MERCERSBURG MAGAZINE SPRING 2007
Nick Reed-Clarke planned to relocate to and work in New York beginning in January, and asks that all “chaps and chapesses” in the area drop him a line. “After Mercersburg, evidently, I can’t get enough of the great U.S. of A,” he writes. Vanessa Youngs, a senior at Lafayette College, is exploring her longstanding interest in the U.S. justice system through honors thesis research. Her thesis will examine how the system affects African American men, and she plans to use the findings from the study to establish the Bring Our Men Back Coalition, a non-profit organization.
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Amy Bruce studies Middle Eastern politics and Arabic at the Naval Academy. Last summer, she spent a month on the West Coast training with Marines and Aviators flying helicopters and training aircraft, and also attended summer school in Annapolis.
Nicole Brynes is a physics major and pre-med at Smith College. She spent half of the summer doing physics and cosmology research, and the other half scooping sorbet and working as a counselor. She’s been dabbling in art and dance and spends a lot of time walking in the woods. She’s seen Kenny Walker and Claire Bolton several times since graduation, “which has been lovely.” Bettina Buck is studying international relations at Johns Hopkins University. Over the summer, Bettina spent five weeks at home in Hong Kong and two months in Beijing with the CET Program. She is spending her junior year at Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) in Paris. Bettina reports that she is having an amazing time, and if anyone is in Paris, to please get in touch. Eric Burkhart is majoring in engineering and is the junior class president at Harvey Mudd College. Last summer, he built a fiber-based, mode-locking laser for educational and research purposes at Harvey Mudd. Anna Clarke is an English and art history major at Guilford College. She spent the spring semester studying poetry with Ezra Pound’s daughter in Merano, Italy, and the summer living in New York and interning with Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn. Alexa Deaton, who plays lacrosse at Ohio Wesleyan University, was named to the All-North Coast Athletic Conference second team. Alexa plays for the Bishops with fellow alumna Liz Stockdale ’02, and participated in Semester at Sea last summer. Marissa Franklin is studying English education at Dickinson College and
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is scheduled to go to England for the spring semester. She went to New Orleans last summer to do volunteer work for Hurricane Katrina relief. She also worked at a sports and arts camp in New York for middle school children. Risa Fujita is studying dance and economics at Cornell University. She spent the entire summer in Tokyo dancing, singing, and working at a department store. She looks forward to catching up with classmates while she spends the spring semester in New York City. Maggie Gindlesperger is in her third year at Penn State University, and is a double major in psychology and Spanish. She is a sister in the Delta Zeta Sorority and academic chair on its executive board. This spring, she is scheduled to spend a semester in Costa Rica. She worked last summer as a counselor for Camp Cayuga in the Pocono Mountains where she ran the drama program. Will Gridley is a business management major and a member of Alpha Epsilon at Bucknell University. Last summer, he lived in Washington and worked for Bowie Gridley Architects. He says he misses room inspections and Monday night lectures. Lindsey Harden studies communication and art history and is a member of Phi Sigma Sigma at McDaniel College. She was also asked to be a member of Sigma Alpha Pi, the National Society of Leadership and Success. Lindsey completed a summer research project on varicose veins for Diomed that was scheduled for presentation (and later, publication) last November at the American College of Phlebology in Jacksonville, Florida. Stephanie Harris spent the 2006 spring semester studying marine ecology and lemon sharks in South Caicos. She and sister Amanda Harris ’97 ran a half-marathon last summer in Reading, Pennsylvania. While studying human ecology with a focus in agriculture, botany, and environmental law at the College of the Atlantic, Leslie Heimer was given a great opportunity. She is the mate aboard the Schooner Zodiac, a wooden-hulled traditional 1924 160-foot Gloucester schooner that runs out of Seattle. She is working hard and enjoys seeing the other coast. She hoped to work in the Northwest for a while before going back to school this spring. Sarah Heine transferred to Claremont McKenna College after a year at West Point and is studying art history in Vienna. She loves the Viennese and is learning hieroglyphics. Over the summer she worked at a climbing shop and recognized the beauty of being a student—and is considering making it a profession. She thinks this is her last year swimming and has been climbing and running. Sarah was able
Members of the Class of 2004 enrolled in service academies include Todd Small, Amy Bruce, Carlos Campos, Rachel Gray, Steve DeLeonibus, Brian Schaus, and Rob Mayer.
to see classmates Erica Koch and Arjun Kalyunpur ’05; they are at Pomona College and Harvey Mudd College, respectively. Johan Hillergren is a physical engineering major at Chalmers University of Technology. Zac Hilton is a chemical engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Over the summer, he took part in a program at the University of California, Riverside, where he worked on developing new biosensors that employ functionalized CNTs. Julia Hopkins is a cinema and digital art major at Elon University, and had an internship with the Florida State Attorney’s office last summer. Her family has moved from Hagerstown to Florida. Douglas Hummel-Price is a senior at Yale University, where he says he took a few philosophy classes and really found his niche. He writes that an observation project for his Galaxies and Cosmology class took him back to nights that faculty member Dave Holzwarth ’78 would take him and Sarah Olwell to the observatory. In hindsight, he realizes how lucky the two of them were, as the equipment at the Mercersburg observatory is nearly as good as at Yale. On the non-academic side, Doug’s a cappella group, The Duke’s Men of Yale, recorded an album and competed in the national finals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella at Lincoln Center last spring. Additionally, the group performed for a school meeting in Mercersburg’s Burgin Center in January. Doug was also one of the leads in the Yale Drama main stage production of Assassins. Matt Jackson is at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, studying real estate and finance. Last summer, he worked for a Washington-based real estate developer on the private development portion of the new Washington Nationals’ ballpark, and also backpacked in Western Europe. When not at school, Matt has been building a racecar with his father and working as a crewmember for a racing team. He is also vice president of the Wharton Real Estate Club, and works for the American Land Fund (a private real
estate investment fund) and Linneman Associates (a real estate consulting firm). Katie Keller is a business management major and member of Kappa Alpha Theta at Bucknell University. She was a summer intern with Congressman Bill Shuster on Capitol Hill. She enjoyed meeting up with Millie Lee and Stephanie Grimes ’05, and she and classmate Alex Lowe volunteered at and enjoyed the President’s Dinner. E. Alanna McPartland is a French and psychology major at Georgetown University and “a home restoration expert, West Virginia style.” Ryan Niland is on the offshore sailing team at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. After taking a year off and living in Costa Rica for two months, Sarah Olwell is now studying history at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Last summer, she relaxed at home and worked as a waitress. Ryan Ostrow is a business management and economics major, and a member of Sigma Nu at Appalachian State University. Last summer, he traveled to Israel with the Hillel Birthright organization. A wildlife biology major at the University of Vermont, Katie Proudman reports that she interned with raptor rehabilitation over the summer. Jennifer Saracino studies art history and Spanish at the University of Southern California. Sabrina Sydnor studies theatre and political science at the University of Vermont. She did a theatre intensive study at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York last summer, and she and Anna Clarke planned to visit Julia Walton in Paris for New Year’s Eve in December. Mark Teroerde studies international business and economics at Rollins College, and enjoys Greek life there as a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. During the summer, he worked in South Africa as a safari guide.