Class Notes
Cross has been hard at work starting her own public relations and image consulting firm. She also interned with Baltimore Fashion Week this summer, where Sarah Gearhart was lending her modeling skills to a few designers. Sarah, who just started medical school in August, is training for the October Under Armour Half-Marathon with Jake Stern. In May, my boyfriend Zach and I moved to the Charles Village area, where I was happily surprised to find that Dan Kotowski was my across-the-street neighbor!
2007. Lauren Marks lmarks617@gmail.com It’s an exciting year for the Class of 2007, since many graduated from college this year and will embark on a new journey that may include more schooling, an exciting job opportunity or — for some — traveling. Holly Heller writes, “It has been an exciting and busy last few months for me, I graduated from Gettysburg College JIMMY BIGWOOD ‘07 with the Washington College diploma awarded to his in May and am now working in the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather John Scott in 1783. Leeward Islands for Sail Caribbean. I live aboard a large sailboat and teach International Evening: Sharing Our English section! Natalie writes, “It’s high school-aged kids how to sail. Cultures, Sharing Ourselves,” showbeen an amazing 10 months here, The students live aboard the boats cased food, music, art and cultures and it’s really hard to say goodbye. with the staff; in addition to learning of Latin America, Asia and Africa. For now, I’m heading back to the how to sail during the three weeks Natalie West just finished up her States, but I’m hoping to be back in they’re here, we find lots of time for English teaching assistantship in Nepal. Nepal again sometime soon!” This island exploration. This fall I will be stuAt the end of class 10, Nepali students summer, Katie Minton celebrated her dent teaching the first grade in Hanover, take a massive exam called the School one-year mark in Madagascar with the Pa., which I hope will be the beginning Leaving Certificate (SLC), which basiPeace Corps! She’s been busy working of a long career.” Not far from Gettyscally determines the rest of their lives. on AIDS and public health projects, burg, Chiara Olivi graduated from Natalie’s class from last year just took including painting a giant world map Dickinson College with a major in Spanthe SLC in March and all passed the at her village’s middle school. Jackie ish and double minor in Latin American studies and Italian. NATALIE WEST ‘06 with some of her students from her English teaching assistantship in Nepal. For the summer she worked through
Americorps as a community organizer for Baltimore Center for Green Careers, a branch of the nonprofit organization Civic Works. She says, “It is a wonderful organization with a great mission and I hope to continue with this job!” Two of our fellow graduates, Tanya Tavassolie and Prescott McWilliams, graduated from Franklin & Marshall College this year. Tanya is now working as a research assistant in the Child Development Lab at the University of Maryland. She says, “I am specifically working on an ‘action understanding’ project with infants to better understand how infants learn about goaldirected behavior. I hope to go to graduate school for child development or educational psychology in a couple years.” Prescott says, “I graduated magna cum laude with a major in chemistry and a minor in French Horn performance. From my humble roots in the pit orchestras of Friends musicals, I rose to the role of conductor for the 2011 F&M presentation of ‘Seussical the Musical.’ I will start dental school at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall and am proud to have a Quaker mascot once again!” Natalie Zinkham just graduated from Georgetown University. Over the next two years she will be teaching middle school Spanish in Jackson, as part of Teach for America’s Mississippi Delta Corps. Several of our other classmates will be teaching English abroad, including Perkins DeMuth, who just graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in political science with a focus in political theory. He will be teaching in Europe for a year. Quinn Fusting graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in comparative literature and French studies. In July, Quinn’s short story, “Belly,” won The Pratt Contemporaries’ inaugural Fiction Storytellers Award. To read “Belly,” go to:
LAURA RESNICK ‘07 setting up sunflowers and herbs for a farmer’s
market in Union Square, Somerville, Mass., as part of her job at Massachusetts Audubon’s Drumlin Farm.
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