CLASS NOTES
(Brown grad with a master’s from Oxford) on September 20, 2014 in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard. They honeymooned in Peru, and are living in Newport, RI. ▪ Alix Reilley reports, “I am a residence counselor at Nashua Children’s Home.” ▪ Stacie Foote Umperovitch married Zach Umperovitch on October 25, 2014. (see page 59)
2007
Drew Moerlein ’04 and his bride, Adrienne.
a non-profit, Education Pioneers, that links grad students with K-12 schools where they can bring their real world expertise to the good of education. She was married on June 13 in Beverly, MA. ▪ Kim Cohen Neil reports, “I married my Colby sweetheart (Christopher Neil) in Maine in 2013—fellow Derryfield alums Amanda Kutz, Heather Schofield, and Christina Nyquist were in attendance. A little over a year later (November 2014), we welcomed our first child, a beautiful baby boy Griffin Dyer Neil. We’re currently located in Rhode Island, where I’m a graduate student at Brown University working on my Ph.D. in biology.” ▪ Alan Raff graduated from Suffolk Law and passed the Massachusetts Bar. ▪ Leslie Stonebraker has become the social media guru for an internet startup in New York City.
2006
Samantha Mastrogiacomo is engaged! She is getting married in October 2015 to Steven Rolecek (who attended Derryfield through ninth grade!). ▪ Congratulations to Nicole Nijhuis Tourtellot and her husband, Will, whose first baby, Madison Grace, was born on June 22. ▪ Rachel Romanowsky (Trinity grad) married Colin Keogh of Greenwich, CT,— 58
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Natalie Coviello reports, “I graduated from BU with my Doctor of Physical Therapy. I’m currently living in Boston and working at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Woburn with stroke and traumatic brain injury patients. Strange to be in the real world after so many years of school, but I love my job.” ▪ Nguyen Doan is working at Northeastern University and just finished NU’s MBA program. ▪ Patrick Gaffney is working as an Account Development Manager at Forrester Research in Cambridge within their Premiere Accounts division. ▪ Taylor Krause is working at Rue La La in Boston. ▪ Dakyung Lee reports, “I am currently living in Korea, got married in 2013, and my husband and I are expecting our first child this September.” ▪ Duke Logan is working at Motus in Product Management. ▪ Jackson MacKenzie is living in Boston and recently published a book. ▪ Kristie Migliori is working as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Child Health Services in Manchester, NH.
2008
Molly Cikacz is a fourth grade teacher at the Hosmer School in Watertown, MA. ▪ After receiving his master’s of science in physician assistant studies, Than Moore has been teaching for the Bay Path University Physician Assistant Program in Longmeadow, MA. He recently accepted a new position to begin work as a Physician Assistant in the emergency department at the University of Vermont Medical Center and will be moving up to Burlington, VT soon! ▪ Audrey Morgan attended the Culinary Institute of America, and is now living in Chicago where she helps run a dinner prep company. ▪ Danielle Potter reports, “I recently received my Doctorate in physical therapy from Quinnipiac University! I
am currently working at Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital in Salem, NH as an outpatient physical therapist. I am working with a variety of patients with different diagnoses ranging from stroke, back pain, total joint replacements, and sports injuries. So far, it has been an amazing experience, and I am looking forward to continuing to learn and become a better physical therapist.”
2009
Mickey Cunliffe is living in Tianjin, China and teaching. ▪ Kat DiPastina is starting her rounds at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathic Medicine. ▪ Lydia MacKenzie works in New York City as an event planner for a financial company. ▪ Sean O’Reilly has moved to Rhinelander, WI, where he works at Regal Beloit as an Application Engineer. ▪ In 2014, Gavin Slusher completed a 2,660 mile, 5 month thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. ▪ Sandra Stonebraker is enlightening the minds of Boston area high school students as a math teacher. ▪ After graduating from UVM, Finn Westbrook set a course to expand his horizons, see some sights, and meet new people. He biked from Bar Harbor, ME to the Bronx to meet up with brother Tucker Westbrook ’10. He was joined by Drew Mokas and Eli Mokas ’11 for one of the wettest days of the trip. His next venture was a fund raising drive for the ALS Family Charitable Foundation in honor of his grandmother. He rode an 8,000 mile solo cross country ride (NH-FL-CA-WA) and raised close to $10k. He now is working in a mountain side ski shop in Alta, UT. In between his adventures, Finn works for S & W Sports shop in Concord, NH.
2010
Brandan Rivard is now working in the Big Apple! ▪ Jesse Stephens was asked to speak and present her research at the Issues in Political Economy conference for Campaign Contributions in the 2012 Congressional Elections in New York City! This was on her original research that she did for statistics and economics. ▪ Brandon Wilson recently began teaching physics at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY.