorical studies. He now lives
in Mahwah, New Jersey and works in New York at the prestigious advertising company
Keep Holdings, on Park Avenue.
Adi Fracchia has moved to Washington DC where she is working on worldwide water
issues for a start-up company.
After graduating from Elon with BA in finance, Cole Reifler reports from his new life in
NYC: “I just started working at a boutique asset management and investment banking
firm called Forefront Capital in the city. I am currently working with the banking
department as well as the sales division to market and distribute unique financial
products that we have been developing. It has already been an eye-opening experience
and an incredible learning opportunity.”
2007
Ben Agrawal, while studying at Northeastern, has had several jobs, called “co-ops” in
which he puts his skills and studies to direct use. He worked last year for Amory
Engineers on projects involving water conservation efforts for cities, building hydraulic
models of distribution systems and figuring out when peak demand occurs. The goal
was to make recommendations to the water departments in these towns about when to
implement bans on unnecessary water usage, like car washing and lawn watering. In
Middleboro, Mass., Ben and his boss figured out a way to utilize different water basins
at different times of the day to mitigate environmental impact, for example on a
threatened wetland. Another project had Ben correcting a disinfection problem. He
explained all the math he had to do to figure out how to get a higher concentration of
disinfectant without actually adding more chemicals. He did a “lot of calculations to
figure out how the water would be split between old and new pipe of different lengths,
diameters and Hazen-Williams coefficients (measure of smoothness) and to figure out
volumetric flow rates.” Ben is really excited about continuing his work in “some sort of
environmental engineering” perhaps in creating “more space-efficient, water-efficient,
energy-efficient buildings, for example collecting and using rainwater and combining onsite filtration and recycling systems.”
Ryan Bhangdia was a business major with a minor in classical studies at Elon
University in North Carolina. Last year, he studied in Argentina for winter term and loved
it. He played for the club tennis team and traveled to tournaments. Over the past two
summers he has worked with the endangered Blanding turtles. He also taught tennis
clinics at Unionvale Park.
Monica Cabrera is living and working in Rhode Island where she earned her
cosmetology license at the Euphoria Institute in Lincoln. Within the next few years, she
will test and become licensed in Massachusetts.
On July 20th, 2014, Scott Carlin, DDS ’07 died tragically in a car accident in Millbrook.
Scott was beloved by all his Dutchess Day School classmates, his teachers, and
anyone who crossed his path during his three years at the school. Scott was a natural
leader, a loving person who would go out of his way to help in any circumstance. A hard
worker, whether hitting the books or plowing fields with his dad, Scott got the job done.
After Dutchess, Scott attended Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY where he was a
resident advisor, guiding the younger students. Honorable, kind, and charismatic, Scott
was a lodestone for the other boys. After graduating from TP, Scott attended Virginia
Tech. Scott will always be remembered for his beautiful grin and big bear hugs. Our
hearts go out to his family, parents Sarah and Earl Carlin, his brother Rip Carlin DDS
’04, and sister Hanna Carlin, DDS ’09.
Elisabeth Constantino is a senior at Tufts University, majoring in philosophy and
minoring in English. She reports that she is “working in a lot of the corners of the public
speaking world,” for example teaching and coaching debate at the Hotchkiss summer
program.
Gwenn Gideon is in her third year as a theater and psychology major at Bucknell
University, directing and acting and hoping to study abroad this summer in South Africa
to pursue studies in psychology.
Maggie Haas is an honors English and creative writing major at Skidmore College. She
studied in Bath with the Advanced Studies in England program with a focus on poetry.
While there she traveled to Edinburgh and St. Andrews in Scotland, Paris, London, and
Amsterdam. She also had the opportunity to study for a week at Oxford. She is currently
a senior English major at Skidmore College, writing poetry and studying under poet April
Bernard. She works at the writing center as a peer tutor and at the Skidmore barn,
where she also rides several times a week.
JB Quartararo attends Gettysburg College and will be studying abroad at the American
University in Rome.
Last spring, while at Emerson, Ryan Smythe was part of a Quidditch team that played
in the World Cup in Kissimmee, FL with eighty teams from around the world. Ryan took
that experience to DDS where he taught the 7th and 8th graders the sport. He also
played in two tournaments over the summer in Ottawa, Canada and Long Island.
He spent this past fall semester in Well, Netherlands, in Emerson College's 14th-century
medieval castle. While there he traveled to Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Edinburgh,
Dublin and other locations, and celebrated Thanksgiving in London with his parents and
sister, Denny ‘10.
2008
Christy Agrawal is a junior English major at SUNY Geneseo. Last year she had her
own radio show on the college station, and tutored a 5th grader in English. She reports:
“I have been an active member of a student-led experimental class called the Thoreau
Harding Project. I love writing (still - always), in particular poetry, and I have a website
[www.hichristyleighagrawal.wordpress.com]. I love all (most) things related to
philosophy, physics, and women's studies. And I am also in my third semester of
Japanese – and really love the language!”
Adam Baker attends Northwestern University where he majors in chemical
engineering. His freshman year, Adam and three teammates designed and built a
device for a paraplegic client. They had seven weeks to create a lightweight, portable
device that would permit her to move from the floor to a chair without assistance. His
challenging course load does not prevent him from being involved in an organization
called Engineering World Health that hosts design competitions. He continues to pursue
music, playing in a band for non-music majors.
Kayleigh Bhangdia attends Colgate University majoring in geography. She plays on
the club soccer and squash teams and works for the admissions office giving tours. She
also received a fellowship this past summer to work with the organization called Unite
for Sight and traveled to Chennai, India where she shadowed doctors performing
cataract surgeries and worked at eye screening clinics in poor villages. She collected
800 pairs of glasses which she took to India and raised over $3,000 for the organization
so they could provide free cataract surgeries for the poor. She spent about a month in
India and came back a different person. She plans to apply to the Peace Corp after
graduation and eventually work in public health.
Caleb Tuke won a scholarship from the National Security Language Initiative (a
program run by the State Department). He is one of fifteen students selected to study
Persian. His grandfather emigrated from Iran in 1958, and Caleb became even more
interested in the country and its language when his family visited in 2011. He graduated
from Hotchkiss in May of 2013 and is a freshman at Southern Methodist University.
Zoë Wilson graduated early from Elon University as a theatrical design & production
major with a minor in marketing. Zoë reports: “I am a member of Alpha Omicron Pi,
which really helped me find a family at Elon. AOII is without a doubt the best thing that
has ever happened to me. I am currently taking mostly marketing and advertising
classes and absolutely loving them. I have worked the past two summers at Burlock
Interiors, in Beacon, NY. This summer I was a junior designer, handling clients and
marketing/promotional materials as well as doing a ton of social media work for them. I
am studying Hawaiian culture and identity this January for a month as a part of an Elon
Study USA trip, and then will finish up my required credits this spring. Post college, I
hope to work in marketing or design, either in interior design or events. I am currently
applying to jobs all over the world. Sydney, Australia, London, Atlanta, Charleston, and
Charlotte are currently my top five cities of preference for post-graduation jobs.”
2009
Jonathan Hill graduated from The Gunnery in May 2013 and is currently studying
biology in the College of Science at Northeastern. He won the senior music prize at
graduation from The Gunnery and still plays guitar, bass, and keyboards in rock and
jazz bands.
Kayleigh Jones graduated from Stissing Mountain High School in the top 5th of her
class. A member of the National Honor Society, she was a member of Mock Trial for
four years and also was co-president of her class. She attends SUNY Geneseo as a
freshman.
Christian Marzullo is in his second year at George Washington University and loving it.
He is majoring in political science and minoring in Spanish. This past summer, he
interned for a hedge fund in New York, which, he reports, “was a great experience.”
This fall he is interning at a political consulting firm in DC while attending classes.
Pietro Moran continues his running career at Hillsdale College where he is a freshman.
This past summer he climbed the Italian Dolomites with his family and also worked as a
counselor at the Nike running camp in Vermont.
Corinne Olson graduated from Rhinebeck High School last June and is currently
studying public policy at SUNY Albany. She has been involved for many years in
bringing awareness to the problem of child abuse to her community. As president of the
Dutchess County Youth Council and a voting member of the Dutchess County Youth
Board, and as president of The Youth Advisory Council for the Center for the Prevention
of Child Abuse she has long championed children's causes. Last year she went to Africa
to help build an orphanage in Ghana.
Jackson Ryan is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Alabama and
enjoys attending ‘Bama football games.
TJ Sayah attends Champlain College in Burlington, VT, studying computer networking
and information as well as computer and digital forensics.
2010
Roan Gideon was asked to play Team Eire men's Lacrosse development team in the
Celtic Cup at the University of Limerick last summer, and scored two goals against the
national team from France. This fall, he tried out for the Irish men's national team tryouts
for the World Games (held in Denver next July). The World Games take place only
every 4 years so this opportunity was a great honor! He now attends Princeton
University.
Sophie Perekslis, who graduated from Berkshire in May of 2014, is a freshman at Mt.
Holyoke and plays for the varsity field hockey team. They ended the season ranked 13th
in the NEWMAC (the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference) division.
Sophie has consistently been among the top ten scorers in that conference during her
first season.
Madeleine Olson graduated from Rhinebeck High School, an active member of The
National Honors Society and member of varsity soccer, tennis and track teams. Maddie
is a member of the Dutchess County Youth Council and president of The Youth
Advisory Council for the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. With her sister,
Corinne ’09, she wrote and recorded the song "Dream Big" which raises money for The
Center. Maddie has founded a charity, The Astor Farm Fund, to educate people about
the benefits of good nutrition and sustainable farming. For three straight years she has
arranged for the emotionally and mentally handicapped children of the Astor Home in
Rhinebeck to visit Sprout Creek Farm, help farmers with chores and learn about where
their food comes from.
Sawyer Ryan graduated from Kent and is attending Pepperdine Univeristy.
Denison Smythe graduated from Suffield Academy and is attending the University of
Virginia.
2011
Erica Doyle is a senior at Millbrook School and this year is one of seven peer
counselors. As a peer counselor, Erica went to Camp Jewel with the other counselors
and all the sophomores for two days, and she will head Human Development, a
sophomore version of health class, twice a week.
In July of 2014 Erica competed on a regional pony club team at the National Pony Club
Championships in Lexington, KY. The team won the Senior C Division of Quizz, (an
unmounted, multi-phase horse management trivia test, of sorts). She and her two
teammates (one from Dover Plains and one from Rhode Island) studied hard over the
summer but still were surprised to win after three days of grueling testing. It was “quite
an experience!” She reports that she has gotten her HB certification, which is the horsemanagement portion of the B pony club rating. She is currently working on college apps
and right now Vassar is near the top of her list!
2012
Jake Bhangdia attends Arlington High. He made the varsity tennis team his freshman
year, helping the team win their division, league and conference. Jake and his
teammate, Karan Narula, teamed up for doubles in the post season and won 5 matches
to make it to States, which was the first time in 16 years that Arlington had sent a
doubles team to the state championships. They made it to the finals in the back draw
part of the tournament. Jake works at the US Open in the summers, as a ball person,
and has hopes of playing division 1 when he goes to college.
Alex Chalk, a fifth former at The Millbrook School, traveled this past summer to India to
do important work with a non-profit organization called SHED—the Society for Human
and Environmental Development, based in Mumbai. SHED, founded and largely funded
by Begum Bilkees Latif, the wife of former Governor of Maharashtra, has been working
on behalf of slum dwellers in Mumbai and surrounding areas for 25 years to improve
living conditions, and provide education, health care, family clinics, and nutritional aid
for children and pregnant mothers. Alex explained that the city is divided into
neighborhoods, each a poverty-riddled slum with its own significant issues, from HIV
and a total lack of clean water, to malnourishment, and overwhelming numbers of
immigrants from even poorer outlying areas who flood the city daily by the thousands.
He remarked on the “strong sense of community among the people. They feel hopeful
for themselves, which was inspirational, given how much they struggle.” Alex, who
traveled to India with his mother, brought large quantities of school supplies that he and
his sister, Sarah Chalk ’14, collected, and donated them to tribal areas. He had also
raised $2000.00 to take over with him. He commented that a water system for a tribe
costs $10,000.00. Alex volunteered tirelessly for nearly a month alongside SHED
workers in all the neighborhoods where the organization has a presence, and took
hundreds of incredible photographs of people and settings. While he was there, Alex
also worked on the website, and the Facebook page, and created a brochure to get the
message out about the organization. He even redesigned the logo. His commitment to
SHED has not ended and he still donates time to the organization, though he is back at
school.
2013
As a freshman, Peter Fousek made the varsity wrestling team and varsity crew team at
Salisbury, and made the first honor roll both terms. This year, as a sophomore, Peter is
running for student government.