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Music man Kevin Olusola ’06, as a member of the Pentatonix a cappella group, won first place on NBC’s The Sing Off… Executive Producer Scott Pascucci ’76
has won numerous accolades for his new documentary, George Harrison: Living in a Material World… Akash Kapur ’93 has written a feature in a recent New Yorker magazine, “Becoming India”… Classmate Chrissy Bergren Orr ’93 is featured in the December issue of Runner’s World… University of Michigan sociology PhD T. Denise Joseph ’00 has been awarded a two-year post doc fellowship at Harvard with the Scholars in Health Policy Research program… Matt Patrick ’89 ran from California to New York as part of a team of Type 1 diabetics demonstrating the challenge (and triumph) of living with diabetes… The Wall Street Journal reports that the investment firm founded and led by Derwood Chase Jr. ’54 had the top “mid50
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cap” growth mutual fund out of 399 such funds through October 31… Trey Meyer ’09, twotime NEPSITT winner for Andover in boys’ tennis and winner of the Banta Award for leadership and sportsmanship, won the ITA national doubles championship playing for Williams College, also gaining All-American status… Vancouver Canucks backup goalie Corey Schneider ’04 started the team’s first rematch against the Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins in January and was on the winning side this time… Lt. Cmdr. Laurie Coffey ’95, a standout basketball player for both PA and the U.S. Naval Academy, was featured in a November article in the NCAA magazine… David Owsley ’47 was honored at the groundbreaking ceremony of a new museum of art at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind…. David Slavitt ’52 joins the 100 Club of writers who have published or contracted for that many books… Ingrid Quark Manning
’62, CEO of the Connecticut
Community Foundation, has received the Stephen R. Sasala II
Community Partnership Award in Waterbury… Ashoka founder Bill Drayton ’61 received
the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation—Spain’s highest recognition of individuals and groups who work for mutual understanding among nations… Pianist Lee Dionne ’07 was among nine fellow Yale piano students who performed an allProkofiev program at Weill Recital Hall in New York to warm reviews… Author, scientist, and adventurer Jon Turk ’63 recently was featured on the front page of the New York Times for circumventing Ellesmere Island in the Arctic Circle in a kayak. The trip took 104 days!