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McLoughlin ’04 and Eliza Marshall ’09. Kamilah Welch writes, “In
December 2015, I spent Christmas with Nadja Shaw in Reykjavik, Iceland. In February 2016, I spent time with Jamiee Gomez in Los Angeles, Calif. In April 2016, Nadja and I went to our friend’s brother’s (Belmont Hill School alum Emeka Ekwelum) Nigerian wedding in Peabody, Mass. I finished four years of teaching high school history at two separate schools in Boston from 2012 to 2016 and am now in Johannesburg, South Africa, working to create a network of cooperatively owned businesses that will employ ex-offenders and respond to the immediate needs of the communities they inhabit.”
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Kelsey Gillen (978) 420-8408 gillen.kelsey@gmail.com ■ Brian Wilber bwilber32@gmail.com Samuel Ingraham married Elizabeth
Preysner at Trinity College on October 8, 2016. Joe Napolitano and Rob Whirty are living together in East Boston. Rob recently visited good friend and classmate William Cissel in Chicago, where they watched the Chicago air show together and had a splendid time. Bradlee Jackson moved to New York City earlier this year and is working as a project manager at London-based marketing and digital training firm,
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Top to bottom, left to right: Nadja Shaw ’08 (middle) and Kamilah Welch ’08 (right) with a friend at a wedding in April 2016 in Peabody, Mass. ■ There were many Brooksians in attendance at the July wedding of Jess Waters Duryea ’08 and Will Duryea in Ashburn Chapel. Pictured in the back row, left to right: Eliza Marshall ’09, Eric Amoroso ’04, Tim McLoughlin ’04, Academic Dean Susanna Waters, daughter Ainsley Waters, Dean of Students Willie Waters ’02 , Jamie Waters ’04. In the front row, left to right: Will Duryea (groom), Jess Waters Duryea ’08 (bride), Liz Bruno ’08, Ally Langevin ’08 and Katie Herter ’08. ■ James Hamilton ’08 (center) with his girlfriend, Liz Ziebarth, and cousin, Dylan Rathbone ’15, on Great Island in West Yarmouth, Mass. ■ In May 2016, Brooksians gathered in Brooklyn, N.Y., to celebrate Rachael Burke’s birthday. From left to right: Eliza Wehrle ’12, Rachael Burke ’10, Nicole Muto-Graves ’11 and Margaret Klein ’10. ■ In October 2015, Margaret Klein ’10 (left) and classmate Lowell Abbott ’10 (right) completed the Baltimore Marathon.
Econsultancy. She recently met up with me (Brian Wilber), as I am also living in New York City. Tink James, Chrissy Cornish and Nicole Rosmarin volunteered at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston for the fourth year in a row. Nicole is also planning to run the London Marathon in April 2017, after completing the Paris Marathon this past spring 2016. Barney Ruprecht writes, “I continue to work at RM Sotheby’s as a car expert and just finished filming a new BBC show that captures a behind-the-scenes look within the high-end collector car industry. The show will consist of 10 individual episodes documenting RM Sotheby’s car specialists’ travels around the globe and will be broadcast worldwide in 2017.”
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Rosie Berardino (978) 766-0022 rberardi92@gmail.com
I spend much of my time working at a gift shop in the heart of New Orleans, La., answering tourists’
questions like, “Where is the closest public restroom?” or my own questions like, “Why do I work here?” When I’m not battling existential nausea, I dig up okra plants as part of an agriculture apprenticeship at a local farm. You might also find me playing music on the street, performing improv comedy at a small theater or chatting on the phone with fellow Brooks alum Rachael Marie Burke. As for Rachael, when she’s not sending reading materials to me, Rosemary Lee Berardino, she works on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” as a social media coordinator. Living in New York City, Rachael performs comedy at the UCB Theater, maintains a healthy perspective on ’90s nostalgia and drops comedy gold nuggets on twitter (@thatsso_rachael). In May 2016, several Brooksians, including Margaret Klein, Nicole Muto-Graves ’11 and Eliza Wehrle ’12, gathered in Brooklyn, N.Y. to celebrate her birthday. Margaret is living in Manhattan with Julia Caffrey. In
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