CLASS CONNECTIONS
Pictured after the Marine Corps Marathon in October 2010, from left, Eli Bench ’07, Zach Bench ’03, Andy Bench ’04, Connor Bench ’06, Abby Wager ’07, Teryn Allen ’04, Devon Sawin ’05, Tucker Sawin ’03, and Veronica Ivey.
entered Officer Candidate School in 2008. In September 2010, he deployed to Afghanistan as a Marine Infantry Officer leading 80 men. Using a satellite phone, Emery called from Afghanistan the evening before the race to wish his family good luck. Abby ’07 and family friend Tucker Sawin ran the race as well, and Anne invited Mary Jo Bench, mother of Marine Andy Bench ’04, to also join the group. By coincidence, Andy was home on leave from Afghanistan during the marathon and joined his mother in the race. It was a memorable weekend in Washington, D.C., with strong support along the route from former Lakeside students Sandy Hull ’05, Eli Bench ’07, Zach Bench, Connor Bench ’06, Teryn Allen ’04, and Devon Sawin ’05. Chrix Finne and Moses Namkung hosted an informal gathering of young alumni in the Bay Area last fall. More than 15 alumni from the Classes of ’00, ’01, ’03, ’05, and ’06 were in attendance. Erica Bliss is working for TechnoServe on a four-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Coca-Cola to double the incomes of 17,000 small holder farmers in Uganda through mango and passion fruit sales.
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She currently manages the project in Uganda and loves her work.
Lauren Sanchez ’07 and Andrew Locke ’07, both captains of their Middlebury basketball teams.
2004
Doug Rooke, a member of the inaugural Lakeside organic chemistry class who is currently pursuing a PhD in organic chemistry at Colorado State University, had an article published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society this summer. Lakeside faculty member Hans de Grys notes, “If you’re not familiar with it, this is the premier scholarly journal in the field of chemistry. To get an article published in JACS is a prestigious accomplishment, and especially so if you are a grad student. Check it out! Particularly if you have an interest in the stereoselective syntheses of trisubstituted olefins using platinum catalysis or silylenones with geometrical complementarity.”
Owen Bennion ’05 is on his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2005
Jane Barry reports that her daughter Charlotte Austin was recently certified as a wilderness emergency medical technician (EMT). Hayley Young is the coeditor of a new PBS TV show entitled You Call That Art?! The show attempts to demystify public art for the general audience. The first pilot episode was broadcast
From left, Margo Cramer ’08 and Simone Childs-Walker ’07 at the Division III Cross Country Nationals.