Liza Butler Arulampalam ’04 and Arunan Arulampalam were married July 3, 2011, in New Haven, Conn., with classmates sharing the joyous occasion: Martha Paluch ’04, Sarah Huleatt ’04, Emily Flint ’04, the bride, the groom, Meagan French ’04, Kristen Ward ’04, and Daphne Beers ’04.
toward a doctorate in educational leadership, which he hopes to complete by the end of 2012. He is now immersed in his work at the University of Kentucky. Last summer Khalil worked in Sacramento at the national headquarters of StudentsFirst, an education reform organization founded last year by Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools. Khalil was one of 17 summer associates at StudentsFirst from law schools, business schools, schools of education, and the teaching ranks. He served on the planning team, helping to chart the future direction of the organization — trying to determine where to focus to have the greatest impact. StudentsFirst is committed to ensuring that students are represented when leg-
islatures write laws and when policies are negotiated. Khalil earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and a master’s degree from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. News from Matthew Kearney: “After two years of teaching in dear old Connecticut, I accepted a new job and moved to St. Louis, Mo., to teach AP biology at the Thomas Jefferson School, a private, coeducational boarding and day school, where I am a member of the resident faculty.” After graduation from Bowdoin and completion of Officer Candidate School, which he had started in the summer after his junior year, Andrew “Boomer” Repko was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps on September 28, 2011. His training continues, and Boomer will serve as an infantry officer in command of a weapons platoon.
2007 | Reunion
Courtney Dumais graduated cum laude from Fairfield University with a degree in environmental studies (selfdesigned). News from Chris Gabriel: “I finished my studies at Parsons the New School for Design in May 2011 and chose to pursue full-time employment at a full-service creative agency specializing in social media marketing and word-of-mouth advertising instead of continu-
ing freelance work. I made the change (August 2011) because of the much wider range of client opportunities an agency position would provide. I’m currently working on projects to design and develop social media applications with brands such as Neutrogena, Harper Collins, Penguin Books, Entenmann’s, Restaurant.com, The Pampered Chef, and many others. I’m very excited to help expand Likeable Media’s development capabilities and look forward to helping more brands become Likeable.” Drew Snider and Matt Kugler ’08 competed in the Division I Lacrosse National Championship Game on Memorial Day Weekend 2011 as University of Maryland, where Drew is a midfielder, and University of Virginia, where Matt plays
SAMUEL DORISON ’07
Marshall Scholarship Will Fund Study in the United Kingdom
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AMUEL Dorison ’07, a recent graduate of Princeton University, has been awarded a 2012 Marshall Scholarship. The prestigious scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living expenses at a British university for two or three years. Sam, who focuses on the intersection of human rights and international security, is one of 36 American students selected this year for the scholarship. He graduated summa cum laude last spring from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His senior thesis on U.S. detention policy in the War on Terror received the Wilson School’s prize for the top thesis on U.S. foreign policy. Since Princeton, Sam has worked as a research assistant at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, concentrating on issues of international security.
According to a Princeton news release, Sam’s interest in issues of human rights and international security “was sparked by a lecture he heard his sophomore year given by David Remes, a Washington, D.C., attorney who handles legal cases for detainees in the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. … Dorison volunteered to assist Remes as a paralegal, obtaining a government security clearance and traveling to the Guantánamo detention center in 2010. He went again the following year, funded by a Wilson School thesis grant, to interview detainees and perform research.”
During his college years, Sam also worked in South Africa as a volunteer teacher with WorldTeach, studied economics at Oxford University, and traveled to Cambodia and Thailand to conduct research for McKinsey & Company. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sam served as vice president of the Princeton Undergraduate Student Government, a member of the University Honor Committee, co-chair of the Princeton Class of 2011 Annual Giving Campaign, and sports columnist for the student newspaper The Daily Princetonian, among other roles. He received the Spirit of Princeton Award for significant contributions to the university community.
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