The University of Richmond graduate, Matt Palmisano ’10. Many classmates will be joining Matt in the workforce starting this summer or fall, including Jimmy Connell, an Economics Major from Villanova University who will be working with Thomson Reuters in the fall in their Financial & Risk Division as part of their Business Graduate Program. Devon Keefe will be working as a national teaching fellow for Citizen Schools of New Jersey as a double major in Education and Sociology from Smith College. While some of our classmates are starting their first jobs, others are focused on continuing their education. Rob Gelberg, an honors graduate from Macalester College, will be attending the Lir at Trinity College Dublin for his MFA in Playwriting, and Ian Pelse, a Chemistry graduate, will be continuing his studies in Chemistry as he pursues a PhD at Georgia Tech next fall. Lacey Silvano, a magna cum laude graduate from Quinnipiac University in Health Sciences, and Alexa Franco, a Duke graduate with a BS in Psychology and minors in Spanish and Biology, are both attending school in order to further their professional aspirations; Lacey will be heading back to Quinnipiac for her Masters in Occupational Therapy in the fall after interning at an occupational therapy rehab facility in Old Bridge this summer, and Alexa will be attending the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine starting in August. Congratulations to all of our other classmates who have graduated this year, and to those of you who are still in school—good luck! The Class of 2010 would also like to extend a special message to the Class of 2014—
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Seen here at sister Kendal’s graduation, Devon ’10 and Paige Barrett ’09 with their proud parents Joan and Ken Barrett, a member of the MKA Board of Trustees congratulations on your MKA graduation and best of luck over the next four years! MKA’s favorite pro basketball player Kyrie Irving continues to impress. The Cleveland Cavaliers’ point guard, who played for MKA in his freshman and sophomore years, was selected MVP of the NBA All-Star Game on February 17 after scoring 31 points, racking up 14 assists and playing with the energy required to rally the Eastern Conference from an 18-point deficit in the second half of its 163-155 victory over the West. “It was definitely special, just being out there with all these great athletes,” Irving said. “There’s so many different MVPs out there on that floor, and to be named MVP amongst all those great stars is truly an honor.”
2011 Mr. Seth Bynum 32 High Street West Orange, NJ 07052 sefaref22@gmail.com Class agent: Ms. Carina Wong 9 Deer Trail Road No. Caldwell, NJ 07006 carinamwong@gmail.com Our deepest sympathies go out to Sydney McNeal whose father, Philip McNeal, a former MKA trustee, passed away on May 27, 2014. Seth Bynum heard from Adria Spivack who has been busy this past year from being elected president of the honors society and making the dean’s list, to helping build a two story structure to the theme of Wreck It Ralph, that won second place (at Carnegie Mellon University it’s called booth). This summer she will be working in NYC as a structural packaging design intern for Fisher Price. Justin Goldsman has been very busy at the University of Miami. He was elected Greek Week Co-Chair for the entire Greek Community, helping to raise a recordbreaking $39,651.00 for United Cerebral Palsy of South Florida and breaking single day donor blood drive record. He was tapped into the Order of Omega, the oldest Greek honor society, is on the Executive Board of the chapter of Phi Delta Theta, was a student government Senator and is now Chair for Undergraduate Affairs,