Jerome Glowacki ’15 is pursuing a Business Administration degree at the Richard Ivey School of Business, in London, Ontario. Conrad Ma ’15 is majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina. Conrad is a Morehead-Cain Scholar and says he has benefitted from the Morehead-Cain network of alumni; in fact, one of these contacts took him to California’s Bay Area for an internship with domain and web hosting company GoDaddy during the summers after his sophomore and junior years.
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Connor Graeber ’16 has found his voice, literally, in the past several months and was poised to try out for the reality TV show “America’s Got Talent” on December 15 in his hometown of Charlotte. Connor recently declared his major in Communication.
Kiffen Loomis ’16 is Co-Chief Investment Officer for Black Diamond Capital. Based at Harvard University, Black Diamond Capital Investors is one of the largest and most successful student-run hedge funds in the United States. Black Diamond Capital actively recruits and selects Harvard students who possess strong investing acumen. Kiffen is a junior studying Applied Mathematics: Economics.
Jake Johnson ’17 was on a whirlwind international adventure this fall. Accompanied by friends, the Christ School alum and Dartmouth College sophomore attempted to visit as many as 10 different countries in 24 days. Jake spent Thanksgiving atop a camel in Morocco. Later, he and a friend named Spencer walked almost 10 hours across the country of Andorra. Johnson will be uploading videos from the journey, now and into the coming weeks, to his YouTube channel, Nxt Adventure.
Anthony Vaglica ’15 (pictured left) is right where he’s meant to be, both with baseball and life. After spending the 2016 season at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Vaglica transferred to a college in his home state of New York. Long Island University Post is about a half-hour outside of where the Vaglica family lives in Franklin Square, NY. He was named the Most Valuable Player of July’s Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game.
2018
2016 Devon Johnson ’16 studied abroad in Madrid, Spain, for the entirety of his fall semester at the University of North Carolina. The Morehead-Cain Scholar is double-majoring in Public Policy and Sociology.
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
Mason Blevins ’16 was recognized for his leadership at Auburn University as the recipient of the Auburn University Interfraternity Council 2018 IFC Chapter President of the Year, Mason has been president of his fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) the past two years. He recently was elected as Vice President of Risk Management for the Auburn University Interfraternity Council for the 2019 year. Congratulations to Mason! Zak Lintz ’16 is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, majoring in Computer Science. Before he returned to his studies in Chapel Hill, Lintz made his first trip to New York’s Yankee Stadium in August.
Christ School alumnus Julian Smith ’16, who went on to college at VMI, said he has fulfilled a lifelong goal: he has signed on to become a military officer following his graduation in 2020.
2017
Joey Cinque ’17 was recently named the Newcomer of the Year for all sports at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. He also garnered a spot on the Sunshine State Conference's AllFreshman Lacrosse Team after leading the Tars in goals (30). Joey wrapped up their season April 26, 2018 with a 7-7 overall record. Will Iorio ’17 spent the summer aboard Eagle, the flagship of the Coast Guard Academy, sailing around the Caribbean and Central America. On the lacrosse field, Iorio had 24 goals and 21 assists for the Bears last season and was their Team Rookie of the Year. With a play on his last name, the Coast Guard referred to Iorio as its “Cookie Guy” in a recent social media post.
Brothers as Greenies, and now Tigers: former Christ School roommates Joe deLoach ’18 and Lawrence Freeman ’18 caught up over lunch at Clemson University, where both have begun their freshman year.
Mrs. Mahoney treated some of her former advisees and students to lunch in Chapel Hill. Sam Lemel ’18, Bronson Gatts ’18, Luke Brazinski ’18, Vance Stiles ’17 and John Hunter ’17.