Alumni
Class Notes
2009 Kirby Dixon says, “You know what they say about New York City: It’s the concrete jungle where dreams are made of. And after three crazy years of living in the city that never sleeps, I cannot say that I disagree. Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013, I have been working with NBCUniversal, first as an NBC page and now as a member of the communications team at USA and Syfy networks. I can’t believe it has been seven years since graduating from Penn Charter, but I am so grateful for the lifelong friendships that I have been able to maintain along the way and am looking forward to connecting again with my former classmates in years to come! If you’re ever in New York, don’t hesitate to reach out!” Dillon J. Minacci writes, “I’ve just moved back to South Philadelphia from Nashville after seven years of working at venues, booking agencies and breweries. I’m now on the road, tour managing a group called Low Cut Connie. In August and September,
we’re heading to the West Coast for a tour and ending with a show at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia.”
2010 Elizabeth L. Thom says, “Last spring I was awarded a Thouron Award (fellowship) from the University of Pennsylvania to get my master’s in comparative social policy at the University of Oxford. I’ll be headed to Oxford in September 2016 as a member of St. Cross College and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention.”
2011
a reporter in Westchester, N.Y. She now covers daily breaking news in the Lower Hudson Valley for Verizon Fios1 News. If you’re ever in the area with a story idea, she’s got you covered!
2012 Carolyn M. Grace received the University of Pennsylvania’s James V. Saporito Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate research paper or thesis in intellectual and cultural history. A published copy of her project, “Delinquents, Rebels, Lovers, and Lost Souls: Representations of American and French Youth Culture in Film,” can be found through Penn’s libraries.
Rachel Codkind is the assistant regional dean of admissions at Franklin & Marshall College. Alexandra H. (Ali) Rosen has continued to follow her passion for storytelling. After college she became a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Rehoboth Beach and has recently taken a huge jump in her career to become
Marion Z. Hirshberg and Shane J. Carr graduated from Yale in May.
A group of OPCs came back to Penn Charter on MLK Day to volunteer at the Live Like Blaine Foundation’s captains’ practice for young female athletes in Philadelphia. They were all classmates and teammates with Blaine A. Steinberg OPC ’11. Pictured: Mackenzie L. Kramer OPC ’11, Amma D. Ntoso OPC ’11, Katherine L. Higgins OPC ’11, Laura J. Kroculick OPC ’10, Elizabeth L. Thom OPC ’10, Kellie C. Ragg OPC ’10, Linnea Cripe OPC ’10, Laura A. Kurash OPC ’09.
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