Class of 2008 Connor Danielowski ‘08 has moved to Dallas, TX, where he took a job as a private equity associate with The Riverside Company. Abigail Droge ‘08 is entering her third year as a Stanford PhD student in English Literature. She focuses on nineteenth-century British novels, particularly the social forces that influenced the novel and its reading practices. She is also interested in pedagogy and last year helped to design a new set of undergraduate courses in the English department to be taught by graduate students beginning this winter.
Class of 2007 Althea Kalman Fann ‘07 was accepted into the MFA program in the creative nonfiction writing program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts and started this fall. She and her husband are building their future home. Elisa Bennett von Marschall ‘07 and Sebastian von Marschall were married April 5 at St. Phillip’s by Ken Weldon (former PG chaplain - which was so special that he married them!). Her sister, Pilar Bennett ‘13, was maid of honor, and brother, Edward Bennett ‘05, was a groomsman. Grace Perry Daughtridge ‘07 is the new president of the Porter-Gaud Young Alumni Association (YAA), replacing Tejbir Dhindsa ‘08.
Ben Muller ‘08 recently proposed to his college girlfriend, Morgan Milano. The wedding is next September. Molly Perkins ‘08 is the Program Director for The First Tee of Greenville, which provides kids and teens with life skills lessons and character education through junior golf programs. She was introduced to this organization through her previous job, working in sponsorship sales for the BMW Charity Pro-Am. The First Tee is one of their benefiting charities. Through The First Tee, she does lot of work with The Boys and Girls Club in Greenville as well as other city groups. She enjoys making such a positive impact on these children’s lives! Alice Phillips ‘08 started Boston College Law School in August. To celebrate their acceptances into their respective graduate programs and their first anniversary, she and her husband, Bryce, visited Holland in July.
Katie Morgan ‘07 and Wes Lyon got engaged on May 10th, 2014, the day after she graduated from College of Charleston graduate school. They will marry on June 13, 2015. Maddie Provo ‘07 lives in NY. Since October 2012, she has been an actor / teaching artist with Story Pirates. Story Pirates is a nationally respected arts and creative writing organization founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and ideas of young people, to promote literacy as a vital part of childhood education, and to preserve the spark of youthful creativity often lost in the transition to adulthood. The cornerstone of the company is the Play/ Write Program, a series of creative writing and drama workshops that lead to a musical sketch comedy show acted by adults and comprised entirely of stories written
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