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Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics George Church ’72, a founding investigator of the Human Genome Project, is one of six scientists named to a high-level Obama administration initiative to map the activity of the human brain with the potential for far-reaching scientific, medical, and humanitarian implications… Kayce Freed ’76 premiered the feature film Girl Rising, created by The Documentary Group, her production company, as part of its global campaign to educate girls… Henry Smyth ’88 has been named 14th headmaster of the Gilman School in Baltimore, Md…. The Waynflete School in Portland, Maine, has appointed Geoffrey Wagg ’84 to its head of school position… Lawrence, Mass., attorney Mary McCabe ’71 has been confirmed as a circuit District Court judge in eastern Massachusetts… Collaborative Fund partner Kanyi Maqubela ’03 has been named one of the 25 most influential African Americans in Technology by Business Insider… singer Carrie St. Louis ’08 is the female lead in the rock musical Rock of Ages playing through midSeptember at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas… the number one movie in America in early February, Warm Bodies, was directed by Jonathan Levine ’94…
intrepid Deadspin reporter Jack Dickey ’09 dug out and broke the bizarre story of outstanding Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s online relationship with a woman that turned out to be a hoax… Law and life partners Ida “Pinky” Cattley Noll ’66 and Jon Noll ’66 have bought and restored the old railroad depot in Springfield, Ill., site of the newly elected Abraham Lincoln’s farewell speech as he left town to take over the reins in Washington… Anna Harrison ’13 received the Girl Scout Gold Award—the highest achievement in scouting—for constructing a greenhouse made entirely of recycled products… Ashoka founder Bill Drayton ’61 has been selected to receive the 13th annual Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award in honor of his pioneering work in social entrepreneurship and public service… David Eckman ’86 won a coveted spot on the U.S. Masters Men’s Soccer Team competing in the 19th Maccabiah in Jerusalem this summer… CEO Loni Edwards ’02 made a giant transition from practicing law at one of the
world’s most prestigious law firms to founding Stitch Collective, a fashion company that produces limited-run, luxury fashion accessories… Manchester Wheeler ’58, UMaine standout quarterback who played for the Buffalo Bills and later the Boston Patriots, has been inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame… singer-songwriter Amy Correia ’86, has a new single out called “Love Changes Everything”… Kelly Amis ’86 has enjoyed screenings of his new film Teached at the Harlem Film Festival in NYC, as well in DC, LA, and the Bay Area… supermom Laura Hsieh ’89 led the “I am a Mom” March that successfully closed down the Tamms super-maximum security prison in Illinois… aquatic creatures at the University of Rhode Island’s Marine Life Science Research Facility were rescued thanks to the heroic efforts of graduate student Danielle Debrule ’94, who also managed to avoid being electrocuted while braving the ravages of Hurricane Sandy… John Buffalo Mailer ’96 has written a play, Hello Herman, on the subject of bullying that has been made into a film with an interactive component that can be used in schools… a classmate, Jimmy Chie ’96, is executive producer of Supercapitalist, a financial thriller set in Hong Kong, featured at NYC’s Asian American Film Festival last winter… Josh Lemaitre ’97 and Alison Aiello Lemaitre ’97
won the Today Show’s “I Do…Over, Bahamas Getaway” contest, giving them a redo of their honeymoon, which was upended when the boat they were on tipped and sank. (Josh managed to save a life!)… another filmmaker, Pablo Durana ’02, won an Oscar for his camera and sound work on the winner of the best documentary short, Innocente… signing a multi-disc deal with the Sono Luminus label are cellist Meta Weiss ’05 and violinist Arianna Warsaw-Fan ’04… Anthony Green ’05 has just launched TeachYourselfThe SAT.com, a self-study program that comes a bit late for all but our kids… Chris Batchelder ’11, Zac Elder ’11, and Nick Camarda ’12 have teamed up to create an interactive video feed (the first one is the Duke-UNC Portal) that will connect a dozen campuses in the next few months… Gardy Gould ’03 shared an Oscar for his work as an assistant editor of Life of Pi… Will Lindsey ‘10, a junior at UNC, has been awarded a national 2013 Harry S. Truman Scholarship for his academic, leadership, and public service accomplishments... Elliott S. Fisher ‘70, MD, MPH, is the new director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice... and finally, your visits to Boston may have gotten a lot sweeter with the opening of famed TV-chef Ming Tsai ’82’s new restaurant, Blue Dragon, in Southie!
Alumni News Briefs… Former President George W. Bush ’64’s presidential library and museum were dedicated on April 25 on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas with all living U.S. presidents and many heads of state present. The library also houses the George W. Bush Policy Institute and the office of the George W. Bush Foundation. The inaugural issue of The Blue Guidon, the biannual newsletter of the Andover and the Military affinity group, was published in early April. To subscribe, please contact Jenny Savino at jsavino@andover.edu. Archivist Paige Roberts has completed the digitization of all issues of the Abbot yearbook, The Circle, and the Abbot alumni bulletin, as well as A Singular School, the history of Abbot Academy, written by Faculty Emerita Susan Lloyd. They are accessible at the PA archives website: http://www.noblenet.org/ paarchives/?page_id=315 or through the Internet archive (along with thousands of other publications): http://archive.org/details/phillipsacademy. Roberts has applied for an Abbot Academy Association grant to complete digitization of Phillips Academy yearbooks and magazines.
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