CLASS NOTES encourages the teens it serves to share the information they learn with their peers. She’ll finish her service in November and then plans to look for a job, possibly in DC.
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Mike Levin
mlevin23@gmail.com Emma Bartlett writes, “I just
got back from a year in Paris. Nothing beats living and studying in France and traveling and biking all around Class of ‘04’s Laura Zager and Alex Nelson taking in Europe. Oh wait, scratch that: an O’s game. a second summer in beautiful Vermont to finish my Middlebury French master’s and then teaching high school French at Baltimore’s very own Bryn Mawr School. The adventures never end!” Laura Zager graduated from the George Washington University in May of 2008 with a B.A. in psychology and minor in sociology. “I’ve been working in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Mercy Hospital since November 2008 and am enrolled to take prerequisite classes so I can go back to school to be a physician’s assistant. Charlie Totten began Law School at the University of Baltimore in August after working at a New York law firm for the past year. Charlie also recently worked at Whitlows in Arlington for six months. Nick Colvin got a job with BB&T and went through Emma Bartlett ’04 at the Eiffel Tower during her year a six-month leadership develof studying in Paris. opment training program in Winston-Salem, NC. He’s now of their lives and serving them as a friend a corporate credit officer in the equipand mentor. Before leaving last winter, the ment finance headquarters in Towson. VISEDAL Partnership was founded Shruti Kumar writes “I’ve been working at (VISEDAL is from Spanish words for dress Yale with a group of professors for a think me, educate me, feed me.) Now, VISEDAL pays for tuition, school supplies and food stipends for 20 young children, with local agents overseeing their academic and social progress. Stephen Sauder will be starting a master’s degree in disaster and emergency management in the fall at York University in Toronto. Lily Mendelson is still in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. She’s working as a national coordinator for a country-wide initiative called Escojo Mi Vida, which works with teenagers, teaching such life Charlotte Baldwin ’04 and sister Hillary skills as self-esteem, decision-making, Baldwin Ruley ’95 share a sweet pregnancy prevention, AIDS, and drug moment with Hillary’s daughter, and alcohol awareness. The program also Hannah.
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tank called the Yale Economic Growth Center. We focus on various development economics projects in Ghana, South India and Peru. The twist is that with a fouryear economics Ph.D. probable in the near future after completing this program, I decided to take time to devote just to the study of music before continuing on the other path. So this fall I started the film scoring program at NYU, and that’s what I’ll be doing for the next year.” Alyson Bastinelli writes, “I backpacked through Europe this summer, then moved to Australia in October to work and explore through May 2010. I’m getting it all out of my system before I go broke and get a real job!” Alexandra Nelson reports, “I bought a house in Baltimore County in July 2008 and have been living there with roommates for a year. I am a licensed chiropractic assistant and have been working for an area chiropractor since October 2008. I just registered to begin prerequisite classes at CCBC (with Laura Zager) in order to apply for various physician assistant master’s programs around the country.” Alanah Webb writes, “After graduating from Howard University, where I played lacrosse, I’ve been doing research in a cardiovascular biochemistry lab at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute for the past year. I will hopefully have a scientific publication by the end of the year. I am also now in the process of applying to medical school for 2010. Also, Lindsey Syropolous and I will be living together soon!” Rachel Fitz just finished her master’s degree in social work at Washington University, where she specialized in expressive therapy, life review and pediatric hospice. She lived in Washington, DC for the summer before moving to Israel in October, where she will spend five months working with refugees seeking asylum, and will also be in India for four months doing various social justice work. She also worked at The Reef in Adams Morgan alongside her brother, Sam Fitz ’02. Vanny Khoo has been working for the Maryland Department of Vital Records for three years now and is also earning a master’s degree in healthcare administration at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Alex Broekhof finished his degree in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins and bought a one-way ticket to Amsterdam this summer. Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett works for the American Federation of Teachers and is interested in graduate programs in conflict resolution. His Friends School education must have made an impact! Ben Barchey writes, “I just graduated from Whittier in May 2009. I earned a degree in economics and was captain of the lacrosse team—all good things. I’m now living in Orange County, CA, working for a wealth/financial advis-