CLASS NOTES movement, Café Girls. You can check them out on Facebook or at Cafegirls.squarespace.com. Sabrina Savinski moved to Austin, Texas, over the summer and is serving with AmeriCorps. There are some other ’07 Hoggers down there. She has reconnected with Anna Stevens and Alex Weinstein, who moved there together, and Caitlin Sullivan as well
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EMILY JACKE 33E Taylor Hill Rd Montague MA 01351-9508 emjacke@gmail.com SARAH-ANNE TANNER 9 Moyne Ct Ranelagh Dublin Ireland tanner.sarahanne@gmail.com
From Emily: I write to you in the middle of a blizzard. By the time you read this, I hope your plans to attend our fifth reunion will be solidified. I am looking forward to catching up with everyone. In most recent news, I had the pleasure of seeing Sarah-Anne Tanner, Julia Mix Barrington, Max Mazzone, Nikki Rossetti, Sarah Heist, Karissa Scano, and an array of alumni from other classes
at Christmas Vespers in Boston in December. The music was excellent, as usual, and we had the honor of meeting new Head of School, Peter Fayroian. I cannot quite believe it has been five years. Sarah-Anne graduated from Wesleyan last May and is moving to Ireland in January for a year. She hopes to be able to attend reunion. Julia graduated from Barnard last May and is now at Boston University working toward a Ph.D. in literature. She intends to focus on Shakespeare. Max lives and works as a realtor in Boston. Nikki graduated from Wellesley last May, and then took a cross-country road trip with her dad. She is now doing cancer research at Massachusetts General Hospital and living in Cambridge. She sees Sarah-Anne often and occasionally runs into Emily Tisdale ’07. Nikki hopes any NMHers stopping through Boston will look her up. Ben Weyers graduated with a bachelor’s in business from UConn last May and now works in Tolland, Conn., at a start-up software company called Geezeo. He loves postgraduate life and looks forward to seeing everyone at reunion. D.J. Radich completed his fifth and final year of Division I college football at Central Connecticut State University, where he was team captain. He is set to graduate in May ’13 with a degree in civil engineering. I see Jarad Weeks every now and then, as he lives and works in Greenfield, taking a break from school and doing an excellent job of managing his father’s company. He also plans to be at reunion this spring with his bagpipes. In my own news, I graduated from Middlebury College on 2/2/13 with a bachelor’s in theater with a focus in costume design and an unofficial minor in environmental studies and have no set plans for
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the future yet. I have taken up playing the ukulele and writing radio plays, but I don’t expect to profit financially from either of these activities. See you in June. From the Alumni Office: Cassandra “Cassie” Taylor is development and program coordinator for
Family Research Foundation, which provides financial relief and support to families fighting cancer. Last September, Cassie served as the event manager for Cooking Live, New York, a benefit event in which six celebrity chefs prepared a seven-course meal in front of guests. Matt Damon stepped up as a sous-chef to try his hand. The event raised over $255,000 to benefit the foundation.
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ANNA STEVENS 1329 Lapham Bay Rd Shoreham VT 05770-9612 annagstevens@yahoo.com
Much of their time was spent exploring and photographing the ruins of Havana, which have not been updated since pre-Castro revolution days. “Only a 45-minute flight from Miami, it certainly feels like you’ve traveled through a time warp, seeing all the old 1950s Fords and ‘coco taxis’ driving through the city. Cubans are extremely hospitable and thoroughly enjoy sharing a cigar or a juice box of rum while playing music on the malecón with you. The incredible stories (most Cubans were reluctant to share) of both nationalism and resistance toward their country will always be remembered, and the experience in Cuba will be forever cherished.” From the Alumni Office: Nicoleta Meleca is in grad school in the international management/CEMS program at Rotterdam School of Management in Holland with half a year in Holland and half a year in Belgium. She hopes to return to North America after she completes the program.
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GALEN ANDERSON 740 Ostrom Ave Syracuse NY 13210-2942 gjande01@syr.edu ESHALLA MERRIAM PO Box 2545 Brattleboro VT 05303-2545 eshallamerriam@gmail.com FAYETTE PHILLIPS 43 North St Upton MA 01568-1581 fayettephillips@gmail.com
From Faye: Nicolas Ogier and Michael Thorsen will both graduate from the Naval Academy this May and start training to become pilots this summer. Andrew Taylor is still at Arizona State in his senior year, working as assistant coordinator of basketball technology, his fourth season. During the season, he saw Warren Dunton, Jason Kornfeld, Jerrell and Terrell Williams ’07, Donatus Anamege ’07, Chidera Anamege ’08, Pete McMillian, and Tony Sorci ’00. He just caught up with John Carroll ’89 and some day student classmates over the holidays, including Jack Borland, Parker Cohn, Sam Watrous, and Arlie Cohn. Katy Stetson and Faye Phillips spent six weeks in rural Tanzania, working for the Maji Safi Group (clean water in Swahili), an NGO dedicated to educating rural Tanzanians about the importance of clean water in hygiene, sanitation, and disease prevention. They created a dancing and singing group for the youth of the village (about 75 children ages 6–16) that incorporates this health promotion material, and the group educates the community about what they learn through community performance. The group is still flourishing and has since doubled in size. Tara Opalinski spent last summer in Havana, Cuba, studying photography with Kade Krichko ’08 through a Northeastern University program.
ELI SPECTOR 1204 Autrey St Apt 2A Houston TX 77006-6041 elishsp@gmail.com
It is with tremendous sadness that I report that Max Kelly passed away in a car accident in early January. In light of Max’s tragic passing, let us remember, celebrate, and learn from his memory and the positive energy and spirit he carried. Paul Kim is a junior at Babson College, concentrating in computational and mathematical finance. He spent last summer interning as an equity derivatives summer analyst at Societe Generale, and now he is seeking positions in either investment banking or sales and trading. Recently, he has helped start the first professional business fraternity on his campus as vice-president of finance for Delta Sigma Pi. Becca Daen studied in Italy for six weeks in the spring, and then plans to intern at a literary agency for the summer. She is also volunteering at a battered-women’s shelter in Lancaster, Pa., and she continues to swim on the varsity team at Franklin and Marshall College. Erin Cromack was recently inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi, at UMass-Amherst. She also coached the NMH track-and-field team in the spring for the third season. Matt Goode continues to study finance and environmental studies at Gonzaga University while competing at collegiate crew. Rosa Ammon-Ciaglo enjoyed her first semester of junior year at Barnard College. She’s working toward a degree in political economy. She spent the past semester in Dakar, Senegal. Kyle Matteson enjoys studying applied mathematics and communications at Nyack College, where he will soon complete his degree. Courtney Freese is soaking in all that Florida has to offer. She just changed her major to art history with a minor in studio art, and she will intern at an art gallery in Orlando for the summer. Fallon Winters interned last summer at UBS in New York City