class notes alumni Brandon Warstler is a corrections officer for the Maine Department of Corrections. He and Erin married on January 1, 2011 and bought a home in Dover-Foxcroft. Jeremy Watts is working at The Brewer’s Apprentice, a brew-on-premises/home brew supply store, in Freehold, N.J. He plans to become a professional brewer. Luke Wroblewski owns an English academy and art gallery in El Penol, near Medelin, Columbia. He is writing a book on the life story of a friend’s participation in gang and drug warfare in the poor neighborhoods of Medelin. 09 Mickey DiPesa works at Johnny’s Selected Seeds in the research department. She lives in Unity. Andrew Durgin works as a corrections officer for the Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Department and part-time as a police officer for the Old Orchard Beach Police Department. Bradley Eklund owns Entwood Crafts, making wooden puzzles, and a landscaping business. He recently joined an artist co-op where he sells his work in a fine arts gallery. He and Hazel have a son. Ryan Feener lobsters in Spruce Head and bought a house in Owls Head. He recently traveled through Italy. Jake Harr is a technical service engineer for Remcal Products Corporation in Warrington, Penn. He is upgrading his U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license to a masters license. In 2010 he became a certified sustainable building advisor, and became a certified tree tender through the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Andrea Heim is a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica. She has worked with a farmer’s group, on organic gardening, teaching, building and organizing a solar dryer, and worked with community, government and non-government organizations. Alexander Koch runs an online record label, releasing experimental folk and ambient music. Julie Kozak is in the Peace Corps until May 2013, as a community environmental development volunteer in the Dominican Republic. Jennifer Lane works for Think Pacific in Fiji, leading 10-week trips for gap year volunteers who experience the culture and help build projects in needy villages. Michael Lewis is an environmental chemist at Connecticut Testing Labs in Meriden, Conn. Dana Mark works as the outdoor classroom instructor during the school year and leads wilderness trips during the summer for Chewonki. This summer she will lead the Boat Builders Expedition; building wooden kayaks at the Wooden Boat School in Brooklyn for two weeks, and sea kayaking from Chewonki to Mount Desert. Quentin McKinley is a seasonal park ranger for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Rec-
reation at Woodford State Park in Bennington, Vt. Kelli Meyer will earn her RN in May and her master’s in the fall at the University of New Hampshire. She and Andy Walker married on August 13, 2011, and honeymooned in Iceland. They plan to go to Nepal and Southeast Asia in November. Brent O’Brien is a machinist for New Hampshire Ball Bearing, Astro Division which makes astrospace bearings. He and his partner have a daughter. Andrew Smart is a Maine game warden in the Clayton Lake district. Jill Travisano returns for her fourth year in a seasonal job with the Raptor Trust, a bird rehabilitation center in Basking Ridge, N.J. In the winter she is a kennel technician at Toms River Animal Hospital and an animal health technician at the Ocean County Animal Shelter. She is enrolled in an online vet tech program at San Juan College. Danielle (Warner) Cilley owns a landscape company with her father. Andrew ‘09 is working at Cabelas in fishing.
Felicia (Medeiros) Mahoney and John married on September 18, 2010. She is an off track betting pari mutuel teller at Hollywood Slots Hotel and Raceway in Bangor. John is the shift leader at the Bangor Blockbusters. Justin Oser completed his master’s course to get a captains license giving him a Masters License for a Motor or Steam Vessel not over 100 gross tons in near coastal waters. Elyse Porter, at Unity from 2006-08, graduated from Plymouth State University with a bachelors of science in psychology with a special focus on mental health. This fall, she plans to begin earning a graduate degree in school counseling at Plymouth State University. Cailan Yorton is working in a day care center. She lives with Josh Miller ’10. 11 Kate Aucoin is a park ranger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Peterborough, N.H. In September 2011 she started graduate school at the University of Southern New Hampshire. Rosita Ayala is an admissions counselor at Unity College.
10 Ethan Buuck married Vanessa Martin August 6, 2011. A Maine game warden in Aroostook County, he participated on the Admission alumni panel for potential Unity students in 2011. Devin Case is finishing his animal care internship at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb. Jonathan Cooper has a six-month position as a national park ranger at the Fort Union Trading Post Historic Site in western North Dakota. Jessica Curtis is a carnivore keeper at the Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Ark. She works with bears, lions, and tigers. Shilo Cushman is a veterinary assistant at Windsor Veterinary Clinic in Windsor, Maine, and is enrolled in the vet tech program at the University College of Bangor. Tim Dorsey is a field instructor with Second Nature, a wilderness therapy program in Utah. Chris Gerhard, a registered Maine Guide, has his degree in adventure education and leadership. He works year-round for the River Source Rafting Company in Montana, guiding raft trips and dog sled adventures. Lincoln Holt is a member of the farm crew at Sparrow Arc Farm in Unity from May to November, and works in Montana the rest of the year. Dan Kinch is a California Condor internship biologist for the Coastal Humane Society. Michael Lagueux is a corrections officer at the Maine State Prison in Warrren. He is married and lives in Rockland. Jennifer McClain works in a new hotel/casino in Las Vegas, and plans to enroll in a performing arts school.
Rob Bentley ’11, logistics coordinator at Camp Marston in Julian, California.
Rob Bentley has a full-time seasonal job as a logistics coordinator at Camp Marston in Julian, Calif. He is working on a trail marking and restoration process and is helping in the mountain biking and rock climbing teen program. James Benvenuti was sworn in as a game warden with the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game in June 2011. Meredith Collins is a night security park ranger at Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham, N.H. Ryan Falkenham has a summer position as assistant harbor master on Cape Cod.
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