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ATHLETICS UPDATE An amazing year in sports
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Dream job – and a road trip – for 2011 grad
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Ryan Letourneau ’11 has landed a job with Delhaize Group, an international food retailer based in Brussels, Belgium.
n September, International Business graduate Ryan Letourneau will begin his professional career and realize his dream – to work for an international company. Letourneau is one of just 10 people from around the world selected to participate in the International Graduate Training Program with Delhaize Group, a food retailer based in Brussels, Belgium, with 2,800 stores on three continents. It’s the first time that Delhaize has selected Americans to participate in the training program, now in its second year. Letourneau, who lives in Holden, MA, will spend six months as a store manager in one of Delhaize’s U.S. locations; six months working on a corporate project in Greece, Romania, Thailand, or the United Kingdom; and finally six
months in Belgium at Delhaize’s international headquarters. At the end of the program, he will be placed in a corporatelevel management position. This summer, he and a friend plan to backpack through four countries in South America. Letourneau’s appetite for learning about different cultures was whetted during a Sophomore International Experience trip to Panama, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. He visited Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina when he studied at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Valparaíso in Chile during the fall semester of his sophomore year, opting to live with a Chilean family to better immerse himself in the country’s day-to-day continued on page 8
A semester at the museum
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s a spring semester intern in Washington, D.C., Caroline Barletta (Valley Cottage, NY) was assigned to the “Pentagon Project.” The junior history major’s work did not involve topsecret defense plans, but it was connected to the world’s premier naval power – the United States Navy. As a Curatorial Intern for the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Barletta collaborated with historians and designers to write captions and find suitable images to commemorate the Navy’s active fleets for an exhibit in the Pentagon, which has 23,000 employees and hosts 100,000 visitors annually. She helped to set up museum activities throughout the city, assisted with educational programs for young children, wrote a grant proposal for the museum’s Cold War Gallery, and worked on promotional materials for the commemoration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812 –
to name just a few of her responsibilities. The close bonds that Barletta had developed with her Bryant professors helped her easily transition to working with historians and other professional staff at the museum. “I have formed such great relationships with my professors,” says Barletta. “They are motivated and constantly trying to push their students into positions of advancement. Each professor, in his or her own way, made my success in D.C. possible.” When she first began looking at colleges, Barletta was impressed by Bryant’s beautiful campus, but she also knew that small class sizes would allow her to get to know the faculty. A myriad of networking opportunities and a robust study-abroad program sealed the deal – and she chose Bryant. It’s a decision she’s glad she made. continued on page 8
Caroline Barletta ’12 in the submarine exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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