Alumnae | CLASS NOTES
Adrienne Lucier ’90
On the Waves of Global Finance No two days are even close to identical for Adrienne Lucier ’90. In the volatile world of global investment, Lucier serves as a Managing Director in fixed-income credit project at Credit Suisse, leading international financial services company headquartered in Zurich, where she began her career in 2000 after earning an MBA at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. “I enjoy the complexities of deal-making in a challenging global marketplace, where every investment decision can be influenced by a countless number of macroeconomic factors,” said Luctheir careers. ier, who was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as Despite her demanding schedule, she always a Woman of Note for 2015. seeks ways to balance her work life and her personal “In addition, many specific credit and individual life. She enjoys golf, tennis, Pilates, ballet, photogracompany factors play a role in determining relative phy, travel, cooking and interior design. She also value. No two days are the same and increased vola- enjoys stints as an adjunct teacher of classes in small tility creates multiple business opportunities. Facing business and brand management, and bond and capinstitutional clients and developing lasting trading ital markets. relationships is also paramount.” Lucier said there were many types of leaders during Lucier, who graduated from Franklin and Marshall her years at Agnes Irwin, as well as many different College with dual bachelor degrees in economics and types of success, which one could see even at a young French and a minor in art history, considers her big- age. “It became apparent early on that there are many gest achievement to date to be how quickly she has different roads to take to get to the same finish point. risen in the ranks in a business dominated by men. Being open to different ways of thinking in order to She said it is “a rarity” for a woman to achieve results was something that was advance to senior status as quickly as she ingrained in me not only in my home life has, and credits the values she developed growing up, but at AIS,” she said. at Agnes Irwin for her success. She has many fond memories of her ‘‘I enjoy the “It underscores the importance of AIS school years, including the special complexity working hard, doing something you are days set aside for celebrating the move of dealpassionate about, and believing in yourfrom Lower School to Middle School, making in self. Each achievement creates more and Middle School to Upper School, AP opportunities, despite the fact that they history classes and AP English classes. “I the global may not be apparent at the time,” said would be remiss if I left out the photogmarket.” Lucier, who finds it rewarding to mentor raphy shows,” she quipped. other young women as they embark on — Wanda Odom
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sorry to be missing our 55th, but it’s trumped by our first grandchild’s graduation. Have a wonderful time together – girls of the Class of ‘60!” Christine Carlisle Blair ’65
is living a retired life with her husband, Carrick, in Redding, CT, after raising two children who are now in their 40s. She spent 25 years working in public relations at a major pharma company and currently keeps busy with local women’s clubs, golf, tennis, traveling and summering on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Jacqueline Earle-Cruickshanks ’65 worked as a
learning specialist/school psychologist in upstate New York and moved to Vermont in 2000. She became a learning specialist/senior diagnostician for 20 years for Stern Center in Williston, VT. Her husband, Paul, died in 2012, and she married an old friend in 2013. After she retired, she became an archetypal dream analyst. She has two children and one grandchild. She is living in Montpelier, VT, and loves working on other people’s (and her own) dreams. Marian Godfrey Gardner ’65 writes, “In November
2007, I married Tom Gardner at our farm in Richmond, MA, in Berkshire County; it is a first marriage for both of us. Tom runs his family business, the Gardner Pie Company in Akron, OH, from the farm, where he pursues his long-time interest in heritage breeds of both livestock