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ship, held in St. Louis, MO, in April, and 24 participate in the eliminations. Though the team lost the world championship during the quarter finals, during the last two seasons it has won 13 awards combined for their robot performance, outreach of STEM to disadvantaged urban kids, and programming prowess. Incredibly, three of the top 15 teams in the world are located in Lexington and Lincoln. In this year’s Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards competition, Jalen Winstanley won an Honorable Mention for painting.
There’s No Place Like Home! Thomas Wolfe may have said that you can’t go home again, but eleven Fenn alumni would disagree. All of them are working in some capacity at the School: Jon Byrd ’76 has taught in the Lower School for thirty years; Nat Carr ’97, who teaches science and coaches football and lacrosse, will assume the position of head of the Lower School this fall, having served as director of secondary school counseling since 2009; Jim Carter ’54 can be found volunteering up in the archives room in Mulvany, scanning piles of photos from Fenn’s history and reaching out to former faculty and students for help in identifying alumni in the images; Geoffrey Cohane ’93 (not pictured) is the School’s consulting clinical psychologist; Frank Crowley ’06 (not pictured) joined the community a year ago as assistant athletic director; Alexei Doohovskoy ’91 teaches trombone and baritone horn and served as the Marching Band backup director this spring; Tory Hayes ’02 works as assistant director of admissions; Freemon Romero ’04 teaches Spanish and coaches; Ben Smith ’85 has been teaching in the Lower School for nineteen years; Jeff Trotsky ’06, is an assistant director of admissions and a science teacher; and Matt Ward ’00 is a social studies teacher and a coach.
Alux Tung ’16 playing at a Lexington High School ensemble
2016 Alumni Class Senators Owen Elton owen.elton@me.com Kevin Gao 666666kevingao@gmail.com William Locke wlocke2000@comcast.net
As a new Lexington High School freshman, Alex Tung auditioned for and was accepted into the LHS Jazz Combo and its larger Jazz Ensemble; he was the only freshman to be part of either of these groups this year. He was also accepted into the Wind Ensemble, LHS’s most advanced band. This winter Alex auditioned for the All-State Concert band and was selected as first chair trumpet; the week-long event included a performance at Symphony Hall. In February he performed with the Combo at the Charles Mingus Festival in NYC, where the group placed first in the competition. The Jazz Ensemble was selected to perform before celebrated jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis at the Essentially Ellington Festival in NYC in May, at Lincoln Center. Alex continues to play with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and returns to Fenn on occasion to help with the band program.
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