MERCERSBURG MAGAZINE FALL 2015
Chris McClintick ’08 (left) and Jon Trichter ’89 (second from right) with The Hello Strangers (Larissa Chace Smith ’97/second from left and Brechyn Chace ’03/right) at an April Hello Strangers concert in New York City.
Anmargaret Warner ’10 (second from right) taught English in India during the 2014–2015 academic year as the recipient of a Fulbright grant. In March, she connected in Delhi with a group of Mercersburg students and faculty that spent two weeks in India over spring break. L–R: Nick Kelly ’15, Coleman Weibley, Jennifer Miller Smith ’97, Cara Dealy ’16, Ryan Geitner ’17, Amanda Broyles ’16, Lexi Sommerville ’17, Raj Singh ’15, Anmargaret, and Frank Rutherford ’70.
Maggie Goff is a graduate student at Arizona State University, where she received a Dean’s Fellowship to pursue a master’s degree in justice studies and social inquiry. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Manhattanville College.
Susie Klein received a Fulbright binational business fellowship to study in Mexico beginning in September 2015. Susie will spend 10 months with a multinational organization working full-time and taking business classes in the evenings.
Ethan Keiser is part of a three-person team that built StudyTree, a first-of-its-kind app that connects university students with fellow student tutors on campus. The app won first place in the innovation category and a $4,000 cash prize at Microsoft’s 2015 U.S. Imagine Cup finals.
Ryan Ma is finishing his second co-op at the startup PillPack and spent three months in San Francisco as a product design intern with Facebook. He will graduate from Northeastern University in spring 2016 with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and interactive media. “Hope I will have a chance to connect with Mercersburg alumni in the Bay Area soon!” he says.
Eliza Macdonald graduated from Bucknell University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and theatre. She is an admissions counselor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Leigh Saner has been accepted into the master’s of public health program at East Carolina University.
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Christian Brockway graduated from Bucknell University in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, economics, and mathematics. Anne Carrasco graduated from East Carolina University in May with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and has joined the Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Duke Medical Center as a clinical nurse. Sami Kebede received the Alexander J. Barton Cup, Johns Hopkins University’s highest leadership award for an undergraduate student, which is presented to a senior. He moved to New York City in June and begins medical school this fall at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Sam Rodgers, a long snapper for and co-captain of the Syracuse University football team, participated in the Buffalo Bills’ rookie minicamp in May. Stephanie Stine graduated magna cum laude from Eastern University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She is moving to Washington, D.C., to begin a master’s program in forensic psychology at George Washington University. Stephanie is an intern with the Cornwall Police Department, where she is working on developing a grant proposal for a program to assist women who have experienced sexual assault.
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Max Strauss is a public-relations intern with the Washington Redskins; his internship began this summer and lasts through the 2015 NFL season. He will graduate from the University of Miami in spring 2016. Emily Warfield has transferred to the University of Denver, where she is studying marketing. “Loving the Denver snow and environment,” she says. “Michelle Skuba Gray
and I are in an honors economics class together here—so cool, small world.”
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Sarah Firestone won the 2015 Big Ten Conference championship in javelin, setting the Big Ten and University of Nebraska school records (184 feet, 3 inches) in the process. She advanced through the NCAA West Regionals to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships in June, where she placed 17th. Later that month, Sarah (a rising junior at Nebraska) finished eighth at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships. Her sights are set on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; she has already qualified for next year’s U.S. Olympic Trials, which will be held in early July 2016.
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Amy, Savvas, and Philip Savopoulos, mother, father, and brother of Abigail Savopoulos, died May 14, 2015.
Faculty
Sue Malone joined former Mercersburg faculty member Alisa Springman and a few friends in completing a 48-mile one-day run across Utah’s Zion National Park in April.
Former Faculty
Kristy Higby and Mark Flowers officially completed their documentary film The Other Brother, and are creating a related traveling multimedia show for museums and other interested venues in the Carolinas and elsewhere. Tony Tucker is director of middle-school admissions at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, where he is the school’s basketball coach (and coaches Little League World Series star Mo’ne Davis).