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While on a spring Leadership Training trip in May, Assistant Outing Club Director Becca Austin ’10 and a group of students crossed paths with six alumnae on a ‘wild women weekend’ near Bethel. Top row, (l to r): Cameron Adams ’14, Erica Berry ’14, Anne Pendergast Western ’77, Ben Livingston ’13, Kyle Werner ’13, Jess Caron ’13, and Lucy Lee LaCasse ’80. Middle row: Anne Fernald Niles ’77 (black shirt with reflective zipper), Anne Page Jones ’77, Amelia Campbell ’13, and Elena Crosley ’13. Front row: Lydia Singerman ’13, Conny Clough Graft ’77, Polly Arnoff Hyde ’77, and Becca.
Tommy Wilcox ’09 Hometown: Philadelphia Current residence: Washington, D.C.
(left to right): Lauren Coven ’10, Courtney Lapierre ’09, Alison Coleman ’09, Jessica Paris ’09, Jamie Paul ’10, Kate Chin ’08, Kelly Overbye ’09, Danielle Chagnor ’06, and Julia Jacobs ’10 made it back to campus for Homecoming last October.
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For news of Becca Austin, see Class of 1977 and accompanying photo. Caitlin Beach, Sarah Marston and Marissa Moore “ran the SemiMarathon de Paris on March 6, 2011.” See accompanying photo. Keri Forbringer and “Catherine Jager ’09 are both Fulbright Scholarship recipients in Austria.” See accompanying photo. Steven Thomas “has lived in Phang Nga, Thailand, since June 9, 2010, and he teaches English in the remote village. He is continuing his Princeton in Asia Fellowship.” See accompanying photo.
Web: www.AnsoniaWines.com Gchat: ansoniawines Twitter: @AnsoniaWines Role: I run the Washington, D.C. part of our business, selling to restaurants and retail customers through our store. My father runs the importing side of the business. Ansonia Wines is just the two of us, so we both do a bit of everything. A typical day: Mornings are usually spent working on content for our Ansonia Wines Direct (online) offers – we design a page on our website, an email, and a handout for each offer. I’m on the phone quite a bit with my father to discuss strategy and importing details. Some days I conduct a tasting with sommeliers, or make deliveries to their restaurants. In the afternoons and evenings I work from the store, mostly packing the next day’s shipments, handselling bottles, and helping customers pick up wine they’ve ordered online.
Next steps: Since we introduced Ansonia Wines Direct in March, our online sales have really taken off. We’re now shipping all over the country, and will soon be increasing the frequency of our email offers. We’re adding to the number of states we can ship to, and hope to develop the New England market this fall. We’re also starting to experiment with getting QR [quick response] codes onto our bottles to enhance our customers’ experience. Favorite trip: We go over to France twice a year to taste with the producers. They’re very busy trips (20 to 30 wines a day), but it’s the good kind of busy. Favorite Bowdoin memory: Taking the stage with the Longfellows. Favorite Color: Red (wine and the Phillies). Best food-wine pairing: Roasted pigeon and Michel Gros’s 1999 VosneRomanée 1er Cru. (But it’s hard to beat a young Chianti Classico with Rose Begonia from Scarlet B’s.)
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