Class Captains H. Jett Fein Bentley J. Rubinstein Torey A. Van Oot Harry Ashforth is living in San Francisco and working in commercial real estate. Stuart Berkeley graduated from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and is moving back to Washington, DC, to start as a consultant with Accenture in October. “I had a very exciting beginning of the year when our documentary Inocente won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short!” says Alexandra Blaney. “I was the associate producer for the film and I’m also the director of marketing and production at the non-profit film production company Shine Global, based in New York. Our next documentary, which we hope to finish by this fall, is in 3D and tells the story of a BMX bike club in inner city London and their journey off the streets and to the world championships. We’re also developing a film about child trafficking and a television show about social entrepreneurs, so it has been very busy but a lot of fun and I do get to see some of my Deerfield friends in the city!” Cassie Buckhart wrote in after visiting Caroline Woodworth at her new home in London: “Caroline and I had a great time traveling around Europe together. We signed every guestbook we could with ‘Deerfield ’05’ as
an entry (note: you can also find Deerfield ’05 guest book sign-ins throughout parts of Beijing and Hong Kong, and potentially somewhere in Las Vegas).” This fall Cassie is moving to Paris to complete her final year of graduate school for an MFA in furniture design. “Last year I received my Master’s of Education from the Harvard School of Education, and I’m having a great time putting it to work,” says Rachel Cohen. “I’m currently living in Cambridge, MA, with my boyfriend, and teaching ninth grade reading at a charter high school in Lynn, MA. It has been great to live near friends and family, and I hope to stay in MA for at least one more year.” “I moved out of NYC and am currently living in Kuala Lumpur, working for a startup e-commerce company based throughout SE Asia,” reports Lizzie Craft. “Come visit!” Zachary DeWitt says: “After two great years living and working in San Francisco, I’m heading back to Boston this fall to attend Harvard Business School.” Julia di Bonaventura is living in Boston and working in career awareness and job readiness with under-served and under-resourced youth in the city. “Since finishing my master’s at the University of Chicago two years ago, I’ve been working as a community organizer for Mercy Housing,” reports Laura Eberly. “Recently earned my LCSW license and, even better, the
title of ‘wonderful troublemaker’ from my tenants. Feel free to look me up if you’re in the Windy City and in search of bike routes, local beer, or the original slam poetry scene. Peace!” Annie Gibbons reports, “I’m going on three years of working for Bluewolf, a technology consulting firm, based in NYC. Last December I moved to NYC from San Francisco, but continue to travel to Denver during the weekdays for work.” Taft Huffard, aka Captain Deerfield ’05, is working for American Giant in San Francisco, while also rallying the Captain Deerfield lineage to stage a coup. When we last heard from Eric Lanser he reported, “I am moving to New York this summer to start my MBA at Columbia Business School.” Mari Silipo is living with “great friends” in Cambridge (including Mary Adair ’04) and “loving life in Boston.” Mari is working in sales and recruitment for a start-up called TurningArt, a Bostonbased e-commerce website and service that aims to make more artwork more accessible to more people. “Check it out TurningArt.com!” Mari says. “Getting home to visit Coach as often as I can and psyched to celebrate his 200th football career win this season. Go Big Green!” “I moved back to NYC after two years on the West Coast to work as COO of a clothing company my friends (who I met through Chris Kempner ’04) started called Faherty
Brand,” reports Peter Tufo. At the time he added, “I’m excited to have a big group of DA interns: Will Hess ’12, Brooke DeWitt ’12, Charlie Pasciucco ’13, Mollie Laverack ’11, Charlotte Dewey ’11, and Olivia Koufakis ’11 helping out throughout the summer.”
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Class Captain Kevin C. Meehan Please send us your news and notes! See page 64.
2007
Class Captains Matthew McCormick Carney Elizabeth Conover Cowan Jennifer Ross Rowland Mollie Ewing says: “Grace McEniry, Steve Kemp, Chico Hulburd, and I are all neighbors (our apartments are all within walking distance to one another) in Denver, CO. Grace is working at an architecture firm, Steven and Chico are working on geological projects, and I am a clinician with the mentally ill. Beautiful weather and good times in the mountains!”
2008
Class Captains Sarah Helen Brim Robert Haldane Swindell Please send us your news and notes! See page 64.
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