CLASS NOTES 54
2007 Class Representatives David Doobin ’07 doobind@gmail.com Catherine Pfeffer ’07 kpfeffer3@aol.com Harold Liss ’03, Tracy Jacobson ’06, David Weitzman ’03, Megan Shand ’06, Matt Brodie ’06 and Sam Berlin ’06 together in San Francisco.
Emily Simon ’07 simone@lafayette.edu Andrew Somberg ’07 asomberg@gmail.com
line “Psychedelic Beach.” For more information, check out Emily’s website at www.nattypaint.com. Molly McGaughan is now an account executive with Bite Communications, a global public relations firm which deals exclusively with new technology. Scott Simontacchi is teaching high school math at The Storm King School, a boarding school in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York.
2006 Class Representatives Julie Appel ’06 appel.julie@gmail.com Jennifer Errico ’06 errico.jenniferN@gmail.com Ilana Mandelbaum ’06 ilana.mandelbaum@gmail.com Sarah Marcus ’06 sarahcmarcus@alumni.upenn.edu Asia Stewart ’06 asiamstewart@gmail.com
Sam Berlin, Matt Brodie, Tracy Jacobson, Megan Shand, Harold Liss ’03, David Weitzman ’03, and Tim Hwang ’04 enjoyed meeting up in San Francisco this past summer.
University of North Carolina biology and marine biology MS graduate student Inga Conti-Jerpe trained as an alternate aquanaut for a mission to spend 10 days in the Aquarius habitat at 50 feet below the sea on Conch Reef, off Key Largo, Florida. This group of aquanaut candidates were the first to train with full facemasks that allow voice communication during dives (which last six hours at a time!). Learn more about their work at http://aquarius.uncw.edu/missions/ 2011/06_2011/expd. Molly Dunn completed her studies in science and culture at NYU. She is currently teaching voice lessons and has decided to pursue a master’s degree this fall at NYU in voice pedagogy. Ben Taylor graduated from Colgate and is working in New York with Patagonia Sur, a for-profit conservation venture which comprises several green businesses, including an exclusive eco-retreat membership club and forestry carbon offsets. When he is not working, Ben has a band called Beecher’s Fault and has released a CD. Check out their website, www.Beechersfault.com.
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Karishma Katti stopped by Newark Academy before leaving for Chennai, Southern India to work for two months in two hospitals, one private, one charity. In September she began her second year in medical school as part of George Washington University’s seven-year medical program.
2008 Class Representatives David Frank ’08 dfrank5@u.rochester.edu Maxx Frost ’08 maxxaf@gmail.com Alexa Gruber ’08 alexa.gruber@richmond.edu Lynn Olesky ’08 lynnolesky@jhu.edu Max Staiger ’08 Mstaiger@Bowdoin.edu
James Bannon interned this summer at Chicago Mercantile Exchange in their New York office of sales and marketing. Maxx Frost is a senior at Princeton University and is majoring in economics with minors in finance and political economy. Additionally, he studied finance and financial markets at the London School of Economics, which was a tremendous experience. He continues to be very active on various university councils as well as in community service.