ALUMNI CLASS NEWS
Message from Legion, CSSAA, and CCI Presidents We are pleased to share this brief update of the Culver Legion, Summer Schools Alumni Association, and Culver Clubs International initiatives and activities in recent months, and to provide you upcoming event dates for which you can “mark your calendars.” In early March a triennial review of the Alumni office was conducted by visitors from two leading institutions, Cranbrook School (Michigan) and Centre College (Kentucky). This follows on the 2014 review by Advancement leaders from Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover Academies. Your respective alumni associations received high praise for their exceptional enthusiasm and support, both moral and material, of the Academies and Summer Schools & Camps. In the coming months, there will be considerable emphasis placed on more effective communication coordination with you, especially with regard to social media, but also in all print and e-mail publications. Additionally, we will keep expanding opportunities for you to engage with Culver. Anna Kantzer Wildermuth ’83 President The Culver Legion N. Merritt Becker N ’83 President The Culver Summer Schools Alumni Association Meg Dinwiddie Burk L ’89, ’91 President Culver Clubs International
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a speaker on the subject, as well as a founder and the former chair of ChiPy, the Chicago Python users group. In the interview, Brian notes that, in years past, he “could be found hacking away…on the Apple Macintosh computers donated to Culver in the early ’90s. I took that knowledge for profit while enjoying a fruitful career in programming for the past 22 years.” He manages a Data Science team at professional services network, Deloitte, and recently purchased a bed and breakfast in Chicago called The Greenleaf House. Jarrod Hirschfeld ’99 and his wife, Erin, welcomed baby Alessa Franklin Hirschfeld last April. She joins big sister Adelle Elizabeth Hirschfeld, born in 2010. The Hirschfelds live in Sylvania, Ohio.
Rocco “Rocky” Carbone III ‘04 and and Jackie Sitjar ‘04 graduated from the United States Air Force Judge Advocate Staff Officer Course (JASOC) at Maxwell Air Force Base, where they were not only in the same class but also were in the same flight of students. They are now fully qualified to practice law in the Judge Advocate General Corps. At the time of graduation, Rocky was assigned to the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Jackie was assigned to Seymour Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
2000s Álvaro Arzú Escobar ’02 was elected president of the Congress of Guatemala in January. Arzú, whose father, Álvaro Arzú, is mayor of Guatemala City (where Arzú ’02 also lives), said in his first message as president that he hopes to work with political opponents to make Congress an institution of which citizens feel “proud and represented.” Elizabeth Price W ’97, ’02 has authored a chapter focusing on geriatric trauma care in orthopedic fractures in a book being published by American College of Surgeons, “Trauma Quality Improvement Program, Guidelines on Geriatric Trauma
Katie Barnes W ’02, ’09 was the featured speaker at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Culver in January. A writer for ESPNW and featured in several other publications, Barnes — who today lives in Hartford, Connecticut — is the daughter of Culver Academies instructors Mitch and Cory Barnes. Addressing students, Barnes challenged them to consider the legacy of Dr. King and others involved in movements to raise awareness of the rights of those not belonging to the privileged class in America, noting that, “Constructive dialogue demands that we set aside competitive notions of winning and losing and engage in good faith.”