the Peace Corps and will leave in March 2010. Banks Boutte writes, “I’ve been trying to get as much perspective on the film industry as a whole as possible. Currently I’m working for Benderspink Productions (‘A History of Violence,’ ‘Butterfly Effect,’ ‘American Pie,’ ‘Final Destination,’ and ‘The Ring’). I’ve also worked on the set of ‘Nip/Tuck’ and for UDK Casting (‘CSI,’ ‘Dexter,’ ‘Nip/Tuck,’ ‘Mentalist,’ ‘Saving Grace,’ etc.) I’ve been acting a bit, too, though I’m more drawn to producing, it’s so much more proactive. I’ve acted in a bunch of films, the last one I produced, and I’ve been developing about 10 other projects with different people. One of which, I actually heard today, just got the bulk of its budget and will probably get green-lit for this spring. It would be my first feature, and we’d shoot it on 16mm film (the same thing as ‘The Wrestler’). I’m still in college, taking nighttime film production classes at UCLA.” David Wang is about to graduate from Duke after majoring in math and economics. Occasionally he sees Zach Chesson at UNC. Last summer he put his degree to use and worked on Wall Street at an investment bank trading foreign exchange derivatives. They hired him to go back, and, luckily, he still has a job for next year after everything that has happened! Tyler Clark graduated from the University of South Carolina last May with a political science degree. He spent the summer in between Montauk, N.Y., and Columbia, S.C. He worked for Arnold & Porter LLP, a law firm in D.C., for a few months last fall while applying to law schools. He then spent some time in Vail, Colo., breathing in the thin mountain air. He made his way back to Columbia, where he works two days a week at a small law firm, tutors people signed up to take the LSAT, and generally entrenches himself in the
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“community.” In August, Tyler is moving back to D.C. to start classes at GW law school. After EHS, Erin Burke took a year off. She first went to the Dominican Republic with Megan Coolidge for a month and then traveled around Australia and New Zealand for nearly six months. During three of those months, she worked in the deep Outback on a cattle ranch, which was pretty wild. Since then she has been at JMU studying international affairs with a focus on Latin America and Spanish. Last semester she went abroad to Buenos Aires and did some amazing traveling throughout Argentina. She plans to work towards graduation and an internship/job in D.C. this summer. Megan Coolidge writes, “I took a year off after EHS and spent three months in the Dominican Republic, came home and worked for a few months, and then got on a plane and headed to Madrid with practically no plan of what I was going to do. It ended up being a great three months of studying Spanish and traveling throughout Spain. I still have another year at William and Mary and am majoring in international relations and Hispanic studies. I spent this past summer in Honduras working with a few other students and a professor from Mary Washington to develop a non-profit microfinance institution. We just returned this winter break and extended our first round of 13 loans. Actually, when I was down there this summer we had a group of volunteers come down and one was an EHS grad (Myles Eglevsky ’98) and another volunteer had graduated from WFS (Andy Fitch)... what a small world. I also spoke to Tommy Clark ’03 a couple times, because he is currently doing Peace Corps in another area of Honduras. This semester I’m heading to Buenos Aires, so if anyone is headed south, let me know! I’m thinking about going to law school to do international law after college.”
notes
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Lynne Farmer-Hoisington, wife of EHS faculty member Jeff Hoisington and mother of Tim ’05 and Zach ’06, on March 7, 2009. A memorial service was held in Callaway Chapel on March 11, as community members gathered to remember this special woman.
Alexandra Varipapa is finishing up at Richmond this semester with a journalism major and a Spanish and art history minor. She took an Oxford seminars class to get certified to teach abroad. She is applying to jobs in South America and in Europe, specifically Argentina, Chile, and Italy. Ellie Frazier spent the summer abroad in India studying Himalayan Buddhist art and architecture. She is graduating from U.Va. in May, where she is majoring in photography and anthropology and minoring in art history. She is applying to the Peace Corps as well as teaching jobs abroad for next year. Gabe Jones earned All-ODAC Conference Honorable Mention recognition as a member of the Randolph-Macon College football team. Colin Lockhart is finishing up his last year at the Air Force Academy, where he plays lacrosse, and then will be headed off to pilot training in August! I think that is everything! We had a great response this time! Thanks to everyone.
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Margaret von Werssowetz vonwemr0@sewanee.edu and Jack Pitney john.pitney@trincoll.edu 5th Reunion: June 2011
Hey everyone! I hope this edition of class notes finds everyone doing well. I am back at Sewanee for the Easter semester after spending the fall abroad. Kiki McCaslin and I both participated in Classical European Studies, a Sewanee and Rhodes program that led us from summer in Sewanee to Lincoln College in Oxford and then to Greece, Turkey, and Italy, studying ancient Greece and Rome. At the end of our trip we met up with Miller Cornelson in London for a few days. Miller was spending his fall at St. Andrews in Scotland with one of our other Sewanee friends. After returning from abroad, I stayed at home in Charleston until the start of this semester. I saw many EHS people around town, including Caitlin Dirkes, Katharine Pelzer, and Dina Clay. Caitlin is enjoying her transfer to College of Charleston and living in a house with some other girls from New York. Katharine took a semester off from Chapel Hill in the fall and was living at home, working for Linda Ketner’s campaign and nannying among other things. She is now back at school for the spring. Dina is still loving CofC, and I always seem to run into her at the Mexican restaurant where she works, Juanita Greenberg’s. Over New Year’s, I went to the Bahamas with Kingsley Trotter, Sarah Montz, Molly Wheaton, Bess Trotter ’09, and Bridgette Ewing ’09. We had a great time. Kingsley, recently returned from a semester in France, even managed to tear herself away from the “Twilight” books long enough to pay attention to me. After New Year’s, Sarah set out for a semester in Sevilla, Spain, where she may even meet up with good ol’ Kate McKenna. Back at W&L with Mason Tillett and Fletcher Dunn, Molly is addicted to Rock Band and blogging, and she is planning to visit Sarah in Spain over SB2k9.
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