’06
Organist Charlotte Beers ’06, shown here at the Austin organ of St. John’s Episcopal Church, West Hartford, prepares to continue her musical studies on a Fulbright grant in Germany. Photo: Margaret Beers
at Columbia University in the fall.”
2002
Recent graduate Kaily Williams ’11 is flanked by her step-grandmother, Sally Clemence, and 99-year-old grandfather, Joseph McCormick, who proudly claims one son alumnus, Paul McCormick ’58, and seven grandchildren alumni: Perrin McCormick Menashi ’86; Michael McCormick ’89; Amy Williams Lunding ’94; and Adam ’92, Benjamin ’98, and Taegan ’09 Williams. In the photo are Kaily’s sister Quincy, her father and history teacher Mark and mother Myck Williams; brother-in-law Alexander Lunding ’92 holding 2-year-old Tristan; and Taegan.
history of Islamic Africa and where, more recently, he has begun some media commentary work on political events in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. His first book came out with Cambridge University Press in 2009, and he’s about to embark on a year of research in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the south of France.
1996
Scott Feldman-Peabody was the third employee hired at PrimeStar Solar, the Arvada, Colo., company that makes thin-film photovoltaic panels; and he is now the oldest employee still there. With the recent sale of the company to manufacturing giant General Electric, Scott notes: “When I was first involved, I was working at the laboratory scale, so I’ll be going from making solar cells that were less than one square centimeter to being involved with the largest solar manufacturing facility in the U.S.” Alert alumni may have noticed Scott, wearing a Loomis Chaffee T-shirt, in a New York Times photograph accompanying an article about General Electric’s solar panel manufacturing venture (Todd Woody, “G.E. Plans to Build
Largest Solar Panel Plant in the U.S.,” April 7). With a record of extraordinary success, the nonprofit organization Out2Play, started by Andrea Wenner in 2005, has announced that it will end operations next year. The organization has constructed roughly 120 playgrounds used by about 80,000 children in public elementary schools in New York City. The organization will complete about 40 more and plans to leave behind an endowment to cover some of the maintenance costs of the playgrounds in the future.
1998
Norell Hall Liddell enjoys her new career in destination management. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Jay. An update from Stephen Matzie: “I just returned from two-and-a-half years of living in India’s capital, New Delhi. I was helping the Ministry of Urban Development confront the massive influx of people into cities, improving their management, finances, and infrastructure services. Working with the urban poor on slum upgrading projects was some of the most rewarding work I’ve
ever done. I’ve just moved back to Washington, D.C., with an extra member of the family, a Delhi street-dog puppy.” Beth Sigman Somerset and her husband, Todd, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Edie Marie, April 7.
2000
Claudine Stuchell Emeott and her husband recently moved to Nepal, where Claudine serves as a Kiva Fellow with a local microfinance institution. She is also a contributing writer and editor to thekathmanduo.com. Katherine Shea received a master’s in public administration degree in international development from Cornell in May. She spent the summer of 2010 working with the World Food Programme in Uganda, and this summer she heads to Ecuador to work in a fulltime position in food security, nutrition, and gender with the organization.
2001
Kate Noonan Brochu writes that she and her husband, François, are expecting a baby boy in August. “I am an artist living in New York City,” reports Jason Kraus. “I am in a three-person exhibition at the Johann Koenig Gallery in Berlin this summer, and I begin work for my master’s degree in fine arts
Heather Hathorn Driscoll was married February 26. Among the attendees were Carla Wheeler, Elizabeth Appleyard Nielsen, Holly Williams, Kat Rorke, and Dave Ruddy. Heather writes: “LC faculty members Nancy and Joe Cleary also joined us for our special day.”
2003
Kaitlin Buttler-Ricketts has been working in Washington, D.C., for a prominent international law firm. She will be leaving Washington in August to attend graduate school at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, pursuing a master’s degree in Africa and international development.
2004
Charlotte Cunningham graduated in 2010 from the San Francisco Art Institute with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography.
2006
Charlotte Beers recently graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music with a dual degree in organ performance and German studies. After an extensive application process, she has received a Fulbright grant to continue her studies at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik (School of Advanced Study in Sacred Music) in Tübingen, Germany, where she will study with renowned organist Johannes Mayr, a specialist in improvisation. A year ago, Charlotte interned loomischaffee.org | 47